Indeed several, but people love ours because we do it smarter: * change @mentions to Twitter real names * post links to FB wall so your friends can see previews, watch videos, and/or play audio inline * give you the option of an inclusive (#fb) or exclusive (!fb) filter on what tweets to post
See #3 on http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/ :-) On Feb 25, 6:17 am, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: > FYI: There's already an app that posts Tweets to Facebook. > > -John > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Jonathan Strauss < > > > > jonat...@snowballfactory.com> wrote: > > Heh :-) The app we're building, TweetPo.st, is designed to post the > > user's tweets to Facebook. So, the call-to-action I proposed would be > > specific to our app: i.e. if TweetPo.st users were not seeing the > > expected behavior from the app. > > > But, we have decided to do basically what you suggest to start. > > However, this will not help us if a user starts out in the clear and > > is then subsequently quality filtered for whatever reason. But, > > hopefully that's a real edge-case. > > > Thanks again! > > -jonathan > > > On Feb 24, 11:52 am, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > I don't know if you could detect this via Facebook updates. You could, > > > perhaps, start following them on the stream and poll their timelines in > > > parallel until you determine that their tweets are flowing -- then turn > > off > > > the polling. > > > > -John > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jonathan Strauss < > > > > jonat...@snowballfactory.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 23, 11:45 pm, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > > > > As far as programmatic detection, there are significant policy issues > > in > > > > > play around filtered users. Getting this feature shipped is the real > > > > > solution. > > > > > Thanks for the quick response John! We suspected that shipping this > > > > feature was the right solution, and it's good to know it's at the top > > > > of the list. However, we know first-hand how big a time sink > > > > scalability can be, so we won't hold our breath on seeing it too > > > > soon ;-) > > > > > In the meantime, we may be able to do a workaround using user input > > > > (i.e. "Click here if your tweets aren't showing up on Facebook"). > > > > We're already doing direct polling for protected updates, so it would > > > > just be a matter of detecting the quality filtered public updates and > > > > flipping the direct polling bit on our side. > > > > > Thanks again, and we look forward to seeing this feature when you're > > > > able to get to it. > > > > > -jonathan > > > > > ===== > > > > Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder > > > >http://snowballfactory.com > > > > > Campaign tracking for social media -http://awe.sm > > > > A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter -http://tweetpo.st > > > > Sharecount button for Facebook -http://www.fbshare.me
