Under Oauth, a user must leave a native application, launch a browser, go to Twitter, and enter his or her credentials there.

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Now, however, Twitter is forcing all developers, by the end of the month, over to a more recently developed protocol named Oauth.

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Users will be able to authorize an application via a protocol called OAuth and allow it to send actions to Digg on their behalf.

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Oauth interrupts the user experience, making it awful.

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It uses the same standard protocols (such as OAuth) as its social SSO relatives, but instead of posting meals or books to your feed it sends payment information to shops through a secure channel.

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