Digg to Add a Plethora of Login Options, Google, Facebook, Twitter

Digg is planning to launch a major revamp of the site and now it's shedding more details on the login part. The site says a great focus was on supporting outside services as identity providers to make it easier for users to register for Digg. The new Digg will support five providers, though practically a lot more since it is also adding support for OpenID. The other providers are Google, Facebook (which is already available), Yahoo and Twitter. The site is also announcing support for Twitter's upcoming @anywhere platform.

"@anywhere makes it easier for site owners to have rich integrations with Twitter without having to visit twitter.com. Digg is looking forward to supporting @anywhere in our upcoming release," Digg's Bill Shupp announced. "But that's not all we've been up to on the third party integration front. Before we started down the path of re-writing our infrastructure last fall, we decided to take a fresh look at our login and registration options."

In order to determine which services to support, Digg held a survey asking the users to select their preferred login solution. The survey proved quite popular, 14,000 people answered it, but the results are quite predictable.

Google proved to be the most popular option, with 87.9 percent of users wanting it, followed by Facebook with 75.5 percent, Yahoo with 51.9 percent, and Twitter with 51.1 percent. Other options proved to be less popular and won't be available by default.

However, thanks to the OpenID support and the fact that basically all major sites have implemented it in one form or another, the less popular options like, MySpace, AOL and myOpenID credentials can also be used to register and log into Digg. The site says that a big emphasis was laid on openness, which is why it preferred using OpenID but also OAuth for the login system.