I spent the previous week checking out the various Twitter applications to sync your Twitter feed with your Facebook account, I initially started my venture because I wanted to sync our Twitter account @etasflorida with our Extreme Tan and Smoothies Facebook Fan page,which turned out to be a complete failure btw.
After screwing around with the various applications available on Facebook that claim to sync your Twitter account with your Facebook account I decided to write this post in hopes that it might help some of you make the best choice for syncing Twitter with Facebook.
How to Connect Twitter with Facebook
If you are a Facebook rookie you might not know where to find applications or how to install them, take a minute and check out my post How to Find Twitter Facebook Applications, that should give you a decent idea of where to find what your looking for.
Twitter Applications for Facebook
1. Supa Sync
Supa Sync Facebook Application
This one was really promising and looked perfect for what I would like to do with Twitter, Supa Sync claims to remove @hashtags and @ replies from tweets that are synced with your Facebook account. I played around with this application for a while trying to get it to work and didn’t have any success as it didn’t seem to send my tweets to my Facebook page, if you have better luck with this one let me know because it has some features I would like to take advantage of.
2. Twitter
Twitter Facebook Application
This is the official Twitter application for Facebook and is very generic, it will take every tweet that you send and display it as a Facebook status update. I used this one for a while but quickly grew irritated with it sending ALL of my tweets as well as #hashtags and @ replies to my Facebook wall, and I am sure that my Facebook friends were also pretty annoyed with this Twitter app in place.
Selective Twitter Status Facebook Application
This is the one I am currently using to selectively sync my Twitter messages with my Facebook page and it was certainly the quickest and easiest application out of the three apps to install. Selective Twitter Status will sync your tweet with your Facebook page every time you add #fb to the end of a tweet, this is handy for choosing which tweets show up in your Facebook status updates and a pretty nice application if you tweet from an iPhone appp or the Uber Twitter Blackberry application.
I have to say that I am really disappointed with the Facebook apps that allow you to share your tweets with your Facebook status updates and on your Facebook wall, I thought for sure there would be a few more options out there with some different features.
If you currently use a better Facebook application to share your tweets from Twitter to your Facebook please leave a comment and let me know what it is, I will be more than happy to check it out and review the application on Extreme John. If you found this post somewhat helpful you might want to subscribe to my rss feed or follow me on Twitter to stay up to date with my blog updates.
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I am using Selective Twitter Status on my facebook as well..Its much more simpler and easy..
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@Compute Live, I agree.
I got burnt out on all these lame ass apps I’m tired of Facebook and I barely use twitter guess you can say I was waiting for that site that was Pimping for Bloggers to come along be here soon I suppose. Apps are for yuppies LOL
then it’s a RAP
I did used to like that one that would unfollow people on twitter.The point I’m making is social media is played and scammed out LIVE is right around the corner which will be good because it will smoke out all the GOOFS ;) that have been convincing people they are some kinda Guru Dude it’s showtime I just have to get my wife to shut up so I can do the SHOW LOL
hope all is good your way
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@John Sullivan, thats deep bro. Either way as long as your having a good time, not on Twitter and not on Facebook haha. Keep being you brother.
No idea John.. I don’t think that my tweets would translate very well to facebook status updates, so I’m not entirely happy with trying to sync the two
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@Hard Rocking South African@Music Judge, yeah it is def on a user by user preference basis.
I have been using ping.fm to update all my status updates over a collection of sites via my mobile, I’ll give this a try and see how it works on my crazy tweets…
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@Karen@Blazing Minds, keep us posted Karen
I might have to try Ping.fm
@Extreme John, there are also some Wordpress plugins to use ping.fm to blast your posts to the many sites that you can select on the site, so it’s certainly worth a look…
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@Karen@Blazing Minds, do I feel a blog post coming on ? ;)
Twitter and Facebook sync is really good idea. I thinkI am gonna try “Selective Twitter Status” right now. Awesome post John, helped me instantly.
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@Sanjeev@Internet Techies, excellent and thanks for leaving comments. Stop back and let us know what you thought of the app.
Hello,
Nice apps, but what I am using right now is Tweetdeck in syncing my Twitter to Facebook. :D
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@Kelvin Servigon, Tweet Deck is good but if you Tweet from a mobile device and want that update to go to Twitter and Facebook Tweet Deck can’t get that done. At least to my knowledge, for someone like me who is out more than I am in I need the mobile ability.
I don’t integrate my Facebook account with Twitter account because I don’t want people on facebook read what I tweet. Sometimes our tweets is not suitable for Facebook exposure.. :D
@Een Rockstar, thats a very good point Een not everyone on Facebook wants to read Tweets anyway.
so now we can optimize both of them with one step.. nice.. i learn so much new things from your blog . i wonder how many hour you spend for blogging every single day , john ?
@EarningStep, some days it’s 20 hours and at other times I can go days without doing anything on my blog, all though I hate those days.
I haven’t tried any of the above application. Currently I am happy with tweetdeck. Let me try “Selective twitter status” application ;)
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@Ricky, let me know what you think about ti Ricky
I don’t currently use one of these apps cuz I’d rather keep twitter off my page but may add it in the future. Thanks for the info though.
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I have seen selective twitter as the most popular method, mainly because you just need to add #fb
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@gautam hans, yeah it seems like the easiest and most widely used as well.
Hi John, many thanks for posting this excellent post I’ve been looking for a decent way to sync Twitter and Facebook and I think this may fit the bill!
@Brian my pleasure I’m happy you found it useful and thank you for taking the time to comment I greatly appreciate it.
Hi John,
I am the developer of SupaSync, and I’m really sorry to hear you had issues with it. I’d be happy to look into your issues further, if you care to contact me.
For those who have issues with SupaSync, the issue is either with your Facebook permissions (which are needed for SupaSync to update FB, and are granted when you save your settings) or with your Twitter authorisation (which means SupaSync can’t read your tweets).
I am working on the next version of SupaSync which contains better error logging and identification, and users will be able to see if there are any issues with their setup and resolve them right there on the SupaSync settings page.
If anyone would like further help with their SupaSync, feel free to contact me on Twitter (@SupaSync).
Best Regards,
Jason
I am using facebook application that connect with twitter. John can you give me some idea how can I increase my twitter follower. I am using some application, but till now I am not getting much follower.
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Hi again Guys,
Just a quick comment to say that I have put a fix in place which should resolve the issues people were experiencing with SupaSync.
Best Regards,
Jason
How do you get the twitter feed to sync into our company’s facebook page – it seems to just keep going into my personal facebook profile.
I am have the same problem with SupaSync! It looked really promising. But it does not seem to be posting anything from Twitter! I am going to try Selective Twitter Updates now!
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Tweetdeck has worked nicely for me so far. Unfortunately, it does not seem to support Ow.ly as a URL compression (selectable option)
I will be trying this one soon. Thanks for this excellent post!
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