Savor Chat creates chat rooms for Facebook and Twitter contacts


Most people's Facebook and Twitter contact lists differ drastically from one another, but occasionally, you'll have a reason to get those Facebook and Twitter friends together. Savor Chat is a way to do that, allowing Twitter friends to sign in with OAuth, and Facebook friends to use Facebook Connect. Either way, you're all chatting, and nobody needs to create a new account.

It's nice to see an array of privacy settings when an app requests access to accounts on two major social networks, and Savor Chat delivers. Stealth mode" hides the room on your Facebook feed and keeps it from being indexed by search engines. You can also set a duration to keep the room open, or just open it indefinitely. Rooms can also be turned on or off, or password protected.

My biggest concern about Savor Chat was that chat messages would be posted to Twitter users' accounts to annoy people who aren't in the chat and don't care. You can post your chat messages to Twitter, and even have Savor Chat automatically add a hashtag for your room, but it's not the default option. Savor Chat isn't something I expect to use every day, but when you have a meeting and you don't have time to get everyone on the same network, it could be very handy.

Tags: chat, chat-room, facebook, savor, savor-chat, twitter