Twitter feeds overwhelm Facebook

Mike Bantick
Thursday, 30 July 2009 11:25

Your IT - Entertainment

For an hour or two today, users of social networks Twitter and Facebook experienced a convergence explosion as status update tweets invaded Facebook walls.

Whilst it is actually a feature of the Twitter application within Facebook, many users of the social network services disable the option of linking status updates.

For a few hours today however, people with linked accounts experienced a period of chatter at a level greater than usual.

If you were a friend of, or yourself happen to be one who favoured the different services for different information impartation, the experience of seeing tweets intermingling with Facebook updates was a little unnerving.

At this time, it looks as if either Facebook itself or – more likely – the Twitter or FriendFeed application in Facebook was the cause of the issue.  Seemingly Facebook began ignoring the privacy settings of the Twitter application.

The error was soon rectified, with all offending Tweets disappearing of Walls around the world.

Whilst no indication of what went wrong is forthcoming, both social networks have now returned to normality.   With people now able to exchange 140 character million ideas at one level, whilst exchanging drunken party images at another.