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Why can't I share my protected Twitter updates with my Facebook friends?
My last Twitter update to Facebook was September 11th 2007...
Is there some part of the Facebook API that makes it impossible to keep updating them if my statuses are private? Or is this a ploy to get everyone to open up?
Does this mean that other apps doing similar things are also insecure and leaking my private information? e.g. I use the Dopplr app on Facebook too.
Is there some part of the Facebook API that makes it impossible to keep updating them if my statuses are private? Or is this a ploy to get everyone to open up?
Does this mean that other apps doing similar things are also insecure and leaking my private information? e.g. I use the Dopplr app on Facebook too.
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Anyone who can view your Facebook profile can see your latest updates. So I'm not really sure that a protected Twitter user would want any of their Facebook friends to see that content.
Commonly on Facebook, people end up accepting as "friends" folks that they don't know or hardly know. Or they accept co-workers as friends. But maybe some of those people shouldn't get to see from Twitter what I got into this past weekend.
It's a tough call, but we felt we had to err on the side of protecting the privacy of users who'd elected for the more protected route.
It's helpful to hear the other side tho' - there are other cases where we'll have to revisit this decision.
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Inappropriate?We made the decision not to share protected updates via the Facebook API. This is to prevent the unintended sharing of private information with people who may not be meant to see it.
In other words, we can't assume that everyone who sees your Facebook profile (your updates would appear there) is actually meant to see your updates on Twitter.
It means a limiting of functionality for protected users but it also means that you don't have to worry about someone on Facebook seeing an update they weren't meant to.
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This doesn't make any sense. If you provide your users enough warning, can't they decided for themselves if their Facebook friends are selected as carefully as their Twitter friends and therefore should be able to see their updates?
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Inappropriate?I think I understand, but wouldn't even a protected Twitter user expect the Facebook app to let all their friends see their updates?
Unless you're saying that the Twitter Facebook app makes messages *public* (ie to any Facebook member, not just my friends) then I'd love it if you could make this an option: even though my Twitter updates are protected it's OK for my Facebook friends to see them [check].
I’m still not sure
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Inappropriate?Anyone who can view your Facebook profile can see your latest updates. So I'm not really sure that a protected Twitter user would want any of their Facebook friends to see that content.
Commonly on Facebook, people end up accepting as "friends" folks that they don't know or hardly know. Or they accept co-workers as friends. But maybe some of those people shouldn't get to see from Twitter what I got into this past weekend.
It's a tough call, but we felt we had to err on the side of protecting the privacy of users who'd elected for the more protected route.
It's helpful to hear the other side tho' - there are other cases where we'll have to revisit this decision.
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How about having an user-selectable option to have Twitter updates visible in my Facebook profile? You could have it disabled by default, to give the default privacy you want. But users could choose to allow their updates to be viewed by their Facebook friends.
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Jason, 2 quick questions: when you update your status on Twitter and send to facebook , can everyone on all of facebook see your update , even if you have limited your profile to 'friends'?
Finally, someone suggested a transient protection option ie. unprotect your twitter account (ie make it public) temporarily then install facebook twitter app , then go back to your twitter account and make this work. Does this work ? -
That was maybe the case an year ago, but Facebook now has more privacy controls than twitter, allowing you to really fine tune who you want your updates visible too. Maybe it's time you revisited your decision!
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Inappropriate?That is a poor reason. I know who is on my facebook and I know who is following me on twitter and I should be the one to make the decision to let my protected twitter posts get posted to facebook, not an arbitrary limit in the application.
Please don't tell me how I can use my twitter and facebook accounts.
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I second the option to allow protected twitter posts to be sent to Facebook. It can default to being off and have a descriptive warning if need be.
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Inappropriate?There is now a Facebook application called "Blog It", that allows you to simultaneously update your Twitter and Facebook status. This allows me to have my Facebook and Twitter friends see my updates, without having to enter everything twice.
See:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/applicat...
I’m thankful.
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Inappropriate?Hi, i just created a Google-App called TwitterFeedReader.
You can now import your Twitter-Timeline in Facebook by adding this RSS-Feed:
feed://twitterfeedreader.appspot.com/?username=YOURUSERNAME&password=YOURPASSWORD
It does not store your credentials or anything, just uses it for HTTP-Basic-Auth.
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Inappropriate?perhaps this is way out of date now, but the bit about "everyone of your fb friends sees your fb updates" is not true. facebook allows privacy settings on almost all parts of their pages so people who are friend-ing co-workers would well be advised to set all that up. and then, there is no need for twitter to try to protect dual twitter/fb users by limiting twitter functionality.
kind of annoying to those of us who are well aware of which fb friends see our status updates but can't integrate (protected) twitter and facebook because someone's holding our hands too tightly! :-)
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Inappropriate?OK, I figured out a way to skirt around this problem:
1. Make your twitter updates public
2. Add the twitter application from FB
3. Make your twitter updates private again
You should now be able to update FB from Twitter while keeping your Twitter updates protected.
Enjoy!
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