The message was short, simple, and decisive.
There is no other way to put it.
F.
U.
That is all.
Twitter introduced a new Facebook application that allows the social network to farm friends from Facebook and add them as people you follow on Twitter. It was up and working well… for a few minutes.
Now, here’s what it looks like:
Apparently, Facebook didn’t care for the integration. Whether this is a temporary block or not, we do not know for sure. While I don’t want to put words (or letters) into Facebook’s mouth, it is very likely that the application is being blocked on Facebook’s side to prevent potential leaking of users.
From Techcrunch:
Twitter and Facebook have had an interesting/contentious relationship over the years. Facebook tried to acquired the company in late 2008, and when that failed, Facebook features mysteriously started to look more like Twitter. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently admitted he was too focused on Twitter in the past when he saw their fast growth.
Facebook was also hugely underreporting the number of users using the Twitter app until very recently. The Twitter app on Facebook is a top 40 app.
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