Facebook and Twitter on XBox Live Release Date Leaked

Posted on October 13, 2009 by John Carle

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Since its announcement at E3 earlier this year, the social networking elite of XBox Live have anxiously been awaiting the release of Twitter and Facebook for their 360 consoles. As Felicia Day of “The Guild” and “Legend of Neil” fame announced, Twitter, Facebook and LastFM would all be integrated into the XBox 360 Dashboard. There, players would be able to update statuses, check out friends’ profiles and pictures and listen to music all while on their 360 if they have a Gold XBox Live account.

The wait has been long for some as there has, so far, not been a date announced for this service to begin. Plus, it was left out of the recent August Dashboard Update. But apparently we may have an actual date now, thanks to a leak on the UK XBox official website which listed November 17th as the date the service would go live. This was quickly taken down and replaced with the more open ended Autumn 2009 instead.

Of course, this lead to speculation on if Microsoft was waiting to announce the date at a later time to integrate it in to a larger marketing push, if the service was not fully ready to go live at the November date or if the date the service would go live would be the same in both the US, UK and the rest of the world.

So far, there’s no answer to these questions, but we’ll keep you posted on this as well as all other major video game news. And, hit us up on Twitter if you want to find out our XBox Gamertags.

About John Carle

The Definition of “Geek Chic.” Comic books, sci-fi movies, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Lord of the Rings and more all rolled up in a Diesel wearing, club going socialite package. Having worked in both advertising and television, John is a lifetime writer always being a part of the creative process. John knows the television world between his experience on being involved with the production process of over two hundred episodes of prime time tv and being a self admitted media whore. Yes he has a weakness for trash tv, Michael Bay-esque action movies and the raunchy teen comedy as well. Never try to debate the Original Star Wars Trilogy versus Star Trek with him because the Holy Trilogy always comes out on top. Having partied with movie stars to Playboy centerfolds, John is somehow always able to find someone’s inner geek. The simplest rules that John lives by is to have fun and doing what makes him happy. There’s no shame in being a geek. Play Halo, read Spider-Man and proudly display the whole series of Neon Genesis: Evangelion on your DVD rack. And most importantly, make sure to read his weekly comic book pull list reviews at The Flickcast.
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  3. Anonymous says:
    October 28, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    heck yeah!

  4. John Carle says:
    October 28, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    To me, this just further adds to the value of the XBox Live Gold account. Instead of increasing the price of it, they continually add new functionality in addition to just online multiplayer gaming. Having some demos a week early, Twitter, Facebook, Last FM and party Netflix watching, it feels worth that $50 compares to the loss of functionality that the Playstation Network has.

  5. Charlotte. says:
    October 28, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    ;O ONLY IF GOLD ACCOUNT?!?!?! Typical xbox ¬_¬ Theres another point to why xbox gold year subscription should be on the christmas list x]

  6. jaime says:
    October 13, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    Better get an Xbox! A.s.a.p.

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