Swandives

I’m putting it out there, in the hope that universe will provide (or already provides, and I just need to be made aware it exists):

Please sir, I want a universal status updater.

What’s a universal status updater? Well, I don’t know if I’m having a ‘the future is now’ moment here, but it’s a little application that allows you to automatically update the status on all your social networks without having to log into each one and do it manually. I don’t even use Twitter and without even noticing, I suddenly have five statuses that need regular feeding:

• Live Messenger
• Facebook
• MediaConnect
• LinkedIn
• MySpace (ok, so I don’t use this one regularly, but it’s there nonetheless)

Wouldn’t it be good if you could just enter your status once and have it update everywhere automatically? OK, there are some issues, such as ‘do I want my FB status, which is largely social, to also appear on my professional LinkedIn profile’? But you can get around that by only using it for universal status updates, and going in for the manual update on sites if you don’t want everybody in the universe to know what you’re doing.

There must already be something like this out in the world. Whatsit called and does it work? Anyone…anyone…Bueller….

If not, we can call it USU. Sit USU sit - good dog!

UPDATE: If you do use Twitter and want to publish your Facebook status on the service, I suggest the method outlined by Jeff Sandquist from Microsoft. It’s only one way tho; you can’t use Twitter to update Facebook, from what I understand. 

UPDATE2: And the Twitter app lets you use Twitter to update FB.  I must admit, I’m a teeny bit scared of using it, coz it seems to be an all-or-nothing approach, but I’ll be brave and jump right in shall I? Of course, it’s not a USU but it’s fun to play around with.