16 Mar 2009
Twitter client wars opens new front with Facebook integration
There’s lots of noise around Twitter today about Tweetdeck’s latest development in its functionality - an integration with Facebook’s status updates.
@Mashable has published good article, Facebook Integration Arrives on TweetDeck, which highlights some interesting aspects of this development; Tweetdeck is effectively becoming an IM client, for example.
I have had a quick play with TweetDeck v0.24b, and I think I like having the FB status updates alongside my various Twitter groups. My time on FB (already much reduced by the rise of Twitter) will probably take another downward step…
People who are displaying their Twitter stream directly into Facebook (like Roberto Hortal (@rhortal) from MORE TH>N, whom I’m connected to on both Twitter and Facebook, might well reconsider how their updates are displayed to avoid duplication as below (the subject of Robert’s tweet/status update is quite appropriate).
