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Are there any well-known websites that use Facebook connect or Twitter OAuth as the only sign-in solution without its own sign-in password?

5th December 2010

My answer to Are there any well-known websites that use Facebook connect or Twitter OAuth as the only sign-in solution without its own sign-in password? on Quora

Our site http://lanyrd.com/ only accepts Twitter OAuth logins (at least for the moment).

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