Thursday, February 18, 2010

Google Buzz and Twitter: Probable Peaceful Partners


When you post a new tweet using Twitter, Google can import that tweet and send it out to your Buzz followers with the rest of your Buzz updates. You won’t have to jump through any hoops or use any back-door methods to make it happen. Twitter is officially supported by Buzz — the same is true ofFlickr (), Picasa (), Blogger () and YouTube ().

However, you won’t be able to publish out to Twitter using Buzz, which makes this all seem less useful. And since Buzz won’t aggregate tweets from your Twitter followers (unless you happen to be following them on Buzz and they also happen to be pushing their tweets into Buzz as described previously), you’ll still have to keep both Twitter and Buzz open to reach all your contacts across both networks.

That’s disappointing, but it’s no where near as disappointing as Buzz’s completely nonexistent relationship with Facebook.

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