FriendFeed Can Now ‘Push’ Your Thoughts on to Twitter
FriendFeed has added a new feature that allows you to “push” your posted items on to Twitter. Much like the existing “reply” feature, which allows you to reply to Twitter messages from FriendFeed, the new option makes it easy to automatically cross-post to both services. The difference that now any type of post is fair game, not just Twitter replies.
Of course the danger with this feature is that there will be more duplicates in your activity stream. Even worse is the potential for the infinite loop — post in FriendFeed, push to Twitter, pull to FriendFeed, push to Twitter and so on forever.
Luckily FriendFeed has anticipated this problem and any post that originates in FriendFeed and is pushed on to Twitter will be ignored when FriendFeed pulls your Twitter posts in.
To enable the new feature, head to your account settings and scoll down the the bottom of the page. Once you turn on the Twitter push feature, you’ll need to enter your Twitter login info and then you can select which types of content you’d like to send on to Twitter. Unfortunately there is no way to push content on a per-item basis.
While the new push feature worked just fine in my testing, picking Twitter as a push destination seems a bit odd. Because FriendFeed handles so many different types of content compared to Twitter — inline photos, video, etc — pushing those items on to Twitter seems like a waste — rich media content will simple become a link on Twitter.
However, the push model does seem like it would be incredibly useful if it were extended to other services — imagine being able to push all your posts on to a bookmarking service like ma.gnolia or delicious, or perhaps push content on to a WordPress blog via XML-RPC. Then you’d have a nice simple way of archiving photos and videos or even making blog posts from within FriendFeed.
Hopefully FriendFeed will extend its push services, but in the meantime, if you’re looking for an easy way to get your content onto Twitter, the new features have you covered.
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