OpenSocial for facebook and twitter

Question

I am assigned to make a research on using of Open social but stuck on the decision to continue because of facebook and twitter. Does anybody know if the two gigantic social networking sites (facebook and twitter) implemented open social? Do they do implement it? If no, can someone tell me why otherwise if yes, can someone teach me how and give some samples? Thanks guys.

P.S. This link: http://docs.opensocial.org/display/OSD/List+of+OpenSocial+Containers , there's no twitter and facebook on the containers list. Does this mean fb and twitter does not support open social?

Answer 1

No. OpenSocial is a competitor of the Facebook platform. However, there once existed a project (OpenSocket) to integrate OpenSocial in the Facebook platform. Though I don't know the status of it any longer. Their web site is highly outdated and is warned to contain malware.

Answer 2

Nope, they do not implement OpenSocial for obvious reasons. Both recognize the power they can leverage with their social graph. If you want to use their data, you should look into their APIs