Benefits of implementing OAuth

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Published on 2010-06-12T00:20:50Z Indexed on 2010/06/12 1:42 UTC
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From a webservice provider point of view what is the benefit of asking users to create an account or login using 3rd party web service provider (e.g: Twitter or facebook) to log into your site with?

Wouldn't it be easier to ask the user to provide their twitter or facebook login and use that to pull the user's twitter or facebook data?

It is safer to use OAuth than giving some one the internet our twitter or facebook login credential. But, I can't figure out the benefit from the web service point of view.

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