The battle between Facebook and Twitter lives on. Twitter has released a new Sign In feature that looks a lot like the Facebook Connect offering, enabling users of a third party site to sign in using their Twitter credentials. It’s not too big of a jump for Twitter, considering it already had sign in capabilities for third party applications. But what the new Sign In feature offers is a more direct way in which to interact with Twitter, while providing an alternative for other third party sites that may already have an established user base and may not even have direct interactivity with Twitter from a user perspective.

The biggest difference between Facebook Connect and Twitter Sign In is the fact that Facebook Connect has a different platform approach than Twitter. This is mainly because Facebook is a social network in the more traditional sense of the term, with a great deal of privacy settings and a closed-in approach to media sharing. Twitter on the other hand, has a very open format for users. The only major privacy setting is to make your tweets inaccessible to the public, and displayed only to those you’ve selected for sharing your status updates. The open flow of communication Twitter presents in a more transparent form automatically presents cause for large disparity between the two platform offerings when i comes to comparing Twitter Sign In and Facebook Connect.

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