---
title: "Twitter and OpenID"
description: "<p><a href="http://scripting.com/">Dave Winer</a> <a href="http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/24/saturdayTwitterThoughts.html">says</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“[…] we could make Twitter the open identity system we’ve been looking for. Make your Twitter ID the one that you use to log on to other service […]”</p></blockquote>
<p>I say let <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> support <a href="http://openid.net">OpenID</a> with all of the good <a href="http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/Relying_Party_Best_Practices">Relaying Party Best Practices</a> including (but not limited to):</p>
<ul>
<li>Ability to associate an existing account with an OpenID</li>
<li>Ability to switch to another OpenID (sort of a password recovery for OpenID)</li>
<li>Ability to create a new account directly with an external (non Twitter) OpenID (be a standard relaying party)</li>
</ul>
<p>If they want to, they can also be an OpenID provider (which should be good for them, of course ;-) ).</p>"
doc_version: "1"
last_updated: "2017-06-02"
date: 2007-03-25
tags: [dave-winer, distributed-identity, Identity, OpenID, scriptingnews, twitter]
canonical: "https://eran.sandler.co.il/2007/03/25/twitter-and-openid/"
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[Dave Winer][1] [says][2]:

> &#8220;[&#8230;] we could make Twitter the open identity system we&#8217;ve been looking for. Make your Twitter ID the one that you use to log on to other service [&#8230;]&#8221;

I say let [Twitter][3] support [OpenID][4] with all of the good [Relaying Party Best Practices][5] including (but not limited to):

  * Ability to associate an existing account with an OpenID
  * Ability to switch to another OpenID (sort of a password recovery for OpenID)
  * Ability to create a new account directly with an external (non Twitter) OpenID (be a standard relaying party)

If they want to, they can also be an OpenID provider (which should be good for them, of course ;-) ).

 [1]: http://scripting.com/
 [2]: http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/24/saturdayTwitterThoughts.html
 [3]: http://twitter.com/
 [4]: http://openid.net
 [5]: http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/Relying_Party_Best_Practices