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As far as I can tell, the login doesn't actually do anything...I think all this kid is claiming is that he made the login page I guess

A lot of people are signing up though. Doens't work for you?

Ah, you should specify that you need to make an account. For some reason I was thinking this might somehow attempt to do SSO and grab your actual twitter data

Lemme just give my actual Twitter login details to some guy I've never heard of.

You can just type anything. Obviously we don't have access to twitter's db

Yeah, I realize that.

Its called OAuth

yes, but we're not building a client for twitter. it's a clone :)

Just type any old crap in the registration box and you'll be able to see the authenticated user view.

well it'd be hard to make twitter without having handlers, etc., but you can put a random email address :) we're not doing this to collect emails

So this is your site? That you submitted? Maybe should have been a Show HN?

it's one of our users.

Could have been a SHOW HN indeed, even though it's more about the idea that you can do that without code than showing twitter