Since its beta launch this summer, Brizzly has been hands-down one of the best ways to interact with Twitter. The web app puts a new and intuitive user interface over Twitter’s data, which allows you to do things like see pictures inline in your stream, and easily retweet anything with the click of a button. Today, Brizzly applies its magic to Facebook.
The new Facebook functionality for Brizzly, which should be live in the next couple of hours, puts the Brizzly look and feel over some of Facebook’s features. Within Brizzly, you’ll now be able to do Facebook status updates, wall posts, comments, and likes. For now, you won’t be able to post pictures or videos, but Brizzly will offer a way to display them inline that is arguably better than the way Facebook itself does it.
This is an important new feature for Brizzly, as one of the service’s previously core features, Groups, is about to be done by Twitter itself in the form of the new Lists feature (which is currently in testing with about 25% of Twitter users). Brizzly has noted that it’s excited for the Lists feature, and that they’ll use its APIs to integrate with their Groups, but the functionality residing on Twitter.com still gives users a reason to go there, rather than Brizzly.
But with Facebook support, Brizzly offers something that Twitter cannot. It also gives it a leg up on rivals like Seesmic Web, which is also a very nice way to interact with Twitter on the web, but doesn’t yet have Facebook support (though it’s coming eventually).
Switching between your Twitter account and Facebook account on Brizzly is as easy as clicking a Facebook icon to switch over to a new stream. It’s the same idea as if you have multiple Twitter accounts set up with your Brizzly account. And within the Facebook area of Brizzly, you’ll be able to switch between a “Home” area and a “Recent” area. Home is basically the live Facebook News Feed, while Recent Activity shows stuff you’ve posted or commented on/liked recently.
In terms of developing for both Twitter and Facebook, “Twitter is very simple and Facebook has a ton of different features,” Brizzly co-founder Jason Shellen tells us. He went on to note that it can be hard to keep up with Facebook’s changes to their Platform, some of which are changing again later today.
Again, this new Facebook functionality should be live at some point today. And if you still need a Brizzly invite, ask around, there should be people still will plenty of invite codes available.
That’s nice! He looks cute!
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Good read!
Nice, provide news of your new feature to the bloggers and keep your users out of the loop. Great. And I was happy with Brizzly so far.
You never know, they might have gotten access and quotes via a French hacker or something…
In all seriousness, it’s great new functionality for a service which is the best web client for Twitter. Bring it on!
I’ll take and invite, but only because i like dangerous animals in cute sweaters
liked the features overall.
Very awesome! Can’t wait for this to go live. Facebook interface needs a makeover.
wouldnt it be better if they took it out of “invite only”, so people could use it before the REAL services implement them?
The post reads more like an ad for Brizzly. When you take out all the fluff, basically it reads, Brizzly added Facebook Connect to their site. That’s all. The rest are just fluff.
Personally, having images on the post is so messy. Having a new site based on “intuitive user interface” is a perfect recipe for the deadpool. Nothing compelling.
does anyone have an invite code? if so, I am looking for one for brizzly and google waive still.
I gave out 4 Wave invites to complete strangers on Twitter. How many you want for Brizzly and where?
just one… jag4411@gmail.com
thanks a ton!
got it AA, thanks again
I’d love one. Twitter @seanmichael
hey…i’d love an invite!
matt.keithley@gmail.com
Hi there – I’d love an invite if you can spare one.
dave-at-natts-dot-com
I’ve been using Brizzly for a while. The two drawbacks for me are:
(a) Brizzly is down whenever twitter is down, or when only the twitter api is down, or when amazon s3 is down, or when brizzly itself has issues. With so many moving parts, it often comes across as less reliable than twitter.
(b) no https support. This makes it a non-starter for hotels, conferences, airports, etc. Both twitter and facebook allow https, but for some reason, brizzly doesn’t.
Still, it’s a great service that’s continually improving.
I am seeing red when someone says Amazon S3 is down! Do you know how often it was down over the last year?! It is not about Amazon S3 being down it is about how the application developers integrate with Amazon S3 so that bugs in their code makes everyone thing that Amazon is down. My whole business depends on S3 and it is unbelievably reliable platform!
Check out here to find S3 outages http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Good to see brizzly adding new things but not sure if any non-twitter users would want to connect to facebook using brizzly
I might finally have to switch to using Brizzly full-time.
You can easily find invite code for Brizzly using the Twitter search.
http://twitter....0code%20brizzly
awesome…got one. thanks!
classy red cup profile pic there MG…
I use brizzly for twitter and really like it. I dont see the facebook feature activated on my profile yet. but look forward to it
I have a few Brizzly invites, I don’t really have many friends who use Twitter so if anyone wants one just ask.
tldr; that bear looks familiar…
hey Travis,
I’ll take a Brizzly invitation if you still have a few left. I don’t have a lot to share but I do have a Google Voice invitation if you want it (if Google Voice is still available invitation-only).
Cheers,
Doug
Check my comment above
or simply:
http://twitter....0code%20brizzly
Brizzly + Facebook working fine for me, just added my account.
Meh… not as great as I had hoped, doesn’t really integrate the two apps like I expected, and I’m back to seeing all the stupid app updates in facebook that I avoid with Facebook Purity or by using lite.facebook.com. I honestly don’t see any benefit to using this…
For the record: I’m starting to warm up to this interface, at least for twitter – especially since it makes it easy to have multiple streams. The facebook functionality has a bit to go yet, I think – if they can provide some cool filtering functionality (i.e. so to eliminate stupid app update noise) then I can see using this instead of lite.facebook.com.
you should give OrSiSo, http://www.orsiso.com, a try
Thanks, nik, but I followed Travis’ invite code. If anyone else needs an invitation, twitter.com/dmehus
Cheers,
Doug
Doug, would love to get a brizzly.com invite if you still have some. Thanks buddy!