Next feature request: Use . ? ! as end-of-tweet characters for republishing from Google+ to Twitter. Even better: Use the appearance of a second asterisk, for those of us who like to put headlines on our Google+ posts using bolded text.
In other words, what I’m looking for is a way to use what I write on Google+ to control what appears on Twitter, and do it in a way thats invisible to the people following me on G+.
Chris Pilgrim I’ve checked it and it looks like some weird glitch in our shortener code and we’re unable to simulate this unfortunate situation. Thank you for reporting this but for now we’ll have to wait for another appearance and hopefully will dig out some more info.
It would be great if there were some indication on Facebook posts that something was a re-share and that the text was not my own. Don’t necessarily want to include original link just to indicate the words weren’t me. Great stuff otherwise!
Just a “bug” report for Friends+Me – when you share a photo to twitter, the photo is horribly distorted on the twitter “view photo” link, but displays properly when you link back to the google+ page.
Christopher Carr oh I see, actually you can disable this backlink by disabling “Always append a link to original Google+ activity” for your Facebook account.
Alois Bělaška I rebooted my FB account nearly a year ago — now just meat-space acquaintances, real friends, and family. Thanks to you, they are all (selectively) now subjected to my nerdy G+ activity. Tehehe 🙂 … perhaps they would not care to thank you, but yours is now the best way to pipe stuff G+ –> Twitter, FB.
This Friends+Me endeavor will look good on a future resume, I’m pretty sure.
I had the same itch — but I just don’t have all the requisite knowledge and skills; would have taken me a year to figure out everything you’ve done in the last week. 🙂
I’ve found out, that Facebook is blocking some goo.gl links. It’s crazy. I can’t tell why, but some links shortened by goo.gl are blocked, but the same links shortened by bit.ly are ok.
Right now I am implementing bit.ly support. Who wants to help and alpha test this?
It just looks better this way 🙂
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Mohamed Ibrihen still 30 minutes, but it should be back to 5 minutes quite soon.
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A big thank you to you guys to what you have done so far and I knoe with time this is only going to get better!
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That’s the plan. Higher, faster, better 😉
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Love it! Thanks!
Next feature request: Use . ? ! as end-of-tweet characters for republishing from Google+ to Twitter. Even better: Use the appearance of a second asterisk, for those of us who like to put headlines on our Google+ posts using bolded text.
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In other words, what I’m looking for is a way to use what I write on Google+ to control what appears on Twitter, and do it in a way thats invisible to the people following me on G+.
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My last tweeted Google+ post with the new http://goo.gl shortened url wouldn’t open the appended link 😦
Edit: Here is a Dropbox hosted screenshot image of message recieved when clicking on the aforementioned short link – http://db.tt/OWDaD0hJ
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Chris Pilgrim I’ve checked it and it looks like some weird glitch in our shortener code and we’re unable to simulate this unfortunate situation. Thank you for reporting this but for now we’ll have to wait for another appearance and hopefully will dig out some more info.
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It would be great if there were some indication on Facebook posts that something was a re-share and that the text was not my own. Don’t necessarily want to include original link just to indicate the words weren’t me. Great stuff otherwise!
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Alois Bělaška My latest posts are working fine now 🙂 Initial problem seems to be a one off.
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Casey Artner more people wants that feature. I guess I can extend “—” separator to empty_new_line+”— Reshared post from USER NAME”. What do you think?
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Chris Pilgrim awesome, that’s the way I like it 🙂
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Alois Bělaška Sounds good to me, but would have to see it to be sure and obviously your call.
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Casey Artner I am working on it right now
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I’ve changed separator between user message and shared message to ‘▼ Reshared Post From {ORIGINAL_USER_NAME} ▼’ .
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Looks like links are broken. Try this tweet and link:
https://twitter.com/agektmr/status/279085579038240768
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Eiji Kitamura checking
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Chris Pilgrim Eiji Kitamura it was a bug, fixed it. Thank you guys.
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Just a “bug” report for Friends+Me – when you share a photo to twitter, the photo is horribly distorted on the twitter “view photo” link, but displays properly when you link back to the google+ page.
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Alois Bělaška Thanks!
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Rodney Thomas yes I see https://twitter.com/GoSkins81/status/279636743643361280 picture is really distorted. Unfortunately there’s nothing I can do about it. Looks like TwitterBot got mad 😉
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hahaha – thankfully my wife and daughter are much better looking than that twitter distortion
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Rodney Thomas 🙂
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Great improvements. The reshared post indication on FB is also much appreciated.
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Oh, and you stripped out the tags on Twitter summaries. 🙂
Still F+Me shortlinks on FB though, eh?
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Christopher Carr what shortlinks do you mean?
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On FB, “Repost of Google+ Photo Album” is followed by a r.friendsplus.me/long_string link.
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Christopher Carr oh I see, actually you can disable this backlink by disabling “Always append a link to original Google+ activity” for your Facebook account.
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Friends+Me : Understood.
Does FB not allow goog shortlinks?
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Christopher Carr I think they do, but I have had not the time to implement it yet 😉
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Ah. Well you’ve clearly been busy lately (considering all the improvements). No hurries. 🙂
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Alois Bělaška I rebooted my FB account nearly a year ago — now just meat-space acquaintances, real friends, and family. Thanks to you, they are all (selectively) now subjected to my nerdy G+ activity. Tehehe 🙂 … perhaps they would not care to thank you, but yours is now the best way to pipe stuff G+ –> Twitter, FB.
This Friends+Me endeavor will look good on a future resume, I’m pretty sure.
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Thank you Christopher Carr I can’t even express how grateful I am for your appreciation. It all started as my own itch I wanted to scratch 🙂
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Christopher Carr I’ve fixed the link in photo reposts to Facebook. Should be shorter.
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Cool.
I had the same itch — but I just don’t have all the requisite knowledge and skills; would have taken me a year to figure out everything you’ve done in the last week. 🙂
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Don’t be so hard on yourself. It’s just a matter of time, hard work and a lot of fun of course 😀
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Alois Bělaška Here’s a strange thing:
“Warning: This Message Contains Blocked Content: Some content in this message has been reported as abusive by Facebook users.”
This is the post:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/104472936943065371401/posts/5q1yEfgc9ub
I assume it’s an FB API thing. But what the heck…?
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Christopher Carr yes this is a Facebook thing 🙂 For months I am trying to figure out why this happens, so far no luck. Maybe curse less 😀
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“Maybe curse less”
They are flagging “ass,” apparently. Which is…well, pretty damn ridiculous.
Just another thing to add to my list of why FB sucks…
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Got this again:
Repost failed. Warning: This Message Contains Blocked Content: Some content in this message has been reported as abusive by Facebook users.
Here’s the post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104472936943065371401/posts/CFxJnku94XZ
No coarse language at all. What the heck, FB?
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I’ve found out, that Facebook is blocking some goo.gl links. It’s crazy. I can’t tell why, but some links shortened by goo.gl are blocked, but the same links shortened by bit.ly are ok.
Right now I am implementing bit.ly support. Who wants to help and alpha test this?
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