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Beth Winter ([personal profile] winter) wrote2010-09-01 07:05 am
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Technical note on Twitter / Facebook crossposting and pingbacks

Because LJ is a dolt again:

- Pingbacks means that if you have pingbacks turned on and user X has pingbacks turned on, once user X posts a public link to your entry, you get an automatic comment to this entry telling you they're done it. Nothing more. A poor man's Google Alert for your LJ's URL.

- Yes, the placement of the FB/Twitter crossposting tickyboxes sucks. I've said. Here's a temporary cure.

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