Facebook temporarily removed status updates cross-posted from Twitter

For ages, you could hook up your Facebook account to Twitter, allowing you to automatically post tweets as a status update.

That feature stopped working earlier this month when Facebook made changes to its API, and as reported by TechCrunch, Facebook status updates that were crossposted from Twitter mysteriously vanished around Tuesday.

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A Facebook spokesperson explained to Mashable that the deletion resulted from a Twitter administrator’s request for the app to be deleted, but it’s now been fixed.

“[It] resulted in content that people had cross-posted from Twitter to Facebook also being temporarily removed from people’s profiles. However, we have since restored the past content and it’s now live on people’s profiles,” the statement reads. Read more…

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source https://mashable.com/2018/08/29/facebook-scrubs-twitter-updates/

source https://derekpackard.com/facebook-temporarily-removed-status-updates-cross-posted-from-twitter/