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Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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Post by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC »

What? Having social iteraction owned by a private quasi-monopoly means the monopoly can screw with how you interact with the world at will? Who could have guessed that?

Really, I don't understand how this is news. It's what was going to happen, everyone with half a brain has known that since facebook started being a thing, and anyone who cared could trivially avoid it. So how is it that there are still people who apparently care that this happens?

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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Post by sfoblowsjose »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #17

I exclusively use FB, so I had automated posting of tweets (from my kids schools) to FB so I could stay in the loop. Also at work we Tweeted Facebook activity. I'll have to use Twitter now instead of just using Facebook. Is the hope from Facebook that people will just not bother with Twitter? Why haven't Facebook notified us wrt business use that Tweets will no longer be pulled in?

No one cares?

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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Post by joekrill »

I'm surprised at the almost universal outrage over this. I assumed this was in response to the whole election interference campaign and related issues, i.e. preventing bots from blasting out content and predetermined times or in response to specific keywords in the news, things like that. So this seems like a step in the direction of ensuring actual humans are doing these things (or at least make it slightly more difficult for the bots). But maybe I'm wrong. I don't really use Facebook to begin with so I'm probably missing something here.

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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Post by toomuchtodo »

jpatokal wrote: post #9
AndrewDucker wrote: post #7

To be clear, Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post _anything_ to a personal profile. More details: https://betanews.com/2018/08/02/twitter-facebook-crossposts-...

This includes most blog integrations, eg. being able to configure Wordpress to post a plug on your personal FB when you write something in your blog.

Good! This means more open distribution methods (email) will be given priority again.

I don't want Facebook, nor Twitter. Just take my email address and send me your content, or offer an RSS feed.

EDIT: Anyone know if this kills Buffer and other social feed managers?

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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Post by TheRealWatson »

I may be swimming in the opposite direction, but I like to see that go. I left Twitter (well, abandoned my account) years ago, tired of the excessive noise and progressive loss of relevance to me. Seeing tweets on the FB feed always makes the author seem lazy and desperate to have a presence in every social media site, just because. I know that the change won't stop all of that but will certainly reduce it. FB isn't exactly a noiseless feed but I sort of have to put up with it given family and friends.

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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Post by TeMPOraL »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #26
jpatokal wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This includes most blog integrations, eg. being able to configure Wordpress to post a plug on your personal FB when you write something in your blog.

Good! This means more open distribution methods (email) will be given priority again. I don't want Facebook, nor Twitter. Just take my email address and send me your content, or offer an RSS feed. EDIT: Anyone know if this kills Buffer and other social feed managers?

Good - if you don't like/use Facebook. For people who like/use it (and there are many), this is a very sad day.

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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Post by TeMPOraL »

ghaff wrote: post #20
mrweasel wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder what the reasoning behind this is. It seems that it would reduce the amount of content on Facebook. Perhaps the thought is that people will go and post directly to Facebook instead? Or it could be a way of reducing noice/spam.

Apparently it's part of further locking down their API ( https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/01/psa-cross-posting-tweets-t... ) so that random apps that have been given permission to post by default can no longer do so. The way I read it, people who deliberately want to cross-post tweets are essentially collateral damage.

Why couldn't they blanket-deauth all Facebook apps (or maybe just ones authed before this year, or sth.) instead? People would fix the apps they still use. And really, publishing apps on FB is not a real problem; apps exfiltrating data is.
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