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I think they’re trying to give webmasters an, on the surface of it, easy answer to a question that’s not so easy to solve in most cases. Google has tried to explain to people how they handle duplicate content and the things they need to do to prevent it, but people still pound them with questions. Now they can simply say ... use the canonical tag. This is definitely a ’best practice’ now, but it’s not the end-all be-all of duplicate content, which a lot of people are making it out to be. Awesome work @jdevalk and thanks for the great plugin once again.
This is pretty hilarious ... lots of drama over the Facebook twitter app. I think the article was definitely misleading because the Twitter facebook app mentioned doesn’t give an advantage in Facebook. It updates your status which replaces the last status, which gets thrown in your feed on your profile page. The great thing about Facebook is that it manages your home feed for you. It knows that no one wants to see a bunch of status updates from people using Twitter, so it doesn’t show them. It only shows a select few status messages at the top, which it determines relevant to you by your behavior.I’ve found some people to be curious (in more of a negative way) as to how, or why, I feel the need to update Facebook so often, but I’ve also seen a lot of people much more engaged with my because my status messages are current. I get a lot of positive convos started because of a status messages, which I update via Twitter.So ... some people are wierded out by it and some will enjoy it, but it hardly "gives you a huge advantage on Facebook" or is percieved as SPAM (unless your tweets are SPAM of course).
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