insidefacebook.com - 7/16/2009
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While it’s too early to tell exactly what this means, Facebook engineer Blake Ross today posted a “test” tweet from a Twitter application called “Penguin FB” that resides on Facebook development servers. One interesting possibility: Facebook is working on a new, ...
techcrunch.com - 7/16/2009
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techcrunch.com —
On Tuesday evening more than 300 confidential Twitter
documents and screenshots landed in our inbox . We...
said we were going to post a handful of them only , and we’ve spent much of the last 36 hours talking directly to Twitter about the ...
(more)
Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse ...
blog.facebook.com - 7/15/2009
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blog.facebook.com —
As of today, 250 million people are using
Facebook to stay updated on what's happening around them...
and share with the people in their lives...
(more)
Now Connecting 250 Million People
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 7/13/2009
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Pengiun FB: A truce offering or Trojan Horse from Facebook to Twitter?
VentureBeat —
... Now this is interesting. Facebook, which at one point a few months ago seemed set on becoming Twitter, might now be experimenting with a way of making its service interoperate rather smoothly with the microblogging service. Earlier today, Inside Facebook spotted a tweet from Facebook developer ...
Penguin: Facebook’s Future Twitter App?
Mashable! —
... The tweet, which we first learned about via Inside Facebook, is a test tweet from the unknown application. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Blake has ...
Tweeting via Facebook?
ReadWriteWeb —
... Inside Facebook, the blue giant may be working on a native Twitter application as evidenced by engineer Blake Ross' tweet from an application named "Penguin FB" on Facebook's development servers. Asks Inside Facebook's writer Justin Smith, "Is Facebook about to become the largest source of tweets?" The company did not comment on the "Penguin FB" project and Ross has since deleted the "Penguin FB" test tweet. For now, the public is left in the dark as to what all this means. ...
Facebook testing native Twitter integration?
Tech Digest —
... or, in this case, by trying to hold on to a lot of the traffic through the API. Doubtless, we'll hear more about it soon. (via Facebook Insider) ...
Facebook Testing New "Penguin FB" Twitter App?
WebProNews Feed —
... InsideFacebook reports that they contacted company, asking about the Penguin FB app and they had no comment. Shortly after that, Blake ...
Indeed: Facebook Launches Tool for Facebook Pages to Syndicate Posts to Twitter
Inside Facebook —
... A few weeks ago, we noticed a test tweet from Facebook that looked like the company might be working on a new way to syndicate status updates to Twitter. Today, Facebook just launched exactly that. ...
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