Google Friend Connect syncs up with Twitter

These data portability announcements keep rolling on: On Monday, Google announced that its Google Friend Connect product, which plugs social-networking features into participating sites, is now compatible with Twitter.

So what does this mean? Well, if you go to a site that uses Google Friend Connect, you can opt to use your Twitter credentials to log in to it. Then, as the official Google blog explained, you can then find which of your other Twitter friends are using the same site. Also, you can send out a "tweet" announcing that you've joined up.

Twitter was one of the launch partners for the MySpace Data Availability service, now known as MySpaceID. That has yet to launch, but MySpace has used Google Friend Connect to power the standard, so this could be a sign that it's still on the way.

What's not on Twitter yet? Facebook Connect, the rival log-in product developed by the social network, which rolled out to a full launch on the same day as Google Friend Connect. Rumor has it that Facebook tried to buy Twitter in a failed $500 million deal. There's still no reason to assume Twitter won't integrate Facebook Connect, but for now, it's just Google's alternative.

[dcmichie]

Twitter is a partner in Facebook Connect according to Mashable,

http://mashable.com/2008/07/23/facebook-connect-launches/

[neofreko]

Okay, now Google FriendConnect is one step closer to facebook connect in reagard of friends network. Now we must wait again until Google unleash Friend Activity gadget for public consumption. Until then, we must cope with MyBlogLog badge clone.

[SocialMind]

Twitter let the cat out of the bag on their blog when they said that Google did all the work in this integration - making it a no brainer for them. With the integration of Facebook, there will be a need for Twitter's techies to do some work, as well as Facebooks. I don't think there's a doubt that that will come in the next few months.