These instructions assume that you already have both a Facebook account and a Twitter account. Click on the Login button. You can now actually use Twitter from within Facebook. The screen looks like this:. Personally, I never use this. I want the reverse of this. I want to update my Facebook status from Twitter. You should get a confirmation screen that looks similar to this:. Now confirm that you are willing to let Twitter update your Facebook status by clicking the Allow Status Updates button.
After you click this button, you will go to the Twitter application. Instead, go to your Facebook Home page, by clicking the Home link on the Facebook menu.
Now you can test the connection by going to your favorite Twitter application or the Twitter web page and entering a tweet. Wait a minute or two and go back to your Facebook home page and refreshing it. In fact, TweetDeck does more than that -- it lets you bring most of the Facebook experience into the app. You can view the Facebook stream of updates and photos without ever closing the app.
TweetDeck's hardly the only application that merges social networks into a single, easy-to-use interface. HootSuite supports the same services, plus a few more, and offers a combined social media dashboard that allows you to manage all your feeds simultaneously, as well as mobile apps for iPhone and iPad , Android and Blackberry.
Another TweetDeck competitor, Seesmic, offers the same widespread integration and the ability to post messages to a single account or multiple profiles. While all three programs can be installed as standalone applications on various platforms, they're also accessible via the Web.
Products like TweetDeck and Seesmic primarily exist to make life more convenient. Posting messages to Facebook and Twitter independently really isn't that difficult, but doing both at once is easier.
Just remember that Twitter and Facebook are different social networks -- messages aimed at your family probably don't need to go out over Twitter. Know your audience, find the app that's right for you, and make sure you know how to post a perfect tweet. You're set! Sign up for our Newsletter! Mobile Newsletter banner close. Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots.
Mobile Newsletter chat avatar. I love the new Tweetdeck app — I can check a box to shoot my Tweet to Facebook, and then uncheck it. Pretty slick! Hi Dana — Thanks for visiting and commenting :- Tweetdeck is a good way to do it too. I was trying to keep the article independent of other apps. Now please to write a post about what the heck I am supposed to be doing with my friend feed account. I should find some articles for you because there are some people who love Friendfeed and use it way more than Twitter.
I think face book is designed for as a platform for keeping in touch with friends and twitter can be used both for personal update and business connections, if your twitter is used for business it is not good to send floods of updates to friends, in this sense you are totally right. Hi — I have some information that is the same on both but I post on both manually, so, if necessary, the information is appropriate for both audiences.
To deal with that I made a fan page for my business. I dropped this from my list of apps on Facebook as well. Has my Facebook updating suffered as a result? But I think the people in my newsfeed are thanking me. You could use the Selective App that I mentioned in the article. Or if you use tweetdeck it has facebook integration so certain tweets will update facebook.
This is a major reason why I group Twitter friends on Facebook under a unique friend list, so I can filter them out and view other friend list updates. It differs. The numerous number of social profies have made our lives really difficult. Sometimes, without you knowing your updates on one channel would have gone elsewhere. I do it manually — like to rephrase the title sometimes and I like to be on twitter when I post it to see the reaction, if any, the article is getting. Thanks for the reminder ; I just removed the twitter updated plugin… Let me do it manually henceforth.
I agree! I just do it manually. Makes sense. Thanks for the input. I love Selective Twitter Status. I can see how some people may not agree, since you have to use up 4 of your characters for the fb, but at the same time, you can spare your Facebook friends from seeing 20 followfriday posts as well. I generally use the fb after tweets where I know both my Facebook and Twitter audience will appreciate the message, otherwise, I leave it off. Kristi — I think if people are that worried about 4 characters than they should just post it manually.
Those frequent FB updates were very confusing. I was wondering why you were changing them so often and using FB as Twitter :. I was getting a double dose. Then I figured it out, it must be some application that posts their tweets to FB as well. Hi Valerie — Great! You can amuse in completely different ways in two different places My Facebook is mostly personal friends though I have some online buddies and they dont need to see updates every 5 minutes.
Also, my Facebook is less business focused than Twitter. Hi Carla — I wish I had realized it that fast. I had it installed for quite some time. I turned mine off this morning. It was bugging me, so I hate to think how it is was driving my friends mad.
The thing is I set it up so long ago I forgot what was posting the tweets to Facebook: Twitterfeed, ping. This morning it dawned on me that it was the twitter application in facebook. Well I posted this yesterday :- I forget how I set things up too — it took me forever to figure out how to turn the setting off. Kim, I have both Facebook and Twitter accounts, but I usually use it for chatting with my friends or playing some flash games… I have never thought use them to promote my business Quite a silly guy, am I?
Hi Wilson — I try not to do too much promoting anymore on my personal facebook page. I recently made a fan page for my business and am doing the promoting there instead. I also send live-tweets of significance like the nonprofit conference I attended last month so they can learn something. The hide button is a good solution — but then I am missing the selective tweets, which can be useful. I have some converted to Twitter. I would say 25 of my friends.
I have people who like my FB Status-Twitter convo, but are not converters. Finally, I have some 10 people defriend me. It splits in all sectors, but for the most, I get a solid response. Thanks for this post. I do both facebook and twitter — manually and badly…I just feel badly about how little IT I know how to do and then us…and I feel like it hurts my blog growth.
Although I do think that Facebook is poorly designed which makes it hard to locate the settings that you need sometimes. I integrated Twitter with my facebook account before but changed it after a couple of days. It is better to keep them separate. Elisa Camahort Page elisac once tweeted that putting the same status on Twitter and FB was like sending the same present to two different girlfriends.
I like that and I disabled mine ;- Thanks for the tips about selective posting. Oh Kim, I am in your FB and Twitter and I do still have Twitter updating… but the reality is that I have turned it off and on, and then used Selective Twitter but never remembered the fb. Right now I am so busy that I rarely tweet and then when I do, it is most always a Wausau Whitewater announcement that I want in all places.
I often send the same message to the boater boards too. Right now life is too crazy, I barely have time to eat! Your information is pertinent to both groups 2. No worries :- And thanks for commenting even though you are so busy — I really appreciate it. There was another resume writer looking for a web designer and I was writing a referral for her about your services with links to your LI and blog. So I stopped by to write a comment….
Water turns on tomorrow on the river for the first time. Hi Kim.
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