Last week Facebook announced that soon administrators of Facebook Pages will be able to push their status updates automatically to their Twitter followers. This feature is being rolled out as you read this, but it is only available on Facebook pages, not individual profiles. This application was designed by a college student interning at Facebook over the summer, and that it even came to be at all is somewhat surprising given that the two social networking services are widely perceived as rivals.
I would not be holding your breath for a similar app for individual profiles, however.
However, by allowing Facebook pages to broadcast to Twitter, the pages may actually end up becoming more popular than they already are as a result of all the additional exposure on Twitter.
From the Facebook blog:
If you manage a Facebook Page, you now will be able to decide whether to share updates with their Twitter followers, and you also will be able to control what type of updates to share: status updates, links, photos, notes, events or all of them. If you have multiple Pages, you will have the option to link each of those Pages to different Twitter accounts.
Read the entire blog post and find the app here.
