Twitter Now Supported in Friend Connect, Facebook Connect Support Coming Soon
Today is one of those days when many of the TechMeme headlines are by people in the news trying to clarify the news.
Earlier today, Google announced that it had implemented the Twitter API inside Friend Connect, allowing users to connect to Twitter through Friend Connect gadgets on any site that has added them. As a result, some tech journalists have cast the move as a major political play by Twitter in the chess game between Facebook, Google, MySpace, and others.
But while there are a lot of angles in this game, this one has been taken a bit out of context. While Google has added Twitter support inside Friend Connect, this is not the same thing as Twitter “choosing” Friend Connect over Facebook, MySpace, or anyone else for identity provision or authentication. Like many others, Twitter is planning on adding Facebook Connect support soon, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see them support additional identity providers in the future.
In order to clarify the situation, Twitter CEO Evan Williams said, “For the record: Twitter did not ‘choose Google, not Facebook.’ We’re working with both. We have more to do on the FB side before launch.”
December 15th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Cool – i was wondering when Twitter will support Facebook connect. BTW you guys have a super awesome site on Facebook. We referred it and have included a post of Sahana Mysore (with her pic) in our Interactive Visual on Facebook Connect @ http://vizedu.com/2008/12/facebook-connect-explained/
Keep up the great work
December 16th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Looking forward to the Twitter integration, if anyone on the Facebook development team is reading I would like to see the ability to share individual posts and not just whole blogs! Also I agree with Sandeep, great site! :)
December 16th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Great news! It will be interesting to see what happens next!
December 16th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
No doubt, even for those of us that follow this stuff, it was confusing trying to figure out who twitter had partnered with :).
December 17th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
[...] Twitter Now Supported in Friend Connect, Facebook Connect Support Coming Soon [...]
January 29th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Testing Facebook connection.
April 7th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
How come my pictures don’t show, my friends profile pics my profile pic? I lost some of my pics
please respond ASAP
thank you
Diana