Facebook and twitter a one way street
July 16, 2010 1:27 PM
Why can't I tweet from my facebook statuses? Is there a way to do that?
I'm new to twitter and have no desire to use its interface. However, I've been posting facebook statuses for a while and would like to interact on twitter with those statuses. I see that there's a way to do this if I had a business page, but what about from my personal profile? I find it strange that facebook is limiting this ability.
I'm new to twitter and have no desire to use its interface. However, I've been posting facebook statuses for a while and would like to interact on twitter with those statuses. I see that there's a way to do this if I had a business page, but what about from my personal profile? I find it strange that facebook is limiting this ability.
I saw that, but it's programmed poorly and it's buggy. At least in the day or so I was using it.
posted by Michael Pemulis at 1:35 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by Michael Pemulis at 1:35 PM on July 16, 2010
Why can't I tweet from my facebook statuses?
Wait a minute ... if you post a status update in Facebook that's more than 140 characters, which is allowed by Facebook but not Twitter, how is Twitter supposed to handle this? Do you really want to risk the unintended consequences that might ensue if you status is automatically cut off after 140 characters? (I don't know if that's how the Facebook app linked in the previous comment handles it.)
posted by Jaltcoh at 1:35 PM on July 16, 2010
Wait a minute ... if you post a status update in Facebook that's more than 140 characters, which is allowed by Facebook but not Twitter, how is Twitter supposed to handle this? Do you really want to risk the unintended consequences that might ensue if you status is automatically cut off after 140 characters? (I don't know if that's how the Facebook app linked in the previous comment handles it.)
posted by Jaltcoh at 1:35 PM on July 16, 2010
you can set up friendfeed to post from facebook and then broadcast to twitter.
posted by k8t at 1:39 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by k8t at 1:39 PM on July 16, 2010
Michael Pemulis: I find it strange that facebook is limiting this ability.
For starters, Twitter is a competitor to Facebook. FB has no incentive to drive Twitter traffic, quite the opposite.
posted by mkultra at 1:39 PM on July 16, 2010
For starters, Twitter is a competitor to Facebook. FB has no incentive to drive Twitter traffic, quite the opposite.
posted by mkultra at 1:39 PM on July 16, 2010
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=16268963069
Also, Tweeter doesn't do statuses, it gives me a box within the application that I can tweet from.
status update in Facebook that's more than 140 characters, which is allowed by Facebook but not Twitter, how is Twitter supposed to handle this?
95% of my statuses are under 140 char, but for those that are over, simple pagination or truncation both would be fine with me.
I refuse to believe that it is a small subset of people who want to do this. I'd have thought it would be a logical thing to want to do.
posted by Michael Pemulis at 1:43 PM on July 16, 2010
Also, Tweeter doesn't do statuses, it gives me a box within the application that I can tweet from.
status update in Facebook that's more than 140 characters, which is allowed by Facebook but not Twitter, how is Twitter supposed to handle this?
95% of my statuses are under 140 char, but for those that are over, simple pagination or truncation both would be fine with me.
I refuse to believe that it is a small subset of people who want to do this. I'd have thought it would be a logical thing to want to do.
posted by Michael Pemulis at 1:43 PM on July 16, 2010
Friendfeed is very close to what you want. Every person I know who replicates their status updates btw Twitter and FB does so via FriendFeed.
posted by Ike_Arumba at 1:52 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by Ike_Arumba at 1:52 PM on July 16, 2010
I know several people who use the Twitter app on FB to push Twitters to their FB status, but not the other way around. Seems to work well.
posted by donajo at 2:39 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by donajo at 2:39 PM on July 16, 2010
TweetDeck is a handy application for updating Facebook and Twitter (and a bunch of other social sites). You can set a given update to apply to just one or multiple sites simultaneously. Using a separate program to manage this stuff isn't for everybody but it's worth a shot. Requires Adobe AIR.
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 3:22 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 3:22 PM on July 16, 2010
Seconding Tweetdeck (and it's iPhone version if you happen to be an iPhone person).
posted by dolface at 3:24 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by dolface at 3:24 PM on July 16, 2010
I tweet using my twitter app of choice and have FriendFeed ship it from Twitter to Facebook. I'm not aware of any way to go from Facebook to Twitter, though.
posted by asciident at 3:59 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by asciident at 3:59 PM on July 16, 2010
Not what exactly what you're looking for, but I have this set up:
Set up mobile options on Twitter so you can text your updates
Then have them sent to Fb as your status
posted by damionbroadaway at 4:44 PM on July 16, 2010
Set up mobile options on Twitter so you can text your updates
Then have them sent to Fb as your status
posted by damionbroadaway at 4:44 PM on July 16, 2010
The problem with using the twitter app to have your tweets show up as FB statuses is that you will not get a text from facebook when people comment on the "pushed" status. This is because FB considers the tweet a "post" rather than a "status."
posted by 47triple2 at 6:14 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by 47triple2 at 6:14 PM on July 16, 2010
Ummm, does this not do what you want?
http://www.facebook.com/twitter/
posted by stefnet at 6:43 PM on July 16, 2010
http://www.facebook.com/twitter/
posted by stefnet at 6:43 PM on July 16, 2010
I'm sorry... pay no attention to my post. I misread that you wanted from your personal profile and not a page.
posted by stefnet at 6:45 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by stefnet at 6:45 PM on July 16, 2010
ping.fm will post updates to both twitter and the facebook.
posted by blue grama at 11:24 PM on July 16, 2010
posted by blue grama at 11:24 PM on July 16, 2010
Seconding facebook.com/twitter. This is the official built-in way. Some other information in this thread is false.
posted by oxit at 3:32 AM on July 17, 2010
posted by oxit at 3:32 AM on July 17, 2010
I'd use TweetDeck. If I remember correctly, it allows you to choose whether to send an update to your FB, your Twitter or both.
posted by timdicator at 6:05 AM on July 17, 2010
posted by timdicator at 6:05 AM on July 17, 2010
I prefer Selective Tweets, although I've not used it for a while (sorry, followers). It propagates only Twitter posts using the #fb hashtag.
From what I can see, almost every "professional" Facebook profile -- people or pages -- that I interact with uses a third-party application to push out updates, whether it's Twitter itself, FriendFeed, Social RSS, TweetDeck ... the list is pretty extensive. These are, in many cases, combined with some other way that their stuff gets out there, whether it's a blog, an e-mail list, another social network, or something else.
Ultimately, if you think about the way that Facebook works (semi-walled garden, basically closed) versus Twitter works ("internet infrastructure", basically open) you'll see why FB is more of an endpoint than a propagation point.
People have discussed various ways in which FB could be a peer participator in various social networking feed technologies, but it's unlikely that they would be very interested in something that means people can preferentially use another site.
posted by dhartung at 3:27 PM on July 18, 2010
From what I can see, almost every "professional" Facebook profile -- people or pages -- that I interact with uses a third-party application to push out updates, whether it's Twitter itself, FriendFeed, Social RSS, TweetDeck ... the list is pretty extensive. These are, in many cases, combined with some other way that their stuff gets out there, whether it's a blog, an e-mail list, another social network, or something else.
Ultimately, if you think about the way that Facebook works (semi-walled garden, basically closed) versus Twitter works ("internet infrastructure", basically open) you'll see why FB is more of an endpoint than a propagation point.
People have discussed various ways in which FB could be a peer participator in various social networking feed technologies, but it's unlikely that they would be very interested in something that means people can preferentially use another site.
posted by dhartung at 3:27 PM on July 18, 2010
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