If you established a Ping identity in iTunes 10 and then , briefly thereafter , ignored it , it may be time to revisit it . Today Ping links virtual arms with Twitter .
pick out Ping in iTunes 10 ’s rootage list and , at the top of your Ping pages , you ’ll feel a raw Connect To Twitter To chance Friends And deal Your Ping Activity entry . penetrate on Connect To Twitter and you ’ll be prompted for your Twitter user name or link eastward - mail name and address and watchword . Enter it and you ’re taken to a Friends On Twitter page . If any of your friends have also established a connection between Ping and Twitter , their public figure will appear here . choose those that you ’d care to follow on Ping .
Now that you infer how it work , let me excuse why I do n’t care it in its current bod .
But Twitter and Facebook are dissimilar beasts . The absolute majority of Twitter exploiter I sleep together utilise some sort of node that fight tweets their way . Although you may certainly be notified of Facebook posts , Facebook drug user often confab their Facebook page via a Web browser app to see what ’s new in that worldly concern . So , Twitter = bear on and Facebook = overstretch .
This intend that when someone with a linked Ping / Twitter relationship the likes of , post , review , or recommends medicine , it ’s pushed out to their Twitter flow and then pushed into the look of their followers . And yes , that meanseverylike , post , review , and testimonial . Currently it ’s all or nothing — anything you do on Ping is pushed out to Twitter .
If you do something Ping - link once a workweek , this is n’t so terrible . Your follower will likely forgive the occasional Ping tweet . But the dot of Ping is to be societal . And for social to go you have to work at it . And that mean fill your Twitter current with Ping military post , which — at least in the receiving end of my earth — means I either create filters to block any tweets that contain # iTunes tags or I stop following you . And that strikes me as anti - social . Is becoming a well - known Twitter pain in the neck really the best way to promote Ping ?
As I write this , Ping has had Twitter integration for all of half an hour so it ’s far too soon to say that Apple still does n’t understand social networking . But I do n’t remember it ’s too soon to hint that a couple of changes are needed .
