INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
You can no longer automatically cross-post your tweets to Facebook
Twitter announced today that functionality is now coming to an end, and users will instead have to copy a tweet URL if they want to share a
tweet to Facebook going forward
In a statement, the company attributed the change to a recent Facebook update.
We&ve learned that Tweets and Retweets will no longer
automatically post to connected Facebook accounts due to a recent Facebook update.
Don''t worry, you have other ways to share a Tweet
https://t.co/fiwInkuyz7
mdash; Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) August 1, 2018
Specifically, the issue has to do with Facebook lockdown
of its API platform — an overhaul that been underway following the Cambridge Analytica scandal,where as many as 87 million Facebook users
had their data improperly harvested and shared.
Since then, Facebook has been plugging holes in its API platform to prevent future data
One of those changes involves Facebook Login, announced back in April
The company said that apps that had been granted permission to publish posts to Facebook as the logged-in user would no longer have that
New apps wouldn''t be able use this feature the day the change was announced
And in the case of older apps, the permission would be revoked on August 1, 2018 — that today.
Facebook also said developers who were
previously using the API could instead turn to Facebook Share dialogsforweb,iOSandAndroid
But Twitter statement didn''t mention there would be an alternative means of sharing built back into Twitter, beyond using its existing
&Copy link to Tweet& feature
This is a manual way of sharing tweets, of course, and not a replacement for what is being lost.
The option to set up Facebook sharing
hasn''t completelydisappeared from Twitter app as of yet.
Facebook still appears within the &Apps& section via the web, with the button
&Login to Facebook& seemingly waiting to be clicked
However, this option will no longer work as of today
Instead, it returns the error: Facebook reported an error
The error has been reported to our engineering team
Please try again as it might be a temporary problem.
It doesn''t seem like Twitter users looking for other workarounds will have much
success either, given this situation
Other apps, like IFTTT, for example, are throwing errors as of today, too.
