Facebook is Ready to Rule the (Social Network) World

16.03.2009

Add this into the Facebook win column, too: Just Monday, Twitter desktop utility announced of its software that integrates Facebook functionality as well. TweetDeck 0.24.1 lets you send and receive both tweets and Facebook updates all within a single interface. The software gives you the option of adding a separate section to monitor your Facebook stream right next to your Twitter stuff.

What's perhaps most interesting about the update, though, is that it lets you seamlessly cross-post from one service to the other. Say, for example, you want to share a friend's Facebook status on your Twitter stream. Click a button and you can "retweet" it as if it were a Twitter message. With Twitter's own , this placement will no doubt be a big boon for the big "F" -- and TweetDeck says even more Facebook-Twitter integration is on the way.

Some may be predicting an inevitable in the future, but I suspect any potential doomsday is the furthest thing from the minds of Facebook's elite right now. With the company's and Web-wide system also at play -- not to mention the and -- privacy debacle last month -- these days, the view from Mark Zuckerberg's chair has gotta be looking pretty sweet.

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