DISQUS

Mark Bakalor · 1 year ago

Facebook had nothing to do with the removal. Evan Williams, Twitter founder, decided to remove the text after polling users. See his entry announcing the decision at http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/806769413

dbrowell · 1 year ago

Well, it's gone after a prolonged (48 hour +) downtime of the Twitter app for Facebook, so I'm as inclined to believe that it's only a temporary absence, possibly something ruby/code related versus an official plug-pulling of the "is twittering" feature.

Bryan · 1 year ago

Good move by Facebook. I thought it was kind of annoying, but then again, I'm not a big Twitter fan.

Mark Bakalor · 1 year ago

The change was put in place by Twitter and had nothing to do with downtime or Facebook itself.

David R. Strachan · 1 year ago

For some of us Twitter is not necessarily a medium for providing true status updates as it is a microblog - that is, providing snippets of insight or highlighting news items. So the "is twittering" prefix actually provided some much-needed context. For example, if I Twittered "Oil prices expected to reach $200 a barrel by mid 2009," the status update of "is twittering" helps with the flow. Otherwise it says "David is Oil prices are expected . . . etc," which is clumsy. I actually removed the app as a result of the change.

Eric Dewhirst · 1 year ago

It definitely had a lot of branding for Twitter - however it also drove me a bit nutty. I can honestly say that I was close to dumping a few people from my Facebook Friends list because of the constant updates. What happens is those that are Twitter addicts dominate your status updates on FB and so you never see your other friends status updates. Old friends from High School - update their status once a day - not 20 times a day.

Twitter is a tough one for me - I want a little bit of status updates on my friends but not a constant stream of broadcast. I think it is really great for people like you Nick who need to be plugged in 24/7 with what the latest scoop is. But someone like me if it is news of any value - TC, Mashable or allFB will report it.

I for one hope that Twitter on FB does not come back and I hope they block FriendFeed as well. Not being a grump - but if I wanted Twitter I would have Twitter - but with Twitter integrated with FB I essentially am getting something I did not ask for or want.

Cheer - Eric

David Patton · 1 year ago

I believe this was a intentional move by Twitter. Evan Williams, @ev, was conducting a twitter poll about it just a couple of days ago.

http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/805780975
http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/806769413

then they fixed the issue with "is"

http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/807446640