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Following Facebook Friends with Twitter Blocked

Jun 24, 2010
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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

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