Philosophy Timeline. Facebook Integration Arrives on TweetDeck. Over the weekend, Seesmic announced their own desktop application for Facebook, as well as plans to integrate Status Updates into their own Twitter client - Twhirl.
Today, popular Twitter client TweetDeck is beginning testing on a new version of its software that includes integration with Facebook as well. In a blog post, TweetDeck describes the functionality offered in what for now is an optional test version of the software: “You can click on the Facebook icon at the top and, once you have signed into Facebook and given TweetDeck authorization, this will add a new column full of each of your friends most recent status update which updates automatically once a minute. From here you can email the update out to anyone, tweet it out over twitter, view the users online status and if they are online right now click on their name (or the green online status indicator) to open Facebook chat right within TweetDeck.”
Tweetdeck is integrating twitter and facebook. TweetDeck, the Adobe Air desktop Twitter management application, has released a beta version of its 0.24 release with added support for Facebook services.
The TweetDeck 0.24 pre-release fully integrates Facebook functionality into the program in a few ways: You can monitor Facebook status updates directly within the utility, even creating a new column dedicated exclusively to those. You can also send outgoing messages to Facebook exclusively, or to Twitter and Facebook concurrently, eliminating the need for Facebook’s Twitter app (and also giving you a little more control compared to the options it had provided). Finally, you can see a Facebook user’s status, and — if he’s online — open a Facebook chat window with him right within the TweetDeck program. TweetDeck 0.24 will even let you pull content from one service into the other. For example, you can take a Facebook update and retweet it via Twitter. Tweetdeck vs Twhirl: It’s a very hard call. As Twitter continues to boom, so to does the market for 3rd party Twitter desktop clients.
The once champ of the desktop Twitteriffic was replaced by Twhirl at the top of the popular list last year, but new comer Tweetdeck is now getting a lot of attention, and according to some reports in now the most popular Twitter desktop client. I wasn’t a huge fan of Tweetdeck when it first launched, primarily due to its emphasis on a wide format.