There have been a lot of people asking me how I am able to use Twitter and have my latest tweet also appear as my Facebook status. I wish I could remember where I first heard about this, but it does seem to be working.
Here's how.
1. Get the Twitter application installed in your Facebook profile here: Twitter App For Facebook.
2. You'll notice a link that says: Want Twitter to update your Facebook status? Click here!
That's it.
There may be some time lag, but it seems to be working fine for me. My understanding is that those who really pump the messages out in Twitter may have some of them get lost. I seem to recall reading somewhere that Facebook only checks your Twitter every thirty minutes (or so). I'm not twittering that much to have this issue, so I'm quite happy with this new additional functionality.
The only reason I'm not thrilled with it is that I am having Twitku flashbacks. Twitku allows you to post once and then have the message distributed via both Twitter and Jaiku. I felt like I was cheating, so I dropped Jaiku and stuck with Twitter.
This morning I also realized how bad I was at answering messages left to my Facebook Inbox. There are many Marketers grappling with what they should (and shouldn't) use in the Social Media space. I must admit, managing one's Digital Presence can be time consuming.
Thankfully, I love playing with this stuff.
Comments
Posted by Eric Eggertson
Thanks, Mitch. I've been meaning to do that for a while, but never followed up on it. Your note spurred me to consolidate my "lifestream" just a bit more...
Posted by Phil Barrett
Thanks for posting this! I've recently blogged about Twitter and one of my complaints was why i couldn't just have one status update that propagates to other sites.
I've had a twitter feed on my facebook for a while, but never actually bothered to click on the application settings to see what other options were there.
i'm still not completely sold on microblogging as an essential piece of my social graph, but this certainly helps!
Posted by Anonymous
It's easy to turn on this feature... but how in the world do you turn it off? Now I've got double-posting to my Facebook mini-feed... one from the Twitter application, and then immediately afterward one showing my updated Facebook status! VERY annoying. I can't find any settings in the Twitter FB app to turn off either one.
Posted by Anonymous
I just wanted to follow up to let people know that I found out how to fix the double-post bug! The answer is here: http://thejoshmeister.blogspot.com/2007/11/twitter-facebook-app-fixing-double-feed.html
Posted by Jeremy Heslop
Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for. I even mistyped facbook in google and it found your page! Also thanks for anoymous for posting some fixes.
Jeremy
Posted by subcorpus
thanks for this ... pretty simple solution eh ...?
BTW ... love your blog design ...
Posted by John Brown
This is all well and good, but why do I have to supply my Twitter password to enable this update? The feed is openly available to anyone who wants to get it so why the authentication element for Facebook updates?
Sorry no external ’system’ get my passwords.
- J.
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