Facebook Updates to Twitter (for a Select Few)

The good news: Facebook finally included a feature to allow page owners to syndicate their Facebook updates to Twitter. The bad news: The feature is targeted toward celebrities, brands and other users that manage Facebook pages, and not individual users, according to TechCrunch.

Several Facebook applications already exist that allow users to import Twitter updates into Facebook, but this marks the first step in the other direction.

TechCrunch speculated that Facebook may be reluctant to open the feature up to all users as it is attempting to make inroads into search, but opening up its status updates would actually boost traffic to Facebook.

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