Facebook, one of the biggest competitors of Twitter, is now launching new feature in Facebook pages to update status on Facebook as well as Twitter. Yes, it’s quite shocking news, and Facebook team has declared it on Facebook blog.
Recently, Friendfeed merged into Facebook to improve its features and many Facebook users thought that this deal by Facebook would make big impact on Twitter. Now, Facebook itself is appreciating the power of Twitter by creating new service for Facebook and Twitter users.
Facebook team says -
Many people have asked us to make Facebook and Twitter work better together for those times when they want to share their content as widely as possible. We agree. Over the next few days, we will be releasing a feature that allows administrators of Facebook Pages to publish their Facebook updates to their Twitter accounts automatically.
Public figures, musicians, businesses and organizations of all types who’ve created Facebook Pages often want to share a status update, a photo or an event with as many of their supporters as possible. Celebrities may want to share personal news or charities may want to put out calls for help to both their Facebook fans and their Twitter followers, all at the same time.
Twitter was a natural next step to link with Facebook Pages because it is a powerful tool for broadcasting short messages widely.
Here’s how this new Facebook feature works -
This feature allows admins to publish their Facebook updates to Twitter accounts. A Facebook user can easily share its status updates, links, photos, notes, events etc. on Twitter account. The only thing you need to use this feature is a simple Facebook page.
This new feature also supports multiple Facebook pages and you can send these updates to different Twitter accounts. Even though you get interesting utilities with this new feature, it doesn’t allow users to link their individual profile; it just links to Facebook pages.
According to Facebook team, the new feature is now available for few celebrities and soon be available for all users. To get this feature, head over to – http://www.facebook.com/twitter.
If you use this feature on Facebook, it will update your Twitter account as shown below.
What do you think about this new feature? Do let us know in the comments.
I think it’s a bad idea since it will lead to even more information getting pumped out on Twitter from writers with no intention of reading it.
This feature is specially designed for Facebook users, but unfortunately this will bring more spam to Twitter.
I think it's a bad idea since it will lead to even more information getting pumped out on Twitter from writers with no intention of reading it.
This feature is specially designed for Facebook users, but unfortunately this will bring more spam to Twitter.
I think it is a nice move. Now people can update their twitter account via facebook also.
Exactly! It’s very convenient for facebook users to update their twitter account from facebook profile itself.
I think it is a nice move. Now people can update their twitter account via facebook also.
Exactly! It's very convenient for facebook users to update their twitter account from facebook profile itself.
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I think that in theory this is a great idea for the smart marketer, who understands the principle of the funnel technique.
However Facebook have already mucked it up by releasing it to celebrities first, thus the members of Twitter who are used to rapidly filtering through the junk, will associate this new feed with celebrity trash before those that are interested in providing useful offers get a look in.
I think that in theory this is a great idea for the smart marketer, who understands the principle of the funnel technique.
However Facebook have already mucked it up by releasing it to celebrities first, thus the members of Twitter who are used to rapidly filtering through the junk, will associate this new feed with celebrity trash before those that are interested in providing useful offers get a look in.
[...] has already announced its new feature to update twitter account status from Facebook profile and it’s quite evident that Facebook and Twitter, the best social networking sites, trying hard [...]