Twitter Launches Digits : sign in to apps with your phone number in Twitter's 'Digits

 

 

Passwords? Those are old hat, according to Twitter, which just launched a new service called Digits.
The service, announced at Twitter's first developer conference in San Francisco, lets users sign in to apps using their phone numbers.

Back to one-step

It's like the two-step authentication offered by many apps and services, which asks users to enter a code sent by SMS when they sign in on new devices - except Digits skips the first step.
Twitter says Digits uses the social network's own security infrastructure and that signing in is both "simple" and "safe.