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Yesterday Facebook launched their new tagging feature worldwide to their users.  The feature is simple – to tag one of your Facebook friends, you just start typing their name, prefixed by “@”, and their name appears in a drop-down that you can select.  Their name will then be linked to their Facebook profile in their status update on Facebook, and an e-mail sent to that individual to notify them they were tagged.  This also works with the Pages you are a fan of, and applications you use.  As you know though, SocialToo Status has provided friend tagging for several weeks before Facebook announced this new feature.

Today I’m happy to announce that we’re enhancing our tagging even further.  Now, no longer do you have to type your friends’ names in the box (in fact, we’ve removed the box).  Now you just have to select the SocialToo Status green quote icon, enter your status update as you normally would, prefixing any names you want to tag with “@”, just like you would with a normal status update, and when you hit submit, those names will automatically appear next to your status update as tagged, just like they used to, but much less effort necessary on your part!

There’s more though.  Now, when you tag your friends on Facebook and enable SocialToo Status, if you check the “Twitter” box, we’ll automatically search SocialToo’s large database of Facebook users with Twitter accounts. If the users you have tagged have already registered their Twitter account with SocialToo and associated that with a Facebook account we will automatically replace the tagged name with their Twitter handle, in @reply fashion to get their attention on Twitter as well!  If the user is not yet in our database we will just put their Facebook name in its place.

If you ever had a reason to convince your Twitter friends to try SocialToo Status now’s the time!  Be sure to check out our #socialchange contest and you, or they can have the chance to win free status e-mails for life!  We’re continuing to change the Social web landscape with SocialToo – keep sending us your ideas!

You can learn how to enable SocialToo Status on your Facebook account via our earlier blog post.

Tags: @replies, facebook, friend tagging, socialchange, tagging, twitter

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