Following Facebook Friends with Twitter Blocked

By CIOinsight
2010-06-24
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Twitter June 23 made it possible for its 190 million-plus users to find and follow Facebook friends that also use the microblog service. The company, satisfying a heavily requested feature, upgraded its Facebook application to show Twitter users what Facebook friends of theirs are on Twitter. Users may then save them to a Twitter List and post tweets to a Facebook profile and Facebook Pages.

Rate This Article: Poor Best Add This Article To: Digg this   Del.icio.us   Slashdot   Y! My Web   E-mail   Print Furl   Google   Simpy   Spurl!   PDF Version Twitter June 23 made it possible for its 190 million-plus users to find and follow their Facebook friends that use the microblog service. Facebook then turned around and blocked the functionality, Twitter said. The idea is to promote link, photo and general content sharing between the leading microblog service and the leading social network, both of which have millions of users in common. One small problem though: this functionality isn't working. To read the original eWeek article, click here: Twitter Blocked from Following Facebook Friends test     >>> More Web Services/SOA Articles          >>> More By CIOinsight   Email Article To Friend  ♦ Print Version Of Article  ♦ PDF Version Of Article