{"id":9703,"date":"2009-09-21T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-21T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T19:02:00","slug":"myspace-syncs-with-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/9703-myspace-syncs-with-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"MySpace syncs with Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The News Corp-owned online social networking service said it is rolling out a test version of software that lets its US members stream real-time comments to MySpace and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your status update is a quick way to tell friends what you&#8217;re up to, or in to,&#8221; MySpace senior product manager Sharon Nguyen said in a message at the firm&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our new sync functionality is part of an ongoing effort to make it simple for people to share their status beyond MySpace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Any US user can opt-in to have updates created on MySpace appear in Twitter feeds and Twitter updates simultaneously fed to MySpace pages, according to Nguyen.<\/p>\n<p>Online social networking pioneer MySpace has been eclipsed by market leader Facebook, while Twitter&#8217;s popularity has been rocketing and the microblogging service claims more than 300 million members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=193306\"><strong>MySpace and Twitter<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MySpace on Monday began synchronizing user status updates with wildly popular microblogging service Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}