Multi-ping… ping… ping…
I just updated my Twitter and my Facebook status message via ping.fm. (Found via Facereviews.) It's great that I can do this in one place, and I could even update my LiveJournal, Jaiku, MySpace etc. if I would be subscribed to those services.
There is a syntactical problem though. Facebook uses the "Sander ..." format, so your status has to be phrased with a verb. Like "Sander writes" or "Sander is blogging." But Twitter omits the name, and just asks what I'm doing. "Writing a blog post" would be the correct term there. In this case I complied to the Twitter conventions, but all my Facebook friends must think I'm a little looney now.
I also ran into a another little problem, which was that I already installed the Twitter application on Facebook, so now my status got updated twice. I'm afraid that our applications networks will be too complicated for us soon. We will create endless loops of broadcasting statusses, and similar endless loops of aggregating RSS feeds that get aggregated by aggregators that got their feed from aggregators that got fed via five more steps from the first aggregator... And then I'm even sort of a techie, how would ordinary users deal with this?
Probably they just never leave Facebook, yeah.
I need a real life.
Edit: After I wrote this, I realised I reached the same conclusion as Alexander van Elsas did a bit more eloquently a few days ago. Sorry, didn't mean to plagiarise.
so, in other words, this is a new form of spam, and a new tool from cluttering digital infrastructure :)
Yeah, but it's spam by your friends instead of viagra marketeers. 2.0, man. By the people, not the professionals.
spam 2.0 :)