Dave Hussein Winer

I think some people use Twitterfeed to pull the RSS feed for FriendFeed posts into Twitter - Shey

Watch the 140 character limit - Hutch Carpenter

Couldn't you direct your FF RS to twitterfeed, and have it auto post your posts to Twitter? - Mavericky Awesomesausages

What does it do with posts from Twitter that are reflected to FriendFeed? Does it send them back to Twitter which then would send them to FF, etc etc forever. - Dave Hussein Winer

That's almost the reverse of what most are doing: Posting to Twitter and having it go to FriendFeed. Are you looking for an automatic way to take Internal FriendFeed posts, and have something automatically send them to Twitter with a bit.ly URL? - Louis Gray

I wonder the same thing. On the one hand, there are followers on each network that would otherwise miss out on your postings. On the other, you likely have serious overlap who'll get redundant postings. And, of course, if you have your Twitter posts auto-feed into FriendFeed, you'll have an open loop. - James Joyner

Of course I've written my own reflector and this post is here as a test. :-) - Dave Hussein Winer

http://friendfeed.com/e/7fd9f9... - Dave Hussein Winer

My reflector doesn't reflect posts that come from Twitter only if they originate on FF. - Dave Hussein Winer

Actually it's a 95 character limit when you add the overhead of "[From FriendFeed]: " and the shortened url linking to the FF post. - Dave Hussein Winer

There would be technical problems (FriendFeed posts can exceed Twitter's character limitations), and you'd lose all of the context of the comments that may be attached to the FriendFeed post. That having been said, perhaps a "reshare" to Twitter may be desirable; don't know if I'd use it, though. - Ontario Emperor

I'm worried that redundant postings from other people's feeds are increasing the challenge of following quality posts. Still confused as to the best "home" for different types of content (knowing content never stays home). - Kawika Holbrook

I don't send comments, just posts. - Dave Hussein Winer

I tend to do it the other way around. Using Twitter to post here. But I have been trying to build a "funnel" that take comments and replies and brings them to one point. Plus a concept like Ping.fm could work for posting. Run everything into a dashboard like the way Tweetdeck works and then I can stop this jumping from site to site, from software to software crap and go to one place. - Stephan Miller

Dave...I was going to use a service called Ping.fm...but I found it was producing duplicate posts in FriendFeed...i.e. I post to Ping.fm a status update, and it updates my FF, Twitter, Pownce, etc. But then FF displays the FF posting, Twitter post and Pownce post...It'd be nice if FriendFeed recognized that the posts were identical and consolidated them. - Sean McGee

Imagine if Twitter were stable, opened its protocols for anyone to duplicate (a-la identi.ca) and got groovy with importing, commenting, and/or bookmarking. They could rely on their brand, advertising and future brand management tools to pay the bills. (Really, I just want one service that works well with different types of content and conversations so I don't have to keep flitting about services.) - Kawika Holbrook

Dave, what I do is post on Ping.fm which posts on various services including Twitter, and then I have Twitter pulled by Frienfeed. Of course, that's for things that have less than the 140 character limit. (BTW, ping.fm still doesn't post on FriendFeed, or is it?) - JungleG

I was using ping.fm to post to twitter & identi.ca, and had them both coming into FFeed. The repetition in FFeed was a pain, so now my default ping.fm posts to all three, and FFeed does NOT pick up twitter & identi.ca. Now my tweeps only see dups if they follow me on more than one service. Still far from ideal. Meanwhile, if I have an identi.ca-specific post to make (for example), I can do it in ping.fm using "@ff @id", I guess. - Tegan Dowling

I know I need to look at all the routing on my feeds, as I'm duplicating stuff. in here - Ian Hussein Maverick May

Why put "[From FriendFeed]" ? Does that add context that is important? We just want want the content, and it gives you more characters to work with :) - Dion Almaer