X (Twitter) sign-in integration
Customers, partners and other external learners sign in to Intellum with their X account. X passes the person’s email to Intellum, and Intellum uses it to identify them.
Common uses of X sign-in
- Public audiences sign in to your academy with an X account they already have, with one less password to create.
- Partners and other external learners reach training without an account in your company’s identity provider.
How X sign-in works
X sign-in uses social OAuth. A person signs in with their X account, and X passes their email to Intellum. Intellum uses that email as the identifier for the person’s account.
How to set up X sign-in
Intellum sets up X sign-in for your site.
- An X account for each person who signs in this way
- An email on that account, which identifies the person in Intellum
How X sign-in for Intellum handles access and data
- Authentication: social OAuth with X.
- Data: the person’s email passes from X to Intellum and identifies the person.
- Accounts: admins remove accounts through the API or a recurring user file.
What to know about X sign-in
- X is the new name for Twitter. People sign in with the same account.
- Social sign-in is built for external audiences. For employees, connect your identity provider through SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect.
Questions about X sign-in
Yes. X sign-in uses social OAuth, so customers, partners and other external learners sign in with an X account they already have.
Yes. Twitter is now called X, and people sign in to Intellum with the same account they used before the name change.
No. X sign-in is meant for external audiences, such as customers and partners. For employees, connect your identity provider, such as Okta or Microsoft Entra ID, through SAML 2.0 single sign-on.
The person’s email. X passes it to Intellum, which uses it as the identifier for that person’s account, and data moves one way, from X to Intellum.
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