The network Twitter declared open war on the password during its developer conference in San Francisco , which announced a new system for registering applications through the mobile phone number .
Jeff Seibert , director of mobile platforms popular social network, unveiled Digits ., a product that Twitter already offers free in 28 languages in 216 countries
Digits allow mobile application developers to offer users a three step process: A screen with the option to register via a mobile device; a screen to enter the phone number and another to enter the confirmation number that Twitter sent through a text message and it can only be used once.
Seibert said he was convinced that e l system is better than the combination of e-mail and password you use at present and that is, he said, forgettable, often difficult to type on mobile phones and susceptible to hacking .
Good reception
Developers who attended the conference as Derek Hearn , a young technologist Chicago, welcomed the product. “Digits generates me curious. We already do something similar in our company,” Hearn, who works for MeetBall , a company that shares the location of users who wish to mobile devices said.
Cameron Hendrix , a young mobile application developer from New York who works at a digital education company, also welcomed the initiative he described as “safer “ that the current universal system passwords.
Twitter also stressed that The system is especially useful in developing countries in which often The only way to access the Internet is through mobile.
get away with it, and make developers around the world adopt widely Digits, Twitter could end the current reign password .
Fabric and Crashlytics
Beyond Digits, Twitter stressed today Fabric , a new platform that aims to facilitate the work of more than 1,000 developers who attended the conference in San Francisco.
“is the best, and simplest, to develop the best applications” , Twitter CEO said today at the start of the conference, Dick Costolo .
The social network also advertised Crashlytics , that offers developers a free system to check if the application you are developing have problems or freezes .
Twitter and urgent news
The meeting in San Francisco was attended by representatives of media as Raju Narisetti , vice president of News Corporation, who praised Twitter for platform have become the main to identify Urgent News .
Narisetti said the social network is a great platform to capture audience and said, in that sense, financial newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the News Group Corporation, won 47% of traffic in social networks through Twitter .
Twitter’s relationship with the media has been debated following the resignation this month of the head of the news division, Vivian Schiller , who resigned a year after taking office in the midst of a series of changes among senior managers of the social network.
During his brief stay in the social network executive, who previously worked in senior positions within the NBC and the American system of public radio NPR worked with media organizations to help them integrate the social network in their coverage.
The former head of the news division Twitter worked with Dataminr , a data management company based in New York, which developed the first news product for social network . The product, which debuted last month, examines around 500 million ‘tweets’ which are generated every day and identifies trends that may become news .
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