Twitter and Facebook Integration: Stop Making Every Tweet Your Facebook Status
Many people who use Twitter and Facebook use the Twitter Facebook Application to update their facebook status. The facebook status is populated by every tweet except @ messages and direct messages. Even RT (retweets) show up as the facebook status.
I used to use this application. But I stopped. And if you do this, I think you should stop too. I’m going to tell you why. If updating your facebook status manually is too much bother, then I’ll offer an alternative facebook application.
When you use the twitter application to update your facebook status, almost every tweet except an @ reply, updates your facebook status. I used to use this but realized that it wasn’t working effectively and started updating my status manually.
- If I send a lot of tweets in a short time period then my facebook status updates quickly. Am I really that busy? Is every tweet I send interesting on facebook. Probably not. Alternatively, I could make sure that my tweets are appropriate as a facebook status but then I am censoring myself on one platform for the sake of another and am no longer using twitter to an effective communication tool.
- I don’t know about you but a lot of my friends on facebook don’t use twitter. My frequent status updates and retweets made no sense to them at all. It was like I was discussing a topic in one location and then broadcasting it to others who weren’t participating in the conversation.
- And does it really take me that long to update my facebook status manually? No. And I don’t even have to login to do it – I can set us SMS for my account and update my status via my cellphone.
Occasionally my twitter and facebook updates will be in sync. I might think something is especially funny and want to share it in both locations or I might really excited about a football (soccer) match. But generally I have different messages for each platform.
If you feel that you must integrate twitter and facebook, then I recommend an alternative application. It’s called Selective Twitter Status. Only tweets that you end with #fb will update your facebook status. The rest of your tweets will just stay with Twitter.
Do you use Twitter and Facebook? Do you update your Facebook status via Twitter? Have any of your facebook friends who don’t use twitter ever complained about this? Do you think selective status is a better solution? I’m still going to update manually but I do think it’s a better solution.
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June 1, 2009 at 2:11 am
I do have a facebook but i am not using it almost at all. I have a few friends there but nothing much. I am a twitter citizen and as it seems i’ll be a surfer too ;) (i am talking about Google wave… God am i waiting for this or what?). I guess you are right though about the updating. When you are talking on twitter, you are talking on twitter. If it’s too much trouble updating your facebook then just drop it (as i partly did ;) )
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June 1, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Hi Stratos – I’ve had browser tabs open to information on Google wave
all weekend but haven’t read them yet ;-)
I like Facebook but for a completely different reason than I like Twitter.
There’s nothing wrong with auto-updating the status, it’s just that frequently they don’t make any sense.
June 1, 2009 at 6:24 am
I am guilty of this! And I can’t figure out how to remove the application! Help!
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June 1, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Hi Betsy – You just inspired me ;-) I’m going to have a mini facebook
application tutorial posted on Wednesday.
June 1, 2009 at 8:02 am
I occasionally check in on facebook and never use twitter. I’ve signed up for twitter twice and, in each case, not long afterward, I deleted the account.
The main reason I joined facebook was as a connection to family that we seldom see or hear from.
While I can see how facebook might have some value for me, several of our younger relatives are sending their twitter messages to facebook and, in my view, it nearly ruins any benefit that facebook might have. As a result, I look at facebook rarely.
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June 1, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Hi Mike – Maybe you could tell them about the Selective Twitter application or point them to this article. I think a lot of people set up the
integration and then kind of leave it running or forget how to disable it.
Like I said to Stratos, I like both twitter and facebook but for different reason.
Do you have any friends on Facebook playing Mafia Wars? That is even more annoying than Twitter.
December 9, 2009 at 11:26 am
Mike this is a good point. It might be easier for the person Tweeting but it annoying to friends.
December 9, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Hi Margo – I also think that automating all of the services takes the social right out of social media.
June 1, 2009 at 8:38 am
I agree wholeheartedly. I love the new Tweetdeck app – I can check a box to shoot my Tweet to Facebook, and then uncheck it. That way I can choose which tweets I’d like to use to also update Facebook. Pretty slick!
Thanks for pointing out something that bugs many!
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June 1, 2009 at 2:16 pm
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 what can we do about Mafia Wars ;-)
June 1, 2009 at 8:40 am
I used to use it, but like you realized that most of my tweets weren’t very interesting to my FB friends. When I do have something I want to share with both, I’ve been using ping.fm. Why? No reason really, it’s just the first service I saw that could do that.
Now please to write a post about what the heck I am supposed to be doing with my friend feed account.
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June 1, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Hi Tracy,
Every so often I try to use Friendfeed but it just doesn’t grab me. It took me a long time to warm up to Facebook so maybe I will eventually like it
better but I don’t know. I should find some articles for you because there are some people who love Friendfeed and use it way more than Twitter.
June 1, 2009 at 8:42 am
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.
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June 1, 2009 at 2:20 pm
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. I was using Facebook for business stuff but that didn’t work
very well with the other goofy things that I post there. To deal with that I made a fan page for my business.
June 1, 2009 at 10:16 am
I dropped this from my list of apps on Facebook as well. The two audiences just aren’t the same and thus you shouldn’t port one into the other. Has my Facebook updating suffered as a result? Absolutely. But I think the people in my newsfeed are thanking me.
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June 1, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Hi Stuart – There is some cross-over between my facebook and twitter friends but a lot of my friends and family on facebook have never used twitter and my status updates were too frequent and didn’t make sense.
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.
June 1, 2009 at 11:18 am
Agreed. I never integrated the two–and don’t intend to start now. 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.
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June 1, 2009 at 11:21 am
You’re right…it’s just plain silly…disabling now…but what about twitter-friendfeed, is that different?
June 1, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Much different, David; to the point I’ve recently unfollowed folks from Twitter and followed their tweets on FriendFeed.
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June 1, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Hi David – I guess it’s different to send them through on Friendfeed. I checked and don’t have twitter in friendfeed stream.
Ari – What is the criteria? People who use friendfeed and twitter?
June 1, 2009 at 5:48 pm
It differs. If I don’t get value out of a person’s twitter stream–but find the person’s blog handy, I’ll unfollow on twitter and add their friendfeed stream to a group.
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June 1, 2009 at 12:52 pm
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. Extensive use of plugins/widgets causes this… Yet another cause is the way SocNets extract your RSS feed (you would have probably mentioned your blog URL alone in the profile and that’s enough for them)
I am very careful with my twitter updater plugin itself.
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June 1, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Hi Ajith – You’re so right. Last summer I was trying out a bunch of online apps and I probably have tweets clogging things up in places that I don’t even remember ;-)
I don’t use a plugin to send my articles to twitter either. 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.
June 3, 2009 at 5:05 am
Thanks for the reminder ;) I just removed the twitter updated plugin… Let me do it manually henceforth
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June 1, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I agree! Twitter and Facebook are so different, it doesn’t makes sense to turn Twitter updates into FB statuses. I just do it manually.
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June 1, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Hi Vered – Me too – it doesn’t take very long. :-)
June 1, 2009 at 1:57 pm
I was just about to do exactly what you’re talking about. Makes sense. Thanks for the input.
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June 1, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Hi Tess,
You were just about to integrate the two or stop the integration?
June 1, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I love Selective Twitter Status. I can see how some people may not agree, since you have to use up 4 of your 140 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. Definitely a better alternative to every tweet going to Facebook (and confusing & annoying your non-Twitter Facebook friends).
~ Kristi
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June 1, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Kristi – I think if people are that worried about 4 characters than they should just post it manually. ;-)
June 1, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Those frequent FB updates were very confusing. I was wondering why you were changing them so often and using FB as Twitter :)
June 1, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Hi Manshu – LOL – I didn’t know anyone actually noticed. I removed it awhile back – I can’t remember exactly when though.
June 1, 2009 at 5:50 pm
for a while i didn’t understand why people were posting the same message on twitter and facebook. i was like okay already…to those i follow on FB and 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. Don’t have to worry about me using it. I can’t even find it and won’t look for it.
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June 1, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Hi Valerie – Great! You can amuse in completely different ways in two different places :-)
June 2, 2009 at 2:03 am
I think I used for 1/2 day before I realized it was overkill. 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. I dont want to feel like I’m constantly spamming my friends!
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June 2, 2009 at 10:58 am
Hi Carla – I wish I had realized it that fast. I had it installed for quite some time. :-)
June 2, 2009 at 11:08 am
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.fm? This morning it dawned on me that it was the twitter application in facebook.
if only you had written this post earlier it would have saved me a lot of head scratching.
Cheers.
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June 2, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Hi Nigel,
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.
June 2, 2009 at 12:34 pm
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?)
June 2, 2009 at 4:00 pm
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. That’s working pretty well but I am trying to get more fans who aren’t my friends ;-)
June 2, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I’ll be the first one to admit that I love using the Twitter Application on Facebook. I also admit that I can be annoying from time-to-time (if you’re a friend of me on Facebook, I’ll warn you of the hide button).
However, what it does is I can feed info to people who are hesitant about Twitter and I send articles to both Twitter and Facebook because that’s what interests me and start a conversation. I also send live-tweets of significance like the nonprofit conference I attended last month so they can learn something.
It’s a double-edge for sure, but I love the integration and start up a conversation and found it useful.
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June 2, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Hi Tracy – I was wondering if anyone was going to disagree with my point of view ;-)
The hide button is a good solution – but then I am missing the selective tweets, which can be useful.
Has your use of the twitter app gotten any of your facebook friends to start using twitter?
June 2, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Interesting you said that. I have to break this up in 4 categories:
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. There’s a majority for that
I have people scream in agony, but yet still are my friends and relatives.
Finally, I have some 10 people defriend me.
It splits in all sectors, but for the most, I get a solid response. I won’t say a positive response, but I think that’s the purpose is getting a response and if you feel comfortable of doing it, which I am.
I’m not oppose people hating the sync format because I tend to tweet a lot on live events and random stuff, but what I want is a conversation and that’s what I’m getting.
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June 3, 2009 at 10:41 am
It sounds like it’s working out ok for you. And 10 people isn’t too bad – that seems a little extreme – I wouldn’t defriend someone over it. I didn’t lose any friends not did anyone complain – I just realized one day that I was annoying myself.
June 2, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Thanks for this post. I don’t use twitter that much, even though I’ve got a following of people, all my real interactions are on Facebook.
But this Facebook app looks cool :)
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June 3, 2009 at 10:40 am
Hi Haroun – Well, be careful with it – most people seem to find it annoying. :-)
June 2, 2009 at 10:09 pm
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.
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June 3, 2009 at 10:47 am
Hi Patricia – I don’t think you need to know IT to use Facebook and Twitter – just say what you want to say and be on your way. Although I do think that Facebook is poorly designed which makes it hard to locate the settings that you need sometimes.
June 3, 2009 at 10:19 am
I integrated Twitter with my facebook account before but changed it after a couple of days. It is better to keep them separate.
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June 3, 2009 at 10:48 am
Hi Madhur – Every tweet on facebook just doesn’t makes sense – especially when we are watching games. “And Madrid scores” “There goes Raul” LOL
June 3, 2009 at 11:37 am
Hey there Kim,
There is absolutely nothing I can add to this except “Hallelujah” and thank you for helping me when my Friendfeed options double posted on FB. :)
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June 3, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Hi Danny – Thanks! And you’re welcome.
Since writing this article I want to tell people who are in my facebook
stream and who are still doing this, to please stop ;-) I’m like – haven’t you seen my article – lol.
June 3, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Kim,
You are so encouraging – there is hope for me yet!
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June 4, 2009 at 10:41 am
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.
June 4, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Hi Jenna – That’s a great analogy – thanks for sharing it :-)
June 4, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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. I don’t mean to offend people especially your many wise followers but I think if I turn it off again, it will be later in the fall. Right now life is too crazy, I barely have time to eat!
June 4, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Hi Julie – I know a couple of people who use the application in a useful
way and you’re one of them :-) 1. Your information is pertinent to both
groups 2. Your tweets aren’t that frequent.
No worries :-) And thanks for commenting even though you are so busy – I really appreciate it.
June 5, 2009 at 7:29 am
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. It will probably rain, but I am still happy to see all the paddlers I haven’t seen since last September!
June 5, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Thanks Julie! And good luck with the paddlers :-)
June 8, 2009 at 7:25 am
Hi Kim. I have also disabled the app. The annoying duplicates on facebook were the tweets involving RT and followfriday, which made no sense there. Now I use ping.fm to post cross-networks selectively, so any other interaction on twitter stays where it should be.
The reason for cross-posting is that all these social networks are overwhelming, and manually update each one would take up too much time, especially if you want to share the same stuff. Like a blog post, a cool video, or a quote.
I still have to figure out how to streamline facebook. As of now, each time I publish a post, I have networkedblogs, ping.fm, and the app notes, all updating at the same time, resulting in multiple updates for the same material… not to mention the profile and the fan page duplicating stuff…
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June 8, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Hi Palma – You raise a really good point about updating multiple
networks. How do we keep up with all of them and not have updates
that don’t make sense?
I think for the immediate issue you can go into the settings for each one of those apps and set them to not publish updates to the stream.
Edit Applications > Settings for the app > Additional Permissions > Uncheck the Box.
June 8, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Hi Kim, thanks for the suggestion! I will only use ping.fm to cross-post, and disable all the other apps from updating to the stream. :-)
June 8, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Hi Palma – Cool :-) You know I have a couple of things feeding into
FB like delicious bookmarks that I can’t even find the application for much less turn it off. Facebook really is confusing.
June 11, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Kim & Ari,
I’m thinking of separating the two, but the tool offered here by Kim won’t work for me — I aspire to writing close to Twooshes (exactly the max number of characters or slightly less).
Adding an extra character isn’t great.
Also, I’m really not a fan of adding things to Tweets that look like coding anymore than I already am.
Also, on Twitter, both of you have a “nuclear follow cost” at http://www.FollowCost.com — it makes sense that you separate things.
Every once in a while I’m about ready to update FaceBook manually Twice a day and then cousins or friends of mine on FaceBook who isn’t on Twitter and who is pretty much a lurker will email me and say how much they enjoy a certain link or Tweet/update.
One guy from an organization I was in 20 years ago found a few specific Tweets and linked to it in the alumni group.
Things like that make me want to stay a while longer with everything in both places.
My point is — whether this is a great idea depends both upon how you use Twitter (I have a Golden Follow Cost, for whatever that’s worth) and don’t use Twitter like an IM client that would confuse other people.
Both Ari & Kim do and so the benefit of the pass through to FaceBook of chatty messages and the sheer volume of messages differs from many peoples.
June 11, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Hi Gib,
LOL @ nuclear follow cost – I had no idea :-)
You raise a good point about how prolific you are on twitter being a criteria for not integrating the two. There are a couple of people I follow
on twitter and facebook who tweet A LOT and feed it into facebook – it’s really annoying. I don’t defriend them or say anything but I do just skim
over everything they say on facebook.
You also have a number of examples that show how integrating the two has been beneficial for you. I follow you on twitter and don’t notice that many tweets – you may be someone who is using the
integration in an appropriate way.
Thanks so much for such a great comment :-)
June 12, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I actually have a question. I automatically set my tweets to go to facebook when I set up my twitter account last year. Now I don’t know how to stop it? Ive asked Twitter twice but Im sure their responses are automated and no one has been able to help me. If someone could help me that would be great. Thanks. Stacie
June 12, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Hi Stacie – This article about editing and deleting facebook applications should help you out.
http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/how-to-edit-and-delete-facebook-applications/
July 21, 2009 at 5:25 pm
I completely agree with this. It sounds like such a great idea to have twitter automatically update your facebook status, since you then don’t have to log on to facebook and change your status, you’re saving time. When I first heard about it, I signed up immediately for the application. However, a few days later, I was talking with a friend as she logged on to Facebook, and she said, “wow, you’ve been busy.” I looked over to her screen to see 25 single posts by me under her her newsfeed – all my tweets that had come over from twitter. I was mortified! I removed the application right away! I could see how people would be immediately turned off! Hey, I was, and they were my tweets! ;) Thanks for the post!
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July 21, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Hi Melissa,
I did the same thing – on days that I was using twitter a lot it was ridiculous. I realized what was going on when someone left a comment on my wall complaining about twitter people :-)
July 27, 2009 at 5:04 pm
I might have to be the lone dissenter here. I was always a frequent Facebook poster, and I use Twitter in exactly the same way but just to reach a larger audience. I just limit my updates to no more than once every couple of hours (which is about my max throughput anyway unless I am especially bored).
It’s a rarity when I have something to say on Twitter that I don’t want on Facebook.
July 27, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Hi Zelbinian,
Do you retweet others? Those tend to make the least amount of sense when they find their way to facebook. It does sound like you have a usage pattern which would make it less annoying.
August 26, 2009 at 4:46 pm
The reason I’d post the same thing to Twitter and to Facebook is because I’m trying to reach people with my comments WHEREVER THEY ARE.
I don’t know why some folks use Twitter and some use Facebook. And I can’t keep up with what they’re using this month. So I would post to both.
Who in the world has time to consider “different audiences” on various SocNets? sheesh. I barely have time to check in on one of them, and not every day either.
I would post the exact same things to both, because different people decide for random reasons decide to “friend” or “follow” each other on different services. Then we’re sort of stuck with those connections for a while, and don’t want to abandon them all at once and lose all those friends.
I have about 1,000 friends on MySpace and I’d like to be able to post the exact same things there too. Because only some of those folks, a little at a time, migrate to Facebook, or to Twitter.
September 2, 2009 at 8:40 am
I think that’s great if it works for you. I do think, however, that posting automatically takes some of the social out of social media. But time is always an issue…
January 18, 2010 at 8:30 am
Kim, I know I’m late to this conversation but having just blogged about it, I’m wondering: has your thinking about the issue changed in the 6 months since you wrote about it?
I think my own habits will now align more closely to yours, with the exception of how you use your personal Facebook account.
.-= Griff Wigley´s last blog ..On using Twitter and Facebook with a blog: It’s Complicated =-.
January 18, 2010 at 8:37 am
Hi Griff – I enjoyed your article and am planning on commenting. One minor thing – my last name is Woodbridge not Woodridge :-)
My facebook profile page is kind of goofy and expresses a lot of personal opinion about various world events and my sense of humor. It is not aligned with any sort of business plan. Would I handle that differently? Probably not. I’m a individual and don’t view myself as a brand so if anything offends someone and keeps then from wanting to hire me then we probably wouldn’t work well together in the first place.
My twitter stream is a mash of personal and business as well.
I am still against auto-posting on Twitter and Facebook from my blog or from one to the other. If everything is automated there is no social. I also don’t think it takes very long to manually post something and add a comment. And when items are auto-posted I might not realize that someone is leaving comments and engaging.
Thanks for your article – I enjoyed the thought process behind your decisions.
January 18, 2010 at 8:52 am
AAARRGGGHHH, sorry about misspelling your last name, Kim. You’d think with a name like mine that’s frequently misspelled, I’d be more careful!
Now fixed, including the tags.
I’ve got no argument with your rationale for how you mix the personal with the business on your Twitter stream and Facebook profile page. I would probably have done the same but it’s easier to separate the two because of the busy community blog that I’m involved with… and that’s where all my opinionating and attempts at humor happen.
.-= Griff Wigley´s last blog ..On using Twitter and Facebook with a blog: It’s Complicated =-.
January 18, 2010 at 9:03 am
Hi Griff – My guess is that people add an r to your last name ;-)
I didn’t mean to imply that you were criticizing that way I use Facebook and Twitter. I’ve just found that most are very hesitant to combine the personal and the professional and was explaining my point of view.
I think it’s great how much thought and research you are putting into this – I think you will be really prepared.
January 18, 2010 at 9:14 am
Yeah, that lack of the letter ‘r’ is a big deal. No “Go Cubs!” for this Twins fan. ;-)
You’re welcome on the thought and research. Now we’ll see how the implementation phase goes.
.-= Griff Wigley´s last blog ..On using Twitter and Facebook with a blog: It’s Complicated =-.
March 13, 2010 at 11:49 am
selective status is a must. thank you for the post.!!!!!
March 14, 2010 at 7:55 am
Hi Timothy – I’m glad you agree – it seems that more people are using it. I’m not seeing quite as many FB updates that are all the same as the twitter ones – some, but not as many.
March 14, 2010 at 9:26 am
This post stuck with me for a long time… I finally listened awhile back and dropped the connection. Then I realized in Tweetdeck, I can choose if I want to make a comment and hit both my Twitter and Facebook communities…
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March 15, 2010 at 8:49 am
Hi Julie – Tweetdeck does make it a lot easier :-)
June 13, 2010 at 11:04 am
Do you know how to get them to update a fan page instead my profile?
June 14, 2010 at 6:50 am
Hi Mark – You would need to uninstall the application from your profile or set it to not post to your wall. You then need to install it on the fan page and have it set to post.
June 22, 2010 at 10:31 pm
hi.
so i have the twitter app for FB and had SelectiveTwitter and used them to update my FB status…it did but it didnt show as my status on my profile page even after i refreshed and opend my profile in a new tab.
WHY?
June 23, 2010 at 6:40 am
Hi Steve – I don’t know. My guess is there is an api or communication problem between twitter and facebook. Twitter has been having quite a few problems since the World Cup started and I’ve noticed the API being out frequently.
I would check on the info or discussion tab for the application and see if others are reporting the same problem.
August 17, 2010 at 12:55 am
I’ve done everything to NOT have my twitter updates post to to Facebook page but for some reason it is still happening! The Twitter application has been blocked, it is not on the list of active applications for the Facebook account/page so I’m not sure why this is happening. Similarly on the Twitter end, the connection has been terminated. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
August 19, 2010 at 9:22 am
Hi Kim – Could more than one twitter application be set up? If not, I would try re-adding the one that you removed and then disabling it again. Otherwise I have no idea why it won’t let you turn it off.
August 19, 2010 at 3:12 pm
I’ve got selective tweets set up, but that only posts tweets to Facebook if you add the “#fb” hashtag to your tweet. Which I have not been doing. It is very frustrating since I don’t want to share everything we tweet with our FB “likers”.
August 20, 2010 at 10:06 am
Hi Kim – I wonder why it won’t stop even after removing the app. Have you gone to the page for the app to check the discussions? Maybe others have had a similar problem and have come up with a fix for it …
September 1, 2010 at 8:47 pm
I’m a big FB user, but have never really taken a shine to twitter. I’ve recently tried to find a groove with Twitter and was on the fence about this issue. Thanks for the perspective. I think I’ll keep them separate for now.
September 2, 2010 at 8:42 am
Hi Larry – It can take some time to find the usefulness of twitter. I started and stopped using it a couple of times before it clicked for me. Personally, I don’t like it when social media is automated and the posts are the same on all networks, such as facebook and twitter.
October 13, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Hi
I was just at a social media conference in Victoria and this message was giving loud and clear. My facebook messages on my business page automatically go to twitter. I am a facebook addict who rarely uses twitter. I know all social media folks love twitter but there you go. The think is I cannot figure out how to disconnect facebook from Twitter now. Any recommendations???
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October 14, 2010 at 9:18 am
Hi Jill – Other people have told me about having the same problem.
You can try going to Account > Application Settings. Locate Twitter – I’m not sure which could it would be in – maybe Authorized or Granted
Additional Permissions. The under Edit Settings go to the Additional
Permissions tab and uncheck Publish to my Wall.
You could also try completely removing the application.
December 8, 2010 at 11:14 am
I have registration both in Facebook and Twitter. I find Twitter very confusing to me. This is Twitter where you tweet, re-tweet, follow and so many things to remember and one will surely forget. Twitter Help Center is more confusing to me. Why the word ‘URL’ is used in place of ‘web address’? In my computer, sometimes Twitter Homepage does not proceed once I click anything. However, I would like to get out of my confusion and intend to make better use of it. Please help me.
December 10, 2010 at 7:22 am
Hi Abul – Twitter can be confusing when you first start using it – I think the best thing to do is to continue using it and becoming more familiar with it.
I don’t know why you would be having trouble with the Twitter site – maybe see what happens when you use a different web browser…
January 25, 2011 at 5:44 pm
I use TweetDeck and take care of my Twitter, FB and LinkedIn all at once AND have a Twitter widget on my website. I don’t chat on Twitter, its all news and event information related to sustainable living & design. I like it because I can load it up the night before or early in the morning with several items that are distributed at about half hour per item. For me this works great. You can check it out on my RegenerativeHomes website where I have listed my FB, LinkedIn and Twitter links.
My problem isn’t with the theory its with Facebook. For some reason it stops reading my Twitter feeds around noon. So any posts I do in the afternoon I have to do again and I don’t really have the time. Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem and found a solution. My Facebook and Twitter remain connected so it has to do something with times after 12:00 or the amount of transferred tweets allowed per day.
January 26, 2011 at 6:53 am
Hi Stephen,
It sounds like your system is working well for you. I just believe that auto-posting takes the social out of social media. When I post the same content on multiple platforms I do so manually and try to tailor the message to the specific platform.
That 2nd issue is odd – if it’s after noon does it post the content the next day or not at all. What application are you using? Have you tried Networked Blogs?
March 19, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Thanks for this info. Of all the google responses, yours has been the most helpful to my question. :) so THANKS!!;)
May 1, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Mines the other way round… Everytime I update my fb page, it sends a tweet on my twitter. But because I have my band page on fb… When other band members update the page, it tweets them too. How do I stop this??
May 2, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Hi Lee – I believe that you change that through Twitter rather than through Facebook. In Twitter go to Settings > Applications and see if you have something installed for Facebook.
June 30, 2011 at 7:26 am
As a web design agency we are trying to diversify the way it is possible to interact with social networking sites such as Twitter.
The first example that we came up with was grabbing a load of tweets on a certain subject.
As we were exibiting at a business exibition called Let’s Do Business, we decided to make a hub page to do with the exibition. This page included a Twitter feed that grabbed tweets mentioning @letsdobusiness1, @Switchplane (our company), #ldbe and #cloudpun.
The result of which can be seen here http://www.switchplane.com/ldb/
We are also working on some code to check if people have retweeted statuses, are following us, etc.. automatically in order for them to collect rewards.
I was wondering if anyone else has gone further with Twitter than just displaying Twitter statuses on an external website or if you have any cool ideas like the ones I have suggested above.
August 3, 2011 at 1:37 am
i search this tools to, now i get it…
but do you have apps for redirect facebook wall, status, notification or other to twitter tweet??
thanks
September 22, 2011 at 3:28 am
I hv both facebook and twitter accounts. I use facebook to keep in touch with friends and family, and twitter to keep up with latest job prospects.
Anand
November 15, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Thanks for the great advice. Is there a way to limit the posts that go to twitter, for example most of my facebook posts I am happy to tweet, but if I am welcoming someone to my page, I don’t necessarily want to tweet that; or is there no way of limiting it?
November 21, 2011 at 12:03 pm
As far as I know there isn’t a way to limit the posts that go from Facebook to Twitter – it is, however, possible the other way around.
January 27, 2012 at 6:44 am
the selective tweets is not that good because its not integrating with twitter username with it’s facebook post. so there is no use for people to grab facebook users to twitters. but official twitter app does it but its publishing every tweets to facebook. is there any solution for this?
February 6, 2012 at 8:00 am
Hi Syed – I don’t know if there is a better solution – I haven’t used this in quite some time and prefer posting things manually.