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title: Authenticating with social media providers
description: You can authenticate using social media providers as an external identity provider (IdP) using PingOne and PingFederate.
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page_id: solution-guides:customer_use_cases:htg_authn_with_social_media
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/solution-guides/customer_use_cases/htg_authn_with_social_media.html
revdate: April 13, 2025
page_aliases: ["customer_use_cases:htg_authn_with_social_media_p1.adoc", "customer_use_cases:htg_authn_with_social_media_pf.adoc"]
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  authenticating-with-social-media-providers-using-pingone: Authenticating with social media providers using PingOne
  authenticating-with-social-media-providers-using-pingfederate: Authenticating with social media providers using PingFederate
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# Authenticating with social media providers

You can authenticate using social media providers as an external identity provider (IdP) using PingOne and PingFederate.

## Authenticating with social media providers using PingOne

Using an external IdP allows linked users to authenticate using the credentials provided by the external IdP. Learn more about using external IdPs with PingOne in [Identity providers](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/integrations/p1_external_idps.html).

Learn more about how to add the following social media providers as an external IdP using PingOne:

* [Amazon](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/integrations/p1_add_idp_amazon_overview.html)

* [Apple](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/integrations/p1_add_idp_apple_prereqs.html)

* [Facebook](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/integrations/p1_addidentityproviderfacebook.html)

* [Google](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/integrations/p1_addidentityprovidergoogle.html)

* [LinkedIn](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/integrations/p1_add_idp_linkedin_prereqs.html)

* [Twitter](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/integrations/p1_add_idp_twitter_prereqs.html)

* [Yahoo](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/integrations/p1_add_idp_yahoo_prereqs.html)

## Authenticating with social media providers using PingFederate

Ping Identity provides several login integration kits that allow PingFederate to coordinate single sign-on (SSO) by using third-party services as IdPs.

### Component

PingFederate 10.3

### Additional information

Learn more in the following topics:

* [Amazon Login Integration Kit](https://docs.pingidentity.com/integrations/amazon/amazon_login_integration_kit/pf_amazon_cic.html)

* [Apple Login Integration Kit](https://docs.pingidentity.com/integrations/apple/pf_apple_cic.html)

* [Facebook Login Integration Kit](https://docs.pingidentity.com/integrations/facebook/facebook_login_integration_kit/pf_facebook_cic.html)

* [Google Login Integration Kit](https://docs.pingidentity.com/integrations/google/google_login_integration_kit/pf_google_cic.html)

* [LinkedIn Login Integration Kit](https://docs.pingidentity.com/integrations/linkedin/pf_linkedin_cic.html)

* [Twitter Login Integration Kit](https://docs.pingidentity.com/integrations/twitter/pf_twitter_cic.html)