Facebook Cedes Content to Twitter for Facebook Pages, Not Profiles!

By Social Editors • on August 24, 2009

eWeek — Facebook allows administrators of Facebook Pages to post Facebook photos, events, links and status updates to Twitter. However, this sharing feature won’t work for individual users who want to take Facebook content to Twitter. So, users can still bring tweets into Facebook, but can’t bring content stored in Facebook out.

On Aug. 20, 2009, Facebook said it’s allowing administrators of Facebook Pages to automatically post Facebook updates to Twitter, building a narrow bridge to its microblogging rival.

Facebook Pages are special profiles public figures, musicians, businesses and organizations use as marketing tools, or to just keep their fans abreast of what’s going on with them. Soon, these Pages proprietors will be able to share a status update, photo or an event happening with their followers on Twitter, boosting their marketing messaging.

Comedian-actor Dane Cook, LIVESTRONG, The World Wildlife Fund, the NBA, WNBA and D-League are currently using this feature to publish the content on their Facebook Page to Twitter to reach a broader audience.

Mike Gummelt, who built the feature to let Facebook Page admins port content to Twitter as a summer intern from Stanford University, said in a blog post that admins will be able to control the sharing of status updates, links, photos, notes and events. Admins running multiple Pages will be able to link each of those Pages to different Twitter accounts….

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