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Facebook Working on New Twitter Integration?
July 15th, 2009
| By Justin Smith | 67 Comments » |
While it’s too early to tell exactly what this means, Facebook engineer Blake Ross today posted a “test” tweet from a Twitter application called “Penguin FB” that resides on Facebook development servers. One interesting possibility: Facebook is working on a new, more native Twitter integration that would let users publish updates to Twitter automatically from Facebook.
If that is indeed the case, it would be an interesting move by Facebook. Allowing users to more easily link their Facebook updates with other services like Twitter could potentially make Facebook one of the largest Twitter applications. If only a few million Facebook users were to publish their status updates to Twitter, Facebook could become the largest source of tweets – an interesting inversion of the way Twitter is used as a Facebook application by many users today.
Of course, all of this is still speculation. When contacted, Facebook said it doesn’t have any comment on the “Penguin FB” project. (Update: Ross has since deleted the tweet.)
Nevertheless, the idea correlates with Facebook’s strategy in recent months to make status updates and streams more open and public. Will Facebook make it easy for users to automatically syndicate their public posts to any number of other services? It could very well make a lot of sense, and Twitter would be one of the best places to start.
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July 15th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Why bother? there’s an app for that
July 15th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
[...] Facebook Working on New Twitter Integration?… Inside Facebook [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
The better observation here is that it was posted by Blake Ross, the co-founder/developer of FireFox who began working at FaceBook after his newer startup Parakey was acquired. I don’t think he would be “Working on the @facebook gamechanger with @davemorin” with a regular FB app.
July 15th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
July 15th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Very intelligent move from Facebook, I wonder how they will battle Google Wave?
July 15th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I dunno what facebook is up-to with twitter, but
there is a desktop app called Fosimo on Facebook and recently it has a Twitter version called Fosimo.TR (looks like a plug isn’t it)
July 15th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
[...] to Inside Facebook, the blue giant may be working on a native Twitter tweetmeme_url = [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
[...] to Inside Facebook, the blue giant may be working on a native Twitter tweetmeme_url = [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
[...] to Inside Facebook, the blue giant may be working on a native Twitter tweetmeme_url = [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I still think Selective Twitter is the best application for updating Facebook from Twitter, but updating Twitter from Facebook seems problematic. Different audiences, for starters, and why would you cut your word count down into 140 characters when you could just do that on the browser interface for Twitter?
Just some thoughts on the subject. Facebook seems to be doing everything it can to overrun Twitter, but it’s sort of pointless.
July 15th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Very good indeed. That’s what I have been looking for a while
July 15th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
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July 15th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
[...] its service work rather smoothly with the microblogging service. Earlier today, Inside Facebook spotted a tweet from Facebook developer Blake Ross, who said “test” from a service called “penguin [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
[...] yang beredar saat ini adalah Facebook sedang mengembangkan aplikasi Twitter native yang memungkinkan pengguna mengupdate status Twitternya via Facebook. Hal [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
[...] its assist impact kinda smoothly with the microblogging service. Earlier today, Inside Facebook spotted a sound from Facebook developer Blake Ross, who said “test” from a assist titled [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 2:21 am
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 2:45 am
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 3:39 am
[...] sogar der Möglichkeit einen Status-Update synchron auf Facebook und Twitter zu veröffentlichen? Darauf spekuliert Justin Smith von Inside Facebook seitdem. Ein weiteres Indiz: Nachdem Smith Facebook um [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 4:18 am
awesome !! luv twitter a lot …
a better integration will be great
July 16th, 2009 at 4:56 am
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July 16th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Thanks for the update. One of the reasons I like FB is that I can read/write in a normal way. Tweets have begun to look like text messages. While just about all my friends who use twitter also use FB, the reverse is not true.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:21 am
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 6:29 am
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 7:02 am
[...] want to follow you on Twitter to follow you and what to be careful of in wooing them.Related posts:Facebook Working on New Twitter Integration?Tweeting via Facebook?Penguin FB: A truce offering or Trojan Horse from Facebook to [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 7:09 am
[...] Facebook Working on New Twitter Integration? " One interesting possibility: Facebook is working on a new, more native Twitter integration that would let users publish updates to Twitter automatically from Facebook. If that is indeed the case, it would be an interesting move by Facebook. Allowing users to more easily link their Facebook updates with other services like Twitter could potentially make Facebook one of the largest Twitter applications. If only a few million Facebook users were to publish their status updates to Twitter, Facebook could become the largest source of tweets – an interesting inversion of the way Twitter is used as a Facebook application by many users today." This would be really cool. (tags: facebook twitter socialmedia socialnetwork socialnetworking microblogging) [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 7:25 am
[...] Fonte: Inside Facebook [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 7:43 am
I’ll probably be the first to create an infinite post loop…
1. Post to Twitter
2. Facebook twitter app updates Facebook status
3. Facebook posts to Twitter
4. Goto 2
July 16th, 2009 at 8:33 am
[...] is working on a new Twitter integration that would let users publish updates to Twitter automatically from [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 9:03 am
LOL, great work Justin + insidefacebook.com; you guys are everywhere!
Keep it up!
July 16th, 2009 at 9:17 am
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 9:44 am
[...] Sure, they’re apps that currently allow this… but it seems Facebook wants their own. InsideFacebook reports that they contacted company, asking about the Penguin FB app and they had no comment. [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 10:20 am
[...] InsideFacebook reports that they contacted company, asking about the Penguin FB app and they had no comment. Shortly after that, Blake deleted his test tweet. (You can still view his tweet via search.twitter). [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 11:34 am
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July 16th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
[...] On Wednesday we found out (through a post by Mark Zuckerberg) that Facebook hit a quarter billion users, putting it past Indonesia as the world’s fourth populous “country.” One person who was certainly not surprised by the news was David Kirkpatrick. Although he’s currently residing in the hills of the Berkshires, there’s probably no person further inside Facebook right now than Kirkpatrick. Other than, maybe, Justin Smith of Inside Facebook. [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
[...] Facebook – Facebook Working on New Twitter Integration? – Tweeted by Guy Kawasaki [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
[...] Facebook Working on New Twitter Integration?, Inside Facebook [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
[...] Via | Insidefacebook.com [...]
July 16th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
[...] A Facebook engineer has been spotted tweeting from an application called Penguin FB, as you can see in the picture, and it doesn’t take a genius to work out that the FB probably is probably short for Facebook. So, putting two and two together combined with denials from Facebook and the removal of the tweet by engineer Ross Blake, there’s a very good chance that this was a test of a Twitter application on Facebook which allows users to tweet directly from the world’s biggest social network. The move would be in line with Facebook’s drive to get in on the act in some way, whether that be by aping Twitter or, in this case, by trying to hold on to a lot of the traffic through the API. Doubtless, we’ll hear more about it soon. (via Facebook Insider) [...]
July 17th, 2009 at 3:03 am
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 17th, 2009 at 3:38 am
it’s a good news, twitter is getting famous it will help both social netwrosk.
July 17th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Given the 140 character limit on Twitter, I can envision millions of Facebook updates consisting of the start of the comment, cut off promptly at 120 chars with a link to FB for the rest…
I like using FB with Twitter, but Twitter is where most of my output originates – usually I’ll pick up the comments in Facebook and continue conversations that way with non-Twitter-using friends. I don’t know that it would work as well the other way round….
July 17th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
[...] http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/07/15/facebook-working-on-new-twitter-integration/ [...]
July 17th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
July 17th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
I think Twitter would be happier to be on Facebook, than Facebook would like to see Twitter on Facebook.
July 18th, 2009 at 4:04 am
[...] Facebook are working on an integrated Twitter app to use within the 250 million member service. Inside Facebook this week reported on a test tweet from Facebook engineer Ross Blake which was delivered via [...]
July 19th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
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July 19th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
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July 20th, 2009 at 1:21 am
[...] InsideFacebook reports that they contacted company, asking about the Penguin FB app and they had no comment. Shortly after that, Blake deleted his test tweet. (You can still view his tweet via search.twitter). [...]
July 21st, 2009 at 1:04 am
I would be surprised if Facebook published it’s content into twitter, seems like a big favor to a company it seems intent on competing with.
I could see them testing it’s affect on traffic though, maybe they are hoping to use twitter to drive traffic back to fb with links to the status update.
“‘I’m happy right now.’ comment on this at http://fb.com/X15fZ”
or even better:
“Tyler just posted on Facebook — check it out http://fb.com/X15fZ“
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 am
[...] sinhronizacijo objav na Twittru s statusi na Facebooku, je kak teden nazaj v blogosfero pricurljala novica, da naj bi Facebook razvijal sinhronizacijo statusov v obratno smer, torej s Facebooka na Twitter. [...]
July 31st, 2009 at 11:53 pm
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
August 10th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
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August 20th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
[...] weeks ago, we noticed a test tweet from Facebook that looked like the company might be working on a new way for Facebook pages to syndicate status updates to Twitter. Today, Facebook just launched exactly [...]
August 28th, 2009 at 1:05 am
[...] tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has [...]
September 5th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
[...] in my feeds the other day, titled “Facebook Working on New Twitter Integration?“. [read original post here] This immediately brought to mind an image of a giant facebook creature eagerly eyeing off [...]
March 13th, 2010 at 12:57 am
if this happen then face book is going to be a gr8 for social networking if two big giants of social networking join together
April 9th, 2010 at 5:31 am
Really it’s a good news..!!both social networks will help…!!
May 16th, 2010 at 4:42 am
I wish they would hurry up and sort it. I sick of logging in and out of them both.
June 6th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
[...] approach they’re working on is integrating their status update platform with Twitter’s. With a [...]
July 9th, 2010 at 2:25 am
I read your post. Its interesting and very nice to read. thanks.
August 24th, 2010 at 2:58 am
Very celever move from Facebook, I am excited to see how they will battle Google Wave?