Twitter Frustrated Over Facebook’s Non-Cooperation

Co-founder of one of the most famous website Twitter, Evan Williams, spoke this Wednesday, regarding his ‘frustration’ on the matter that Facebook does not allows Twitter users to search their friends through Facebook or even send any posts of Facebook to Twitter. In a reply to John Battelle, co-founder of the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, whether or not he was frustrated, he said: “We like our users to be able to tap into Facebook to make their Twitter experience better.”

Noticeable theme of the conference was the lack of cooperation between Web companies, especially over sharing social information between different giant social websites. However, Williams also confessed saying that he understands Facebook’s reluctance and that the two companies are talking, in these words: “They see their social graph as their core asset, and they want to make sure there’s a win-win relationship with anybody who accesses it.” Furthermore, he also added “We’re talking to them often to see if there is a way to work together, but so far neither side has found out a way to do that other than what we’ve done already.”

On the topic of the upcoming Twitter products, and the future strategies and goals of Twitter, he answered claiming that the company is very paying attention on surfacing the most relevant posts among the infinite number of tweets daily, his words were: “There’s a hundred million tweets a day,” and Twitter is trying to answer the question: “Which ones matter to you?”

Twitter has already licensed the stream to companies including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, which display it regularly. But upon inquiry of the partnership with Gnip, a social media analytics company announced this Wednesday. He replied informing that Gnip will license half the Twitter posts in the live Twitter stream to any company that wants to use it for analysis, but not to display the posts.

Lastly, he also declared that “We’ve gotten demand from companies that want to look at this data to learn about trends and analytics for marketers and other companies,” but he also said “There’s a million ways to slice and dice this data and a lot of companies in that business and we’re not really in that business,” which is why Twitter is no working with Gnip.