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Feeding Facebook Updates to Twitter

MAY 2009 UPDATE – Why I continue to hate Facebook. They’ve switched this all around and I can no longer find the RSS. Sorry, folks!

Are you on Facebook and Twitter? Finding that being active on both takes a bit of work and sometimes ends in writing the same things on both networks? There is a better way, and it’s not using the Twitter app in Facebook to pull your tweets into your status bar.

I recently wrote why I think it’s a very bad idea to send Twitter updates to Facebook. For one thing, Twitter updates are multilingual – with their own funky vernacular and symbols, and lots of links, while Facebook statuses are generally informal and personal. But the nice thing is, Facebook statuses fit right into the Twitter stream. And you’ll do fine sending your Facebook status updates there. I’m doing it now, using TwitterFeed and this helpful guide. As an extra note, uncheck the “Include item link” box at TwitterFeed.
What do you think?

adrielhampton

Adriel Hampton is a writer, strategist, and sometimes mindfulness practitioner.

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6 responses to “Feeding Facebook Updates to Twitter”

  1. Adriel, just FYI there’s a “nice” way to now feed Twitter into FB, a new app called “Selective Twitter Status” created by http://twitter.com/andyy

    From the FB, app description:

    ~~~~~
    Update your Facebook Status from Twitter

    BUT

    Only for the tweets you choose.

    End a tweet with #fb when you want it to update your Facebook status – simple.

    – Avoid confusing your Facebook friends
    – Don’t swamp your profile with too many updates
    – Leave certain updates on Facebook for longer
    ~~~~~

    Seems to work great and gives you the power to choose what’s appropriate to share with the FB network

  2. I’ll second @dslunceford’s motion! I used to use the Twitter app on Facebook to import all my tweets except for @ replies. I got a number of WTF-type comments when there were too many hashtags or @ references in an FB status update, so when I heard about @andyy’s SelectiveTwitter app, I switched!

    Not only do I get to choose which tweets become FB status updates now, Andy’s tool is kind enough to strip the #fb hashtag from the tweet before it posts to FB. So no more confusion!!

    Your idea of using twitterfeed to pull status updates into Twitter is probably a valid solution for lots of people, but I’m not one of them. Since I can tweet via SMS and email, as well as web, I find it much easier to go the other way.

  3. Hi there Adriel, checked out the helpful guide but unfortunately still having trouble finding the RSS link for a facebook status update. Does anyone have an ideas on how to find this on your facebook page?
    The other ideas seem like a good idea and will check them out. Any thoughts on putting short blog entries to multiple twitter/facebook accounts?
    Thanks so much,
    2g1c/OnSluts

  6. http://tuitting.com . I this it should be mentioned. It also gives the possibility to send Pictures and Youtube Videos to Facebook Accounts and Pages as well as synchronizing all your Facebook and Twitter accounts. It s Free. I like it more than any other..

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