Facebook becomes Twitter app

Tweet without being on near the micro-blogging site

21 August 2009 3:09 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Facebook is trying to lure Twitter users back to the service by allowing its users to post to Twitter via their Facebook status pages.

In a move that will see the social networking site create a powerplay to become the sole destination for those wanting to share their life online, the company has said that it will be rolling out a new feature in the next couple of days "that allows administrators of Facebook Pages to publish their Facebook updates to their Twitter accounts automatically.

Although the new feature isn't for individual profiles as yet the site could possibly roll out the feature to its users if the Facebook Pages feature is a success.

"If you manage a Facebook Page, you now will be able to decide whether to share updates with their Twitter followers, and you also will be able to control what type of updates to share: status updates, links, photos, notes, events or all of them," said facebook.

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Via: blog.facebook.com

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