Twitter: @Anywhere platform to help integration

Twitter is to introduce a new platform called @anywhere which will help web sites to integrate Twitter features. @Anywhere will take many of the Twitter API functions/services and make them available to web sites by adding a couple of lines of javascript. Some of the mentioned uses of this platform include:

• being able to sign-in to third party web sites with your Twitter ID
• a journalist’s byline could show their Twitter profile and let anyone follow them from their news article
• being able to tweet about a video from its YouTube page
• finding new Twitter users/accounts from the Yahoo home page

When it launches, several sites have signed up to partner @Anywhere, including Yahoo, Bing and YouTube, however Google has not signed up to be an official partner.

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