You can now add TweetDeck to the growing army of apps that are joining Facebook Connect. TweetDeck is the most popular desktop client for Twitter, and now it will add Facebook functionality as well. When you send out a message from TweetDeck, you will now have the option to send it to Twitter, Facebook, or both. A new column will be added to TweetDeck showing you status updates from your Facebook friends (in addition to the existing columns for Tweets from people you follow on Twitter, replies, and direct messages). And if one of your Facebook friends is online, a green dot appears by their name and you can chat with them through Facebook chat via a pop-up window.
TweetDeck will be rolling out the new feature over the next few days. A version of the update will be posted here for those who want to upgrade manually.
TweetDeck is just the latest app to join the Facebook Connect Army. On Saturday, Facebook announced that Facebook Connect now works with iPhone apps and desktop apps such as Seesmic. With Tweetdeck, Facebook ventures into the realm of Twitter apps. By going after the Twitter apps, Facebook can do an end-run around Twitter. Tweetdeck alone accounts of about 13 percent of all Twitter users.
If more of the top Twitter apps add Facebook Connect, more than a third of all Twitter users could be covered pretty quickly. Of course, Twitter could just add a Facebook Connect option itself, but that would be conceding victory to Facebook.
The Convergence of Facebook Updates and Twitter Tweets makes sense, I wrote a note on the same http://socialap...witter-updates/
cool!
TweetDeck is too hungry memory wise. I can’t believe it takes 5% of my CPU – all the time – on my iMac. The look and feel is nice though, even if it takes too much space. I prefer Syrinx or Pwitter.
It’s good that it is now connecting to facebook as well.
I am curious to see if TweetDeck and Adium will end-up having the same functionality. Adium is developing a TweetDeck client and already has FB chat (not status posting though).
Helltxt.com is also doing multi-social network posting.
Haha, same here. On my Vista box TweetDeck enjoys a cool 1 gig of ram.
I have enough to spare, but the resource drain is still annoying. Maybe they can take some of that funding they got and patch the leaks.
Ubuntu 8.10 reports usage of 1 gig as well, but that’s after like 9 hours online.
Same here Vincent – Had to re-boot PC a few weeks ago because of tweetdeck. Since then been very cautious about what apps I use. very interested in syrinx and pwitter and helltxt.com whats your twitter addy?
I’m just curious as to how TweetDeck manages to keep running? I don’t see any possible sources of revenue for them and they don’t advertise within the application at all
That comes second. Right now, they have accomplished the first goal of becoming relevant in the app. business.
When you have that many users, time is on your side in respect to figuring out the business model. hold your horses
They survive because they received a few hundred thousand dollars as an investment. They don’t have revenue or paying customers, so it’d be (still) considered a side project without the investment.
Faramarz, your comment scares me.
This I’m curious about as well. I really wonder how they can stay afloat.
I’m sure this is big news at South by Southwest. All morning long, people who tweeted “#sxsw” have used TweetDeck more than the Twitter web site or any other Twitter client … at least since I built this #sxsw tweet analyzer.
How does Tweetdeck compares with Twirl and Spaz? I have been trying to change the source Twitter. can anybody help me out.
The best Twitter client just keeps getting better.
This was a very smart move on Tweetdeck’s part. There are already a ton of tweeters who update their twitter and facebook status with tools like Ping.fm. Now I don’t even have to leave my desktop or facebook profile.
Tweetdeck & socialmedian both adopted Facebook Connect today
http://blog.soc...s_facebook.html
wonder what happens if you already have the Twitter update to Facebook feature turned on?
I don’t think Facebook finds dupes, so chances are that you will simply post two updates.
This integration makes sense if you’re a web publisher and both Twitter and Facebook are distribution lists – one app to microblog to both.
If both social networks are close friends, does this become the UI for both? I doubt it. Visiting Facebook and Twitter is similar to visiting friends, but a quick, virtual visit.
If Facebook is friends, and Twitter is a massive distribution list – then we say different things to each audience. Facebook is moving in that direction.
Will tweetdeck integrate email soon? Does it become a communications portal? Like all other projects on the web – who knows.
This is awesome!
Does this mean I would need to uninstall the Twitter application on Facebook?
If I do, I think this means my twitterfeed and other things that update my twitter status won’t update my fb status.
Any ideas?
If you are a mac users you should check out EventBox that is quite awesome for Facebook and Twitter (and google reader/youtube/flickr)
I have to say, I am a little concerned that this move will “stretch” Tweetdeck out, and make it less relevant to both Twitter users and Facebook users, surely Tweetdeck would have been better creating “FaceDeck”, or do the two converge better then I assume?
Looks pretty cool. I really enjoy Facebook Connect and I like seeing people use it. It really adds a lot.
TweetDeck is a great application – I’ve installed version 0.24 – but this is a terrible idea. In fact, I hate this.
Twitter and Facebook don’t complement each other well, especially when it comes to status updates. One’s status on Facebook is an *action* – it reads to other users as if your name is saying or doing something, i.e., ‘Sheamus is not happy with the direction TweetDeck is going.’
Whereas on Twitter, your status is not dependant on your name. It isn’t an action, it’s a statement.
Nobody should use any kind of cross-platform status manager and TweetDeck is now encouraging this.
Yeah, I can switch these functions off (and I have), but many people won’t, and we’re about to endure wave after wave of really ugly statuses on one or both of these platforms.
The Facebook pane seems pretty pointless to me. First, it ignores any of the new filters you may have set up within Facebook (after their recent upgrade), which means you’ll see the updates of all of your friends, as opposed to some within Facebook itself.
Second, if I want to chat to my friends on Facebook, I’ll have the network open in Firefox. It’s not a hardship.
I’m really not sure why the developers of TweetDeck have done this. My guess is to try and get more users, which is admirable, but this is a bad way to go about it. Twitter and Facebook don’t mix well. I don’t think they ever will.
I find this approach a little strange also. However, wanting update status globally through one interface is a valid goal – Ping.fm and HelloTxt.com are growing quickly.
What I don’t get is why devs want to duplicate this kind of network interfaces, when they could use the Ping.fm API for example. Why re-invent the wheel? They have a great system, with custom triggers and ways to target each ecosystem.
This is something the Ping.fm approach addresses; appending “%” before the status update inserts that network’s user name (so each network looks more grammatically correct).
I had to give up on TweetDeck because of the memory usage being out of control. Any app which consumes over 1GB a ram to view text messages with 140 chars needs to be fixed. Please fix the problems which are stopping users like me from using the app before adding “features” I probably wont use.
Like Vincent said, TweetDeck is just too hungry. When I find my computer lagging, the cause is almost always TweetDeck. It’s a shame, because it really is a great application. Hope this issue will be resolved in the future. Keep up the good work.
Mike Schinkel is anxiously awaiting the pending announcement of Twitter Connect.
Although some of my Twitter peeps are on my FB network and some of my FB contacts are following me on Twitter, I don’t like to use the same status update for both. They are NOT the same group of people.
That said, there are many who don’t want to be bothered with posting updates all over the place (well, in two places) when they could very well just keep it to one place. They don’t mind that sometimes their FB community won’t get what they are talking about . . .I do. But I am particular that way. I like to adapt my message to my audience.
So now what does the new alliance with FB mean with Tweetdeck? I look forward to seeing the new improved version of bridged communications.
One of the great types of internet communications tools are the aggregators, but one of the other great aspects of the internet is the ability to create or join a niche community and not have it lose its specificity because you are lazy to update all the different communities.
I totally agree – there is some overlap between my Twitter followers and Facebook friends, but I rarely use the two social media sites for the same reasons. Thus I’m usually not posting the same updates to both on my webtop. Still I guess it’s nice to have that availability to post to both if you feel the desire!
Hmm, all this integration could get rather messy. Having my Twitter stream plugged into Facebook, everything I post using TweetDeck already automatically flows into Facebook. Now we are having a second potential route into Facebook from TweetDeck, but any posts I do from other clients doesn’t.
My Twitter already is integrated with Facebook. Does this mean I now have to worry about double postings? I love all this integration but wouldn’t it have been more efficient to integrate with ping.fm so we can update multiple services at once like you can with Twhirl.
I use Tweetdeck so I can leverage my time wisely by sorting my Tweets.
Blessings,
Wendy
nice post thanks.. i just updated to the new client.. love it!
TweetDeck and Facebook are great application but if they combine together, what is for ?
If this means you will also be able to see your friends facebook status updates then it is great, if it is just something that posts up to facebook then is is something lots of the active users already have in place.
Murray
Interesting! I’ve yet to try this out…
This is really cool.
Good move. Every Twitter tool getting better and better