Is Twitter Really Apple iOS 5's Identify Server? Not Really

Facebook and Twitter have become two of the most common identity authentication services. Many web services now let you login to their system using your Facebook or Twitter login authentication. What are essentially side-effect add-ons to these social networking services have succeeded where dedicated identify efforts like Microsoft’s Passport and Open ID failed.

Some of have said Twitter’s integration into Apple’s upcoming iOS 5 makes it the default identity server. However, so far, that does not seem to be the case.

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