"We want to make it easier for you to share your FriendFeed activity on the web services you're already using. Now you can publish your FriendFeed updates directly to Twitter."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Only thing is that I wish you could make it easier to get my Twitter and FriendFeed list of friends synchronized in two ways: 1) doing a fresh search and/or notifying me when my Twitter friends join FF, and 2) by automating creation on fake friends in Twitter so that I can use FF.com exclusively for all my Twitter tracking.
- Patrick Lightbody
so does that mean that friendfeed entries will be fed to twitter and right back to friendfeed again if one's account is part of friendfeed?
- Cee Bee
How do you handle the echo effect of GReader => FF => Twitter => FF?
- Pras Sarkar
this is great. But I also second Cee Bee's question.
- Tsega Dinka
Thank goodness it's all services except Twitter. Otherwise, there might be an infinite feedback loop.
- Morton Fox
anyone know how the folks at Twitter feel about this?
- Thomas Hawk
We took into account the echo effects/loops. Let us know if you see any issues (we are aware of and fixing one bug at the moment).
- Dan Hsiao
Seems cool, but I wonder if it will interfere with my other networks by reposting my Tweets again, and again :/ Testing now!
- Michael Forian
Paul this is huge for your team! Congrats!
- Jorge Escobar
Greader shared items are not being reposted to Twitter for me.
- Pras Sarkar
@Pras, I don't see any Greader items on your FF feed since we launched the feature 30 minutes ago... Have you had any come in since then?
- Dan Hsiao
I was JUST sitting here going, man...it would be nice if people on Twitter could see the cool stuff I'm sharing to FriendFeed...ask ye shall receive...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I gots some people on Twitter I don't want to see how much fun I'm having on FF. Appreciate the option, though.
- Derrick
@Dan, odd, I don't see my shared items on Greader making it to FF. I'll investigate. Thanks.
- Pras Sarkar
just changed my settings to only include the material I post *to* FriendFeed vs. all the comments I make *on* FF. Comments come across in Twitter out of context and for an active FF person would tend to push too much craziness into their Twitter stream.
- Thomas Hawk
Hrm...I hope people don't put stuff like Digg/Stumble/Identi.ca/Greader. Anything that gets bundled up in FriendFeed probably has NO business being piped into Twitter...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
interesting...what about enabling this for identica as well? i only post to identica, which then feeds into twitter...since the apis are essentially the same, it should be easy to hook up...
- Trent Olson
I don't have a fucking clue how I feel about this.
- tehKenny, Dork
@Pras, since we crawl for updates, they usually come every 30 min or so. You can always manually refresh to check for updates from your profile page (select the service icon, then click the Refresh link that shows up)
- Dan Hsiao
you can pick and choose which services get routed over to twitter. pretty cool
- Cee Bee
This is so great. Posting to Twitter was feeling like a bit of a digital chore, frankly. Just wanted to keep my presence happening there, not much more. This makes it so I can be here 100% of the time. Well done.
- Steve Isaacs
Wooo hooo!! You guys rock again!! yeah!
- Susan Beebe
This is awesome! Now I can spam all my tweeps with my Friendfeed activity! More bending, splicing, and tuning of the firehose. Most excellent. UPDATE: Holy crap. This is a POWERFULLY dangerous new feature. Look out Twitter. UPDATE2: Wow. Just. Wow. That's a scary powerful feature. I did find a minor issue when you comment on a twitter post and check send @reply to twitter - results in duplicate post. user best practice to not check @reply I guess.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
big deal, indeed - trying to figure out what the micro-blog equivalent to power grid "kilowatts" - alas, transforms made possible power grids - yet innovative data tranformations are subject to weak argents concerning "useful[ness], concrete[ness] and tangib[ility]" ... bet they do a telecom split at some point >>> a step in the direction of "willingness to pay" for bandwidth ... Don't understand? You probably aren't paying my bills ;-)
- Scott Moskowitz
They will need some native iphone and android g1 apps now. FF not best first comment first engine.
- Patrick Moorhead
Go ahead & acquire Ping.fm and then this news goes nuclear:)
- Roney Smith
Very impressive, I will try this out now to see how it displays...
- Joe Dawson
Thomas Hawk - same here. I had to go back and tweak my publish feed settings to NOT include all the comments I make *on* FF; just send a tweet to twitter for only the stuff I *post* on FF
- Susan Beebe
I tried to get a count of the times she said the word "boobs", but I got seriously distracted. Anyone get that count?
- Mike Lewis
You know, this started off painful, but it got funny. I think we should have a "Take back the internet with our boobies" movement. Ok, no, actually I don't, but I thought it might make someone crack a smile if I said that.
- MiniMage - HLtW
i get this stuff all the time. i only did one post about people hating on my boobs and it's on flickr. people have been hating on my boob for years... bleh they can suck it. glad i'm not the only one tho
- Caroline
The msnbc clip is here http://tinyurl.com/5plfh2 What Powell says starting around 04:27 is what Democrats should be saying when somebody says "Obama is a Muslim".
- Kamath (नमः)