• eWeek, Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:38 PM

Twitter just flipped the switch on a new feature that is supposed to let users to find and follow their Facebook friends. "Satisfying a heavily requested feature, [Twitter] upgraded its Facebook application to show Twitter users what Facebook friends of theirs are on Twitter," reports eWeek.

Users should be able to then save them to a Twitter List and post tweets to a Facebook profile and Facebook Pages. Last eWeek checked, however, the service wasn't running properly. Making matters worse, Twitter Product Manager Josh Elman initially blamed Facebook for the issue. "The Facebook app cannot currently access your Facebook friend list," said Elman. "We believe this is an issue on Facebook's end." A Twitter spokesperson later told eWeek: "Facebook has notified us that they have blocked the update to our application, and we are working on a resolution with them." Can't social networks just get along?

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