Google+ Ecosystem Advantage

First thing I looked for when I tipped my toe into Google+ was how I can repost my Tweets. Back in the day I did that with Buzz and some rightfully say that is what killed Google Buzz, as people didn’t check back to see what is going on. I didn’t.

Mmmh, what if I send my Tweets to Facebook, that stream to Google+ and from there back to Twitter? Would that Tweet get posted around and around ever faster, as every social network wants to proof their speed? Over time my circle tweet would take up more and more resources everything else would get slower. Eventually everything would get sucked up into my tweet rounds. A small black hole would develop around it and swallow our whole solar system. [Cue up manic laughter] I knew exactly what the text of my tweet would be: All work and no play makes Mark a dull boy ;-)

Alas my little fantasy of my world destruction came to an abrupt halt when reading Yarif Zur’s Google+ thread where he was wondering the same thing: OK. I give up. How to I post on twitter so it shows in G+? The consensus was that it isn’t possible, until this morning, when Orit Zuckerman posted:

Orit Zuckerman's profile photo

Orit Zuckerman – hot from the press: If you haven’t seen it yet:
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this will let you share plus posts with fb or twitter 2:39 AM

Mohamed Mansour has developed a Chrome extension that let’s you forward your Google+ posts to Twitter as well as Facebook.

The interesting thing is, that this wasn’t Google developing it, it was a Chrome developer. Turns out it was done a couple of days ago already, as it has been written up on TechCrunch.

I searched and I could not find an extension for Twitter, it may be because there are no Google+ APIs yet. A shrewd business decision on Google’s part to avoid the Buzz history.

Nevertheless, advantage Google+ via their ecosystem and Chrome based platform extension. Have developers on your side you win. Take good care of your developers, they are creating your future.

Of course Seesmic or other universal clients canlevel the playing field.

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