Google Friend Connect
Earlier this week on December 15th 2008, Google’s Official Blog wrote a post on how Twitter was integrated with Google Friend Connect service.
This allows Twitter users now to sign in and join in with this social networking service by using Twitter Ids now so you tweet about the sites you join or find other Twitter users in your community.
Twitter Plays Fair
Quickly word spread that Twitter slapped Facebook & Myspace in the face with this breaking news but Twitter CEO Evan Williams had this to tweet about it, saying “For the record: Twitter did not “choose Google, not Facebook.” We’re working with both. We have more to do on the FB side before launch.”
Turns out Twitter wants to debunk rumors on siding with just Google, but what about Myspace you ask?
Twitter was originally one of the launch partners for Myspace ID (similiar to Google Friend Connect and FacebookConnect) Myspace has been using Google Friend Connect currently and is awaiting integration with Twitter.
Twitter’s Biz Stone also quoted from Tech Crunch here saying
Twitter plans to integrate with the open initiatives offered by our friends at MySpace, Facebook, and Google. We officially announced our intent to work with MySpace back in May because we believe strongly in offering the exchange of public information between our complimentary services.
Integrating with MySpace as well as FacebookConnect will require some development effort on our part. Now that we have 13 software engineers working at Twitter and our reliability continues to improve we’re getting closer to integrating with your favorite social networks
2 cents
So it appears Twitter want’s to be friends with everyone and is playing it very safe along the lines on who to side with. Twitter seems at this point very smart to keep a hush hush business advertising model and playing it fair on all sides.
Keep in mind Twitter was offered a buyout from Facebook earlier and was turned down. More and more big players are viewing Twitter as “The Hot New Toy” recently, the question is who will Twitter play with the most?
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sounds wonderful to me i have a social network that i am trying to make bigger i know its not that advanced like everyone elses but i love it so much that i know it can be great. and with my social network im hoping to integrate with facebook myspace and twitter somehow.