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Twitter/Facebook syncing should prepend " twittering: " or similar
Populating the Facebook status field with the most recent Twitter post is awkward, because Facebook automatically adds "is" to the beginning of the status. I propose that it would be better to prepend " twittering:" to any status update coming from Twitter. This would make the phrasing less awkward, eliminating status updates like "John Doe is I'm really tired today." It would also let people know that the update came from Twitter.
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Great idea. Alex coded it up and it's live now.
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Hate to rain on the parade, but I'd love an option to turn the "Twittering:" off...
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Inappropriate?This is a totally brilliant idea. I just turned off auto-updating Facebook via Twitter the other day because the awkward sentence construction was driving my inner grammarian crazy. BUT doing this would totally solve my problem, and do more promotion of Twitter on Facebook.
Brilliant, I say! Do it, Twitter! Do it!
I’m twittering this idea, too
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Inappropriate?I just turned on the auto-updating this morning and was not looking forward to dealing with the "is." Excellent work-around!
I’m surprised I didn't think of this!
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Inappropriate?FEI: There's also a Facebook group called "Petition to Get Rid of "is" from Facebook Status Update!"
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid...
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Inappropriate?Great idea!
I’m still trying to figure out the best way to update Facebook status automatically with Twitter
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Inappropriate?Great idea. Alex coded it up and it's live now.
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Inappropriate?Hmm... It didn't seem to work? Just posted 4 minutes ago... "Alexa Weber Andrzejewski is Excited I can update Facebook status via Twitter!" -- but no "Twittering:"
I used twitterific -- does that matter?
I’m perplexed
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Inappropriate?Hmm now it worked... and I'm thrilled! I wouldn't have signed up to sync statuses if this weren't added. :-)
I’m thrilled
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Inappropriate?Yes - there've been a couple of notes sent to us that echo this desire.
In this case, we thought the change was a clear improvement so we avoided a setting. But we're continually evolving the FB app to incorporate more feedback.
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Inappropriate?Yes - there've been a couple of notes sent to us that echo this desire.
In this case, we thought the change was a clear improvement so we avoided a setting. But we're continually evolving the FB app to incorporate more feedback. -
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Inappropriate?Why not test the first word of the tweet; if it's "is" then there is no need to add "is twittering: "
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if(first_word ne "is") tweet = "is twittering: " . tweet; -
Inappropriate?Why not test the first word of the tweet; if it's "is" then there is no need to add "is twittering: "
In PERL:
if(first_word ne "is") tweet = "is twittering: " . tweet;
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Inappropriate?I'd like to be able to send only certain tweets to update my facebook status, not all of them (perhaps by appending a short tag to my tweet). Is there a workaround for this?
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Inappropriate?I've never had a problem working with the "is", and whole-heartedly second an option to turn the "twittering:" off, or to append rather than prepend it.
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Inappropriate?It would be great if we could choose from a couple different templates for our twitter import -- "is twittering: " / "is thinking:" / no prepend / append. -
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Inappropriate?Also, just speaking for myself, it would be cool if we could set that by in-SMS command (similar to direct messaging).
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Inappropriate?how do I automatically update my facebook status with Twitter? Can i do this with myspace too? -
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Inappropriate?Your best bet with MySpace might be to find a widget that displays an RSS feed.
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