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# Facebook adopts years-old technology: woot?
- URL: https://werd.io/facebook-adopts-years-old-technology-woot/
- Published: 2007-08-15T14:15:09.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:00:59.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

[Dave Winer gushes about Facebook adding a handful of RSS feeds](http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/08/14/facebookIsOpeningUp.html). I'm less enthralled, which is underlined by some of the quotes from commenters he points out:

[Jeff Sandquist says](http://scripting.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/scripting-news-for-81407/#comment-100796), "I suspect this will allow me to send my Facebook status updates to Twitter."

Seriously, I think I just threw up a bit in my mouth. Surely there are more interesting applications we can find for web application interoperability than Facebook to Twitter? We have the potential to build a far-reaching, global, open platform that is available to anyone with a connected device. People are building networks and clouds and new devices we won't have even thought of yet; RSS on Facebook seems like just a bit of an anachronism.