Twitter Will Update Your Facebook Status - Here's How...

October 6, 2007 2:39 PM

Posted by Mitch Joel

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.

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October 6, 2007 3:20 PM
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...
October 7, 2007 11:01 AM
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!
October 26, 2007 1:58 AM
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.
November 11, 2007 4:22 AM
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
April 14, 2008 11:57 PM
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
June 3, 2008 5:59 PM
Posted by subcorpus

thanks for this ... pretty simple solution eh ...?
BTW ... love your blog design ...
June 17, 2008 9:21 AM
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.
October 1, 2008 11:54 AM
Posted by Angela

I had set up the app with my work twitter account, then when I got a personal twitter account I tried to make the FB app work with that . . . now they BOTH update my FB status.

Anyone know how to fix that?
October 10, 2008 4:22 PM
Posted by Doreen

Thanks. This is exactly what I wanted to know how to do!
October 22, 2008 3:42 PM
Posted by dave downing

I have had the exact same problem as Angela. I can't get Facebook to drop my work Twitter and only update from my Personal Twitter. Has anyone found a solution????!!
November 12, 2008 10:31 AM
Posted by robert

Thanks for the tip.

Unsure why Facebook is so confusing to get it doing what I want... I can barely make heads or tails of the various "streams", news, profile, wall, photos ... really IMO it should all be one stream.

Very nice site BTW.
December 22, 2008 11:21 AM
Posted by SOS Media Web Design

Thanks for the unbiased info. I'm trying to manage all this as well. Just about to add Twitter as a full-time communication tool and not a once-a-week hobby. We'll see. I'd rather add more sunsets and morning jogs, but instead I add another social networking tool. Hm.
December 23, 2008 8:20 PM
Posted by Mike Gifford

Well, I'm not even sure I want to twitter, but I do occasionally update my status line on Facebook, so might as well hit more birds with one stone if I can.
December 27, 2008 3:45 AM
Posted by Simone

This is all great but... does anybody know how to turn the automatic updates OFF???

I now use ping.fm and it's so much more convenient to have the simultaneous update only if/when I want it...

Txs
Simone
January 23, 2009 11:09 AM
Posted by meeee

Isn't this broken now?
February 5, 2009 1:29 PM
Posted by Kevin

How do you get facebook to update public feeds without giving a 3rd party your password?
February 20, 2009 1:19 PM
Posted by robert barnes

Well, to solve all the aforementioned problems, check out this dude's tutorial. I've had those same issues before and his solution seems to work:

http://cogito.faii.net/linking-facebook-to-twitter-tutorial/

With that you get to solve boththe account mixup and selective updating problems.

According to him, it doesn't work if your twitter feed is on private/safe mode. Apparently that's true...

Cheers and hope it helps!
March 3, 2009 8:07 AM
Posted by MikeonTV

My problem is that I would not like ALL of my tweets to update my Facebook status. I would rather prefer to hit a button in my Twitter client (ie Tweetdeck or DestroyTwitter) and have selected tweets update my FB aswell
March 7, 2009 10:06 PM
Posted by linda h

I just had someone hack into my facebook update status with profanity, not only once but twice today.
I wonder if someone can more easily hack a twitter account for the status update because I believe it would be rather hard to hack into my facebook account.
Curious.....
April 4, 2009 10:34 PM
Posted by Byron Rogers

I have a personal page/profile, which I update my status on periodically.

Under the same account, I have a Business Page (Pedigree Consultants LLC). Now the issue I have is that my twitter account is for my business. I want the twitter updates to update the status on the business page, but NOT my personal profile page. At the moment, whatever twitter app I have used, updates my personal page/profile which is not what I want.

Any ideas?
April 5, 2009 9:20 PM
Posted by paul

How do I turn this off or uninstall the app?
April 21, 2009 12:57 PM
Posted by splurt

I just want my facebook status to update my twitter, and not vice versa
June 16, 2009 4:03 PM
Posted by DW5

To turn it off:

1. Login to Facebook
2. Go to http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php?
3. Click Profile link beside the Twitter App
4. At the bottom of the left hand column click remove App.

Like Splurt I decided I'd rather have Facebook update Twitter b/c my tweets are more numerous and not quite relevant to Facebook status updates.
June 23, 2009 1:19 AM
Posted by J Dawg

Same problem as Byron.

How do we update a Facebook Page and not our personal profile?