When Social Apps Compete, YOU Lose!

Image by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML via Flickr

Many of us are using social applications to help us automate our various tweets, pings, plurks, and other assorted comments on the Web. One of the dangers that I ran into this morning was what happens when social apps conflict and/or compete.

I had set up Ping.fm to help me post to many social networks at once (i.e. Twitter, Friendfeed, Plurk, Hi5, etc.). Somehow, I managed to include my Blogger blogs as well. Imagine my surprise this morning when I discovered that my tweets were being posted to my blog! It was especially bad becaue I was demonstrating the difference between blogging platforms and Twitter. :-(

Needless to say, I sped over to Ping, and edited the list of networks as soon as I could. Now, I am off to check some of the other apps I use to make sure similar problems will not occur elsewhere in my content.