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Facebook Now Supports Jabber/XMPP

Posted by timothy on from the cross-pollination-nation dept.

supersloshy writes "Facebook Chat has so far only been meant to be used in a web browser, and instant messaging applications have had a hard time implementing its undocumented protocol. Today, Facebook is making this job much easier by enabling support for XMPP to access its chat service. AOL's AIM and the Empathy Instant Messenger are also including pre-set Facebook options, due to already supporting XMPP." Here are instructions for setting up XMPP Facebook chat with popular instant messaging clients, including Pidgin and Adium.

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  1. Grammar Nazi says: It's "its", not "it's"! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    have had a hard time implementing it's undocumented protocol.

    Obviously not as hard of a time as certain people have using a certain possessive pronoun!
    It's "its", not "it's", you itsy bitsy tiny grammar weenie, you!

    Timothy might as well change his nickname to icanhazgrammur.

  2. Re:changes by Dan541 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because the Onion is a credible news source.

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