Integration between Twitter and Facebook Status
Posted by joe, Sun Sep 30 11:01:00 UTC 2007
You can now update your Facebook status via Twitter.
After the launch of an official Twitter application on Facebook, observations on several blogs noting the similarity between Twitter updates and Facebook statuses, and even a quickly-silenced hack for integrating the two services, blognation Japan reports that the much-anticipated integration of the two platforms has begun.
Previously, you could update your Twitter through Facebook; now the communication goes in both directions.
Facebook has also taken steps to solve the problem of Twitter updates flooding the already-crowded News Feed on its homepages:
Please be aware if you Twitter often, the updates are NOT automatic. The Twitter app in Facebook updates approximately every 30 minutes or so which means if you Twitter often, every update may not immediately appear right away.
Note: I think it does update both Twitter and Facebook status immediately if you post your update via the Twitter FB app itself, instead of Twitterrific or the like.
It appears that the only way to disable this new feature, once you've enabled it, is to go to the Facebook application settings page, edit your settings for Twitter, and uncheck the box that says "Status Updates: Application may update my status without notifying me." To re-enable it, you have to go back to the Twitter app itself.
Also, this does not solve the problem of updates that would be nonsensical outside of Twitter (e.g. direct messages to your Twitter friends).
Definitely a work-in-progress, but updates that fit within the vanilla "status update" paradigm will work well.
For example, my latest update — "Going to Hard Times Cafe for chili and to meet some local entrepreneurs." — fits seamlessly into both Facebook's "Joe is ..." and Twitter's "What are you doing?" contexts.
It is about time :)
Apparently they realized that there was a body of people who found this to be a useful function (with the high adoption rate of my original hack as proof), and decided to FINALLY add it.
Nice.
Also, thank you for referencing my original post.
Great to see the social networks starting to hold hands . Pownce now shows Zooomr images and You Tube Video inline. Tried to enable this new feature in FB bt recieved an error. Will try it later Thanks again for the post .
It doesn´t work for me, I think is not well implemented yet but I like that option, because I have to update only one service and not two or three.
All hail twitter! the dominate status platform. Glad FB finally came around. I guess a few fewer page views is better than a few thousand pissed off users.
I have used my Social Security number while on the Internet so now I am afraid to make any credit card purchases on-line because I think it will make my credit card account vulnerable. Right now I’m thinking about applying for a credit card online but I’m not sure that it is safe. Do you now what kind of security system they use at
balance trasnfer card
Hello! Could you help me with advice? There is nobody else to ask. I have never had a credit card before but now I am eager to apply for a credit card online. How to make the right choice and know for sure that the credit card suits me? And do you know anything about
american express blue card 0%apr balance transfer
Hi there, I need an easy to apply web site. I mean, this with credit card offers. A chick told me there’s what I search for. I’ll thank you if you tell me – is it really so good? She said it’s
zero balance transfer cards until paid