[OSM-dev] Suggestion for Addition of Twitter Authentication Provider to Open Street Map

[Tom Hughes]

On 28/03/2023 16:08, Adam Jamiu wrote:
> I am writing to suggest the addition of a Twitter authentication 
> provider to open street map project. As you are aware, authentication is 
> a critical component of any application, and open street map iscurrently 
> relying on some giant authentication provider for user authentication 
> namely, openID, google, facebook. wikipedia, windows live and github.

It was implemented years ago but not merged because LWG were not
happy with the twitter terms and conditions. History is in:

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/989

I can't imagine the terms will have improved under the new
management and indeed twitter's importance is rapidly diminishing
so this would be a strange time to reconsider it when twitter
will likely be bust within a year or two.

Tom

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