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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 genericid »

mkirklions wrote: post #53
chasing wrote: post #46

People who follow me on Facebook are different than people who follow me on Twitter. The integration was nice because I could send messages to both platforms at once and would get responses from different people on each. I'm not going to copy-paste every tweet into Facebook, so I suspect I'll basically go silent on that platform. Which sucks. And if I'm not an active part of the Facebook community, I'll probably visi…

I switched from Facebook to Twitter/Snap/Insta. Much easier than I expected, I still check my facebook once every few weeks, but the content on FB was garbage.

> I switched from Facebook to [...] Insta.

Well done! That will show them.

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

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Post by grkvlt »

joekrill wrote: post #25

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 dif…

It's annoying, I use Twitter as my main social network outlet, and post there regularly, and it was always convenient to have the posts mirrored on Facebook, since many friends don't use Twitter. Twitter is more of a work related thing, I guess, so perhaps I'll just end up segmenting my posting into work/personal between the two sites, but there's plenty of overlap and things I want to automatically go both places...

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ConceptJunkie wrote: post #82
toomuchtodo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What the walled garden giveth, it taketh away. Build on someone's platform? Depend on it exclusively? Gonna have a bad time. You would think folks would learn by now.

The real problem is that if 80% of your audience is in the walled garden, and no more than 10% of your audience is on any one of the many other alternatives, you're kind of stuck if you want to reach as many of them as possible easily.

It’s not your audience; it’s Facebook’s audience. You’ve just been granted the temporary privilege of access to them with no further guarantees.

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

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Post by grkvlt »

djhaskin987 wrote: post #81

For those who miss the functionality, you can use IFTTT for this: https://ifttt.com/search/query/facebook I use it to post pictures to twitter whenever I post to instagram, but there's a lot of nice facebook twitter functionality too.

I don't think so, ALL automated posting is blocked now ;(

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

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Post by rhizome »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #92
rhizome wrote: post #89

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Yes, of course it can still be done manually, but that introduces magnitudes more friction to their operations. It's no longer "post once, publish everywhere" as far as FB is concerned.

Again, I don't think this kind of friction is meaningful for the purported targets - but it definitely is for everyone else.

Well I think it is. It may not eliminate the actors and thus not a perfect solution, but this isn't a calculus final and it's going to slow propagation by definition, which for me is a self-evident win.

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

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Post by wolco »

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #35
joekrill wrote: post #25

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 dif…

I'm surprised at the outrage too. Your personal profile on Facebook is supposed to be a place to post your holiday photos, pictures of your kids, updates about events in your life etc, not mindless automated stuff like this. Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying they don't exist, bu…

Like automatic twitter updates containing personal thoughts being rebroadcasted. This will reduce the already thinning content on facebook further.

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

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Post by trumped »

bena wrote: post #93
brownkonas wrote: post #88

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This seems like this will trigger anti-trust proceedings.

How so? Facebook is owned by Facebook. Facebook is simply not allowing other services to post on a user's behalf. Those other services still exist, Facebook is not a public good, etc.

> Facebook is not a public good

I thought Facebook was on the stock market...

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

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Post by bena »

bwilliams18 wrote: post #95
bena wrote: post #93

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How so? Facebook is owned by Facebook. Facebook is simply not allowing other services to post on a user's behalf. Those other services still exist, Facebook is not a public good, etc.

A big part of anti-trust law in the US is that natural monopolies are permitted - you can build a business that dominates your market segment and not be subject to anti-trust proceedings, but you cannot use that natural monopoly to advantage your other lines of business by providing them with exclusive, preferred or other special treatment in said natural monopoly. This was the crux of US vs. MSFT. The argument here…

What does Facebook have a monopoly on?

Microsoft had a monopoly on the retail operating system space and leveraged that monopoly to force vendors into bad positions that excluded other operating systems a shot on a fair market. They also used their position to push their products to the detriment of other competitors.

As far as I can tell, Facebook just has a monopoly on Facebook. Which is to be expected since Facebook is Facebook.

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

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Post by lapnitnelav »

bonniemuffin wrote: post #51
megaman22 wrote: post #44

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> Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying they don't exist, but it's certainly more difficult to implement than it is on Facebook). We are clearly not looking at the same subset of Instagram. I don't know anybody that actually uses it to post real content; it's just an endless feed of…

Is this you? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/the-i...

Hey that was a pretty cool read.

Interesting to see what the kids are up to.

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