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Twitter just “leaked” their “sign in w/ Twitter Connect Feature.  Like other master login services (Facebook, MySpace and Open ID being the biggest and earliest), Twitter will now allow you to user your Twitter login to access other accounts you may have that are in no way tied to Twitter.  This is major in the Techie and early adopter worlds.

Facebook Connect has a leg-up on this, as there are hundreds of millions of people already actively using their platform every day.  But, Twitter may have timed their introduction perfectly.  Recently their brand has been all over the Internet and traditional media.  The spot light is now on Twitter and they couldn’t be happier.

You may be asking yourself, “Why wouldn’t I just use Facebook to sign in, rather than Twitter?”  That’s a good question.  We’ve not found any reasons why we’d use Twitter over Facebook for login.  It could turnout to be Coke vs. Pepsi with no clear winner.

What has techies buzzing is the fact that Twitter is an open environment where Facebook is closed like the door on a safe.  That means that all Facebook applications operate only within Facebook.  Twitter differs because all of it’s associated applications run outside of Twitter, but connect on the back-end.  That’s huge.  It ensures that Twitter remains simple.

At the end of the day, tech gurus feel that it is an “arms race” with the end goal being the control over the largest amount of users.  So far Facebook is in the lead.  Let’s wait and see if Twitter’s simplicity will beat them in the long run.