My Twitter account got linked to Facebook like a year or two ago and ever since, my tweets automatically appear on Facebook as status updates (with via twitter written under the posts). This lets me update my profile on both social networks at the same time. The only drawback was that only I could only send tweets to Facebook, I couldn’t update my status on Facebook and then send it to Twitter as a tweet.
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It wasn’t until a week ago when I was messing around my Facebook settings that I realized it was actually possible to do this. Your status on Facbook, uploaded photos and everything you do can be posted to Twitter. I have no idea how long it’s been there but finding it out was like an awesome discovery :p I’ll be explaining how to post from Facebook to Twitter and how to post from Twitter to Faceboook.
Posting from Facebook to Twitter
- Go to your Facebook account settings
- Select Subscribers from the links on the left
- Click to edit Twitter settings and hit the Link profile to Twitter button
- Grant the application the required permission to access your Twitter account
- After granting the required access, you should be prompted to confirm posts you want to “synchronize” with your Twitter account.
- With this done, your status updates on Facebook now appear on Twitter as tweets, depending on the options you selected.
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Posting Tweets to Facebook (via Twitter)
The whole process above only lets you post from Facebook to Twitter, you have to do something similar on Twitter too to make your tweets appear on FB.
- Log in to Twitter and click on Edit Profile from the drop-down menu at the top right
- Scroll down till you see the “Connect to Facebook” button
- On the page that pops up, click Log in with Facebook button
- Grant the Twitter application the required permission to post on your Facebook wall
- You should now be redirected back to Twitter and you only need to hit the “Save changes button to complete the whole thing.
- With all this done, your tweets should be posted on Facebook as status upates (with “via twitter” written below the post. With these cross-posting set up, it’s a lot easier to update both social networs at the same time.
Twitter: dekokoblog
says:
Nice update the Don. It is good to connect our social network accounts. I just connect my Face, Twitter to my Google Plus
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Twitter: divyanshojha
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both mentioned methods are extremely useful. Specially to inform friends who are not using any one of the facebook or twitter
Twitter: xixicx
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Nice share Mr.Wale,i could do twitter to facebook but not the other way around (it crossed my mind,but was too lazy to give it a thought/try lol)
…….Thankxs 2 ya’ now i know
,but Don c is there a similar way to synchronise facebook with a blog?
……….Say WordPress or Blogger?
to recive status updates from fb?
Posting from Facebook to a blog? I don’t know if that’s possible, bro.
Twitter: xixicx
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Yeah ok
……but i would be cool tho if it was possible.
Twitter: Okaztle
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Its a good feature though, its been for long as i was also messing around that day which makes me locate it too in ma Act settings. http://www.okaztle.com/2012/07/how-to-connect-your-facebook-account-to-twitter.html
Twitter: Briggz5d
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I would have loved to link my two fav social networks together but is there any way i can control what goes from twitter to facebook wall?
I tweet alot, wouldn’t wanna flood my facebook with unnecessary tweets.
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I’m not really sure that’s possible once you grant the application access to post on your Facebook wall.
Twitter: daayur
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Nice, helpful and highly informative post…thanks the Don
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Twitter: ArewaTech_CEO
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Thank you for the article. This would save me the time of posting same thing at two places