14 DAY TRIAL // MySpace has been on somewhat of a downward trend lately but at least it’s starting to get with the times and, for once, it actually beat Facebook to the punch with the new two-way sync feature for Twitter. Users can now send out a tweet from MySpace and also set their status & mood on the social network from Twitter.
“Any U.S. user can opt-in to sync their status so that any update created on MySpace will appear in your Twitter feed and any Twitter feed update will appear within your MySpace status & mood,” Sharon Nguyen, senior product manager, wrote on the MySpace blog. “At MySpace, we believe in open content distribution and want to help users socialize around content in many different places. [...] Our new sync functionality is part of an ongoing effort to make it simple for people to share their status beyond MySpace and allow friends and followers to interact with that content Web-wide.”
MySpace claims that the feature has been requested by its users for a while and decided to give them an easy and secure way of updating both accounts at the same time. The sync feature uses OAuth to handle the data sharing making for a seamless and transparent process and removing the need to share any passwords. Users will be able to choose if the sync goes both ways or just from Twitter to MySpace or the other way around. Tweets will be marked as coming from MySpace and status updates on the social network will be shown to be originating from Twitter.
Interestingly, MySpace is actually the first large social network to enable full two-way synchronization for all of its users, potentially opening up the feature to a large number of users as the social networking site still attracts around 60 million unique visitors in the US each month. Twitter's Facebook app allows users to share their tweets on the social network and a recently unveiled feature for Page administrators allows them to send updates to Twitter at the same time they post on Facebook, but a complete two-way solution isn't available yet for all users.