So it appears that Facebook is now blocking a new feature of Twitter’s Facebook app. The particular feature lets you find who out of your Facebook friends also has a Twitter account.
As you can see above, I got the message, “It appears that the connection between Facebook and Twitter isn’t working, we are working with Facebook to resolve this problem.”
TechCrunch is now reporting that the move may be unintentional, and that Twitter said “Facebook has notified us that they have blocked the update to our application, and we are working on a resolution with them.”
Well I certainly hope this block is unintentional. After all the criticism over Facebook’s lack of openness and constant erosion of trust, blocking a feature like this from one of its major competitors would be a really bad move, don’t you think?
As has been suggested, it might have been blocked automatically because it was getting too much traffic all at once and they had to pull the plug. That would make sense, considering the very impressive ongoing growth of Twitter.
