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TweetDeck Joins The Facebook Connect Army

Source: TechCrunch

Mar 16, 2009

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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 a

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Comments (6)

415vince,

Mar 16, 2009

using it right now. It's pretty awesome so far, but what will your friends say about you retweeting their Facebook statuses?

Michaelfidler,

Mar 16, 2009

I think we are going to see a lot more of these announcements now! I think it's great, and I hope everyone gets on board asap. BTW, I noticed they added this a few days ago, while I was adding Tweetdeck to my new install of Ubuntu.

Stylish Trendy,

Mar 17, 2009

How important it is in terms of generating traffic?

Joedawson,

Mar 17, 2009

I'm well impressed with the TweetDeck Facebook Connect integration and look forward to further innovation :)

Jones Rob,

Mar 17, 2009

Although this is a smart move by Tweetdeck I much prefer the Selective Twitter Status app for Facebook developed by @andyy - see http://bit.ly/19sKcc and it's completely software independent!