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Want to Plurk on Twitter? Feedtweeter has you covered
When Twitter users recently stumbled onto Plurk, it gained a big chunk of new users who like the interface, but want to remain active on Twitter as well. Now there's a solution, and it's called Feedtweeter. Right now, all it does is push your Plurks to Twitter, taking out any fancy formatting that wouldn't come across in a tweet. However, support is planned for feeding other services into Twitter, including Flickr, del.icio.us, and YouTube. Feedtweeter is currently in closed beta.Plurking to Twitter is attractive because they're both the same type of service: microblogging. But even though something you write on Plurk might be perfect for Twitter, pushing every link you post on del.icio.us into a Twitter account might be, well, spam. We've seen this before with other services that post to Twitter via RSS feeds, and we don't really need another one of those. What's useful here is realizing that Plurks might have formatting issues that make them hard to feed into Twitter, and offering a solution to the issue.
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Tony said 7:14PM on 6-11-2008
Man, all of this social messaging, tweets, plurks, jaikus, facebook status updates, myspace bulletins, blah blah blah is burning me the F out. There's just too much noise.
Social media is supposed to revolutionize the way information is shared and retrieved, not revolutionize the way I can be spammed.
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MikeonTV said 9:17PM on 6-11-2008
So how do I get in? Need invites
Eric B. said 1:22PM on 6-12-2008
Ping.fm is 20 times better
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wayne hastings said 12:09AM on 6-12-2008
Um, yeah, I'm not adopting the use of Twitter just so I can change to another service (Plurk) on a whim. All this frenzy of "new" web-based services blossoming will shake out a bit fairly soon, I'm certian. Survival of the fittest will be followed by a synthesis of some sort in the social messaging/networking space. In the meantime, enjoy the blizzard of creativity that is coming around. This isn't the final version, only a stage of evolution.
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Shariq Ansari said 1:20PM on 6-12-2008
How is this any different from http://twitterfeed.com/ which has been around for ages? :P
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Jay Hathaway said 1:22PM on 6-12-2008
I believe the difference is that this service takes the formatting out of the Plurk posts so that they'll appear properly on Twitter without using any extra characters. The developer calls it "spice."