OAUTH UPDATE

OAuth is now live on Twibbon. Read our post about it here: http://blog.twibbon.com/oauth-is-live

This means that you'll never have to give your login details to Twibbon.com anymore, only Twitter.

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Twibbon needs you to enter your Twitter username and password in order to update your Twitter profile image and send the support tweet for the cause.

When you enter your username and password into Twibbon we pass these details directly to Twitter. Together with your credentials we send Twitter your new profile image (including your Twibbon!) and text for the tweet to say you have joined your Twibbon cause. Twitter takes care of the rest.

That’s it.

Your login details are not used for anything else and nor are they stored. This approach has also been adopted by the popular TwitPic service, although they also save your details for your convenience – we don’t do that; that’s why you need to keep entering them!

As we do not store your details you can be certain that we will not share them with anyone else nor can we perform any unauthorised tweeting on your behalf.

So add your Twibbons at will. Oh, and please tell your friends!

OAuth
We will shortly be offering OAuth as alternative method for logging in to Twibbon. The advantage of using this will be that we can keep you logged in and therefore save you time. It also means that you will pass your credentials directly to Twitter yourself rather than via Twibbon.

The disadvantage of this is that it takes a few more steps for you to login this way and relies entirely on this aspect of the Twitter service being available – which has caused problems for some service providers in the past. This is why we have not started out with this implementation and are offering it as an alternative rather than the primary means to get a Twibbon.

Thanks for continuing to use Twibbon!

The Twibbon Team