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Twitter Will Update Your Facebook Status – Here's How…

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There have been a lot of people asking me how I am able to use Twitter and have my latest tweet also appear as my Facebook status. I wish I could remember where I first heard about this, but it does seem to be working.

Here’s how.

  1. Get the Twitter application installed in your Facebook profile here: Twitter App For Facebook.
  2. You’ll notice a link that says: Want Twitter to update your Facebook status? Click here!

That’s it.

There may be some time lag, but it seems to be working fine for me. My understanding is that those who really pump the messages out in Twitter may have some of them get lost. I seem to recall reading somewhere that Facebook only checks your Twitter every thirty minutes (or so). I’m not twittering that much to have this issue, so I’m quite happy with this new additional functionality.

The only reason I’m not thrilled with it is that I am having Twitku flashbacks. Twitku allows you to post once and then have the message distributed via both Twitter and Jaiku. I felt like I was cheating, so I dropped Jaiku and stuck with Twitter.

This morning I also realized how bad I was at answering messages left to my Facebook Inbox. There are many Marketers grappling with what they should (and shouldn’t) use in the Social Media space. I must admit, managing one’s Digital Presence can be time consuming.

Thankfully, I love playing with this stuff.

95 comments

  1. Thanks, Mitch. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while, but never followed up on it. Your note spurred me to consolidate my “lifestream” just a bit more…

  2. Thanks for posting this! I’ve recently blogged about Twitter and one of my complaints was why i couldn’t just have one status update that propagates to other sites.
    I’ve had a twitter feed on my facebook for a while, but never actually bothered to click on the application settings to see what other options were there.
    i’m still not completely sold on microblogging as an essential piece of my social graph, but this certainly helps!

  3. It’s easy to turn on this feature… but how in the world do you turn it off? Now I’ve got double-posting to my Facebook mini-feed… one from the Twitter application, and then immediately afterward one showing my updated Facebook status! VERY annoying. I can’t find any settings in the Twitter FB app to turn off either one.

  5. Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for. I even mistyped facbook in google and it found your page! Also thanks for anoymous for posting some fixes.
    Jeremy

  7. This is all well and good, but why do I have to supply my Twitter password to enable this update? The feed is openly available to anyone who wants to get it so why the authentication element for Facebook updates?
    Sorry no external ’system’ get my passwords.
    – J.

  8. I had set up the app with my work twitter account, then when I got a personal twitter account I tried to make the FB app work with that . . . now they BOTH update my FB status.
    Anyone know how to fix that?

  10. I have had the exact same problem as Angela. I can’t get Facebook to drop my work Twitter and only update from my Personal Twitter. Has anyone found a solution????!!

  11. Thanks for the tip.
    Unsure why Facebook is so confusing to get it doing what I want… I can barely make heads or tails of the various “streams”, news, profile, wall, photos … really IMO it should all be one stream.
    Very nice site BTW.

  12. Thanks for the unbiased info. I’m trying to manage all this as well. Just about to add Twitter as a full-time communication tool and not a once-a-week hobby. We’ll see. I’d rather add more sunsets and morning jogs, but instead I add another social networking tool. Hm.

  13. Well, I’m not even sure I want to twitter, but I do occasionally update my status line on Facebook, so might as well hit more birds with one stone if I can.

  14. This is all great but… does anybody know how to turn the automatic updates OFF???
    I now use ping.fm and it’s so much more convenient to have the simultaneous update only if/when I want it…
    Txs
    Simone

  18. My problem is that I would not like ALL of my tweets to update my Facebook status. I would rather prefer to hit a button in my Twitter client (ie Tweetdeck or DestroyTwitter) and have selected tweets update my FB aswell

  19. I just had someone hack into my facebook update status with profanity, not only once but twice today.
    I wonder if someone can more easily hack a twitter account for the status update because I believe it would be rather hard to hack into my facebook account.
    Curious…..

  20. I have a personal page/profile, which I update my status on periodically.
    Under the same account, I have a Business Page (Pedigree Consultants LLC). Now the issue I have is that my twitter account is for my business. I want the twitter updates to update the status on the business page, but NOT my personal profile page. At the moment, whatever twitter app I have used, updates my personal page/profile which is not what I want.
    Any ideas?

  23. To turn it off:
    1. Login to Facebook
    2. Go to http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php?
    3. Click Profile link beside the Twitter App
    4. At the bottom of the left hand column click remove App.
    Like Splurt I decided I’d rather have Facebook update Twitter b/c my tweets are more numerous and not quite relevant to Facebook status updates.

  24. Same problem as Byron.
    How do we update a Facebook Page and not our personal profile?

  25. Is there any way to update an actual page, not just a profile from twitter? For example, I am creating some pages for three magazines and was wanting to be able to update them via twitter, is that possible without it being a profile or having its own url yet?

  26. I used to use the Facebook Twitter app, but it falls down if you get into a twitter discussion (even if it handles all the updates it’s nonsense for your Facebook friends. Now I use Ping set to update both for status messages but only twitter for ‘microblogging’ messages. Total control. By default it updates both but I can easily set it to update just one or the other

  28. Thanks for the post that’s a great help.
    To turn it off you need to go to Facebook Applications and edit the Twitter settings Update Feeds.

  30. Thanks for this info… Not sure if someone has pointed this out already, but the update from twitter to facebook is lagging by only a few seconds now.

  31. I changed my screen name in Twitter last week and since then the integration isn’t working anymore.
    I tried everything. Deleting the application in Facebook, deleting all cookies, changing my Twitter screen name back to the old one.
    Nothing works.
    It looks like the application is gone, but during re-installation the application is using the old account information of Twitter.
    The error message I get is during installing the application that the redirection page is pointing to a page which doesn’t exist.
    Thanks in advance.

  32. I just noticed that this morning, Chris. Yesterday it was working fine. This morning I posted on twitter and Facebook didn’t update. I looked at the app, tried a bunch of things, it’s not working. I’m going to find Facebook’s twitter account and ask them what’s up.

  38. Thanks for the info! I couldn’t find how to update facebook with my twitter until I found your page

  40. Posts on twitter are not auto posting to to facebook. I have added this app to my facebook page, but when I click on settings, the page is blank. When I click on connections (in twitter) facebook is not listed. My goal is to autopost from Twitter acct: montecitofire to Govt Facebook Page: Montecito Fire.

  42. thanks, i’ll have to see how this works. but it was just what i was looking for. i dont know why they dont make this easier or a link on twitter itself.

  43. Hi,
    Same with Byron and J Dawg, we’ve been trying to find out a way to connect our tweets directly to our facebook page (company page) If there is a solution we’d appreciate it greatly!
    Thanks

  46. Hey, thanks for sharing this. Really helpful. More power! You rank 1st in Google 1st page using the keyword ‘twitter updates on facebook’ Great job!

  47. Same here! I just want twitter to update my fb status… and not vice versa!
    did you ever get it done?
    thanks!

  49. i tried to add this application to my facebook and but when ever i try to login this application through my facebook account it says : ” Oops! Something went wrong:
    Invalid credentials Invalid user name or password ”
    Please HelLPP

  50. I was doing this for so long when I just removed it and wanted it back I forgot how I uploaded it in the first place. Thanks a ton! Very easy!

  51. I sthere a way to do the opposite? That my status updates get posted as tweets? because really, I am more of a facebook user than a tweeter.

  52. Since I use Facebook primarily I use Twitterfeed to update my Twitter status with my Facebook status. It’s a totally different process from the one you described but achieves the same ends, only in reverse.

  53. This appears to have stopped working in the past day or so. Twitter updates are posted to MY WALL on facebook, but MY STATUS is no longer updated. Oh man.

  55. I noticed the same thing, and I am trying like mad to figure it out … anyone have answers?! Thanks

  56. I landed on this page looking for a solution to the same problem as you, Tim and Chris. Apparently the developers of that facebook app just changed the behavior (without any sort of notice, which is so weird) of the app so that it posts tweets to one’s wall rather than as a status.
    I’ve followed other users’ advice and switched to another facebook app called Smart Twitter — so far, so good.

  57. By the way this App won’t work with facebook pages…and nobody knows why

  59. I am looking to find a way to feed my one twitter account into multiple facebook pages/ accounts. Is this possible? if so, how?
    thanks!
    Lauren

  61. Thanks Hidden Jackal – finally got it to work – your link was SUPER easy. For some reason cannot for the life of me work out how to link FB BUSINESS page updates to Twitter!!

  62. hmm, I’ve tried it out and it seems that Twitter won’t Update my Facebook “STATUS”, it just posts a “WALL POST” to the Facebook Wall.
    Any advice? Tell me if I wrong.

  64. My tweets and networked blogs are updating my facebook status just fine. Is there away for my fb status to automatically be posted on my twitter page as tweets ?

  65. since I use facebook website so i didn’t know about status updated..how to update your facebook status with the help of other website but now i am easily update my facebook/twitter status with the help of interlink websites.

  66. Hey mates, um question: I have chromed bird and update twitter with that. Chromed bird updates twitter, but not twitter AND facebook. But an update direct to twitter.com DOES update facebook. How do I update Twitter AND facebook via chromed bird? thanks.

  67. Hi, thanks for making this so simple and straightforward! I have just been searching for ways to do this and there are many complicated directions out there. This is such a simple thing to do, yet was hard to get the clearest of instructions.
    Thanks again, Sonya

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  71. What about when you want Justin Bieber’s twitter tweets to update your facebook status. Do you know how to do that?

  73. Since I use Facebook primarily I use Twitter-feed to update my Twitter status with my Facebook status. It’s a totally different process from the one you described but achieves the same ends, only in reverse.
    Great article.

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