Facebook erroneously sucking in Twitter updates

By Social Editors • on August 1, 2009

Facebook erroneously sucking in Twitter updates

CNet News Webware — Reports are surfacing that Twitter users’ updates are showing up on their Facebook walls, quite against their wishes.

Twitter previously developed a Facebook app for users of both services that takes in a user’s Twitter content and posts it on Facebook. Apparently a lot of people installed it but left it turned off, and now Facebook is, in error, ignoring the setting and letting the app do what it was designed to do even if users don’t want it.

There are also reports that the same thing is happening with the Friendfeed app, which quite complicates things since many people give Friendfeed itself access to their Twitter feeds.

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