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By Sahana Mysore 76 Comments »

Well, managing friends and social networks isn’t exactly convenient these days because there are so many online services and communities to help you stay in touch with and keep track of other people — Facebook, Twitter, Ning, Plaxo, FriendFeed, Loopt, Brightkite, GChat…the list just goes on and on.  One thing you can do to make it all a little easier is to sync your Facebook and Twitter accounts so that the status messages you enter on one site show up at the other too. Here’s how to do it:

Syncing Facebook and Twitter from Facebook:

1) Search for “Twitter” in Facebook and add the first “Twitter” application that shows up in the search results. (It’s made by Twitter itself.)

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2) Allow Twitter to access your profile.

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3) Log into your Twitter account (via the Twitter application inside Facebook).

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Now your Facebook messages will also show up in Twitter! But there’s one more step to send information from Twitter back to Facebook…

4)  After you test out the Facebook to Twitter functionality by typing a message and clicking on “Update,” click on “Allow Twitter to Update Your Facebook Status”

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5) Allow status updates from Twitter back to Facebook.

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6) Check to see if it works, by logging into twitter.com from a different browser window and entering a status…

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Well, as you can see below, it worked! If you’re an avid user of Twitter and Facebook and you’re finding it difficult to manage status updates, you might want to think about merging the two utilities…

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76 Responses to “How To Sync Your Twitter and Facebook Status Updates”

  1. View Facebook Inbox | Lifedork Says:

    [...] How To Sync Your Twitter and Facebook Status Updates [...]

  2. Matt Baker Says:

    Is this a new feature in the twitter app? It used to not update twitter from facebook only facebook from twitter. If we already had the app installed do we have to reinstall it or something?

  3. Grzegorz Balnis Says:

    Added the app 3 hrs ago, posted status update on FB but so far no post on Twitter. I don’t want Twitter to FB, only the other way around.

  4. Sahana Mysore Says:

    @Matt Baker You have to allow Twitter to access Facebook twice: once to access your profile (which you’ve already done) and again to change the Facebook status message.

  5. Guillaume Says:

    Good to know. Thanks for the tips!

  6. Monique Says:

    Right, so while Twitter can update Facebook, it doesn’t actually work the other way ’round. Facebook will not update Twitter.

  7. Monique Says:

    Darn! Can’t edit my post. I was going to add that the Minggl toolbar allows you to set one status and push it out to all the social networks you belong to that it works with (including Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace) at once.

  8. Joe Dawson Says:

    I have resisted this so far as I doubt my Facebook friends will know what I am on about ha! :)

  9. Nate Says:

    If you go to the twitter app in facebook and post there it will end up on facebook and twitter. twitter will also post to facebook. posting from facebook does not seem to work.

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  11. Daz Says:

    I manage a Facebook Page. Do you know how to sync Twitter so it appears on a page?

  12. Walter Roth Says:

    Do you need to have a public twitter account to do this? I tried with my protected settings and it said I need to make it public…wllr

  13. karpidis Says:

    But if you have done it once with a twitter account and you removed and now you want to use it with another is taking updates from both…

  14. Thomas Massengale Says:

    ?So how do I stop Twitter from updating FB?

  15. Manny Says:

    Very helpful, many thanks for your insight.

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  18. Kristi Says:

    Hi all, I have written a post on how to update Twitter from Facebook. I do it this way, becuase I find I update Facebook much more than I update Twitter.

    http://blog.kristibarrow.com/2008/11/19/how-to-update-twitter-with-your-facebook-status/

  19. Tricia Levane Says:

    Heys, not sure if this help’s but no harm posting. Had problems with selective posting and account mixups. Found my solution with this guy’s tutorial:

    http://cogito.faii.net/linking-facebook-to-twitter-tutorial/

    He details using this other app that helps post selectively only.

    However he says it doesn’t work if your twitter feed is on private/safe mode.

    Cheers and hope it helps!

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  22. Olga Kouzina Says:

    anyone can help – someone asked it before -how to sync twitter feed with company feed? same for blog updates? or do I need to get some purchased Facebook stuff to find out?

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  24. k4ti Says:

    How can i get it back to normal, so twitter isn’t updating my facebook status?

  25. Jeremy Says:

    How do you synch twitter with a Facebook FAN page?

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  27. Peter L. Berghold Says:

    So far I’m not very impressed with this. For one thing after following the instructions things did not go as described in the steps outlined above.

    First off, I never got a screen asking me to allow the application access to my FB information. All I get is a blank screen.

    Is this yet another one of those applications that is written only to support Micro$oft IE? If so, it impresses me even less.

  28. jody marie Says:

    I have it so my twitter updates show on facebook….
    so, how do I get my facebook updates to post on twitter?

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  30. AbdC Says:

    is there a way you can update your twitter status but don’t want that SPECIFIC status to appear on facebook?? because some things i might not want family on facebook to see my twitter updates. thanks!

  31. Jeffrey Evan Mufson Says:

    Right now (since March) Facebook is not allowing updates to Twitter via Facebook site, although vice versa IS currently allowed.

    Someone please get me back when Facebook finally comes to their senses!

  32. Mark Tristan R. Ocampo (Macky) Says:

    Found the Twitter application on Facebook!!! Post within the Twitter app in Facebook and it shows on your Twitter account. Post on Twitter and it shows on your Facebook account.

    [BUT!!!] from Facebook to Twitter, you can only post from within the Twitter app. If you post on Facebook from your Wall, it will NOT SYNC to Twitter.

    Anyway, my dilemma is HALF-RESOLVED. ;) Anyone found a COMPLETE SOLUTION, kindly tell.

  33. Mark Tristan R. Ocampo (Macky) Says:

    [Follow-up post]

    I guess I’ll be logging-in to my Twitter account more often and be fascinated by watching it pop-up on my Facebook account. C’mon, Facebook! You can do better than that! =)

  34. subcorpus Says:

    good one here …
    thanks for sharing …
    checking it out now …

  35. Dazediva Says:

    Hey all …

    I would suggest something simpler .. if you use http://www.su.pr – you can simultaneously update BOTH facebook and twitter :)

    Hope this helps !!

  36. rasyid Says:

    thanks for the info… appreciate it

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  39. kyliemc Says:

    thanks for the step-by-step guide :D it’s been a great help

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  42. Dave O Rama Says:

    I want to do it the other way around.
    I hate logging into Twitter and I update my Facebook all the time.

    How can I sync Facebook and Twitter up so when I update my status on Facebook it automatically updates Twitter?

  43. Nikhil Gala Says:

    application is not updating twitter with facebook statuses frequently.

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  45. aman Says:

    It works perfectly fine .. thank you!

  46. Chris Perez-Wood Says:

    Urmm…. I added this app, and it wont update when I update via twitter.com

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  48. Roman Says:

    I have a problem, I synced facebook with twitter and it allows me to update my facebook status via twitter. However, whenever I include an @reply in my tweet it does not post to my facebook profile!! someone please help

  49. RufusP Says:

    Safari can’t open the page.
    Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://apps.facebook.com/session”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page.

    In other words, it didn’t work.

  50. Pascal van Zandvoort Says:

    i use http://www.isstarting.com to update my twitter AND facebook status with one click. I also see if i got new mail on facebook or twitter.

    works very easy

  51. ANTHONY CHERRY Says:

    HEY

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  53. DNA82981 Says:

    Yay! It worked! Thanks! Now I can update both at the same time. Very happy!

  54. Together And A Bunch Of New Websites Says:

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  55. Anonymous Says:

    All i’m getting is a white screen where the application is supposed to be. help.

  56. Jesse DeRouen Says:

    I have discovered that there is a bit of a lag between the length of time it is tweeted and the length of time it is posted to Facebook…

  57. r3pt Says:

    I think the http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/ is going to crash or hacked…!

    Its blank.. I smell something bad on the connection between twitter/facebook.. hahah

  58. Jorge Cristino Says:

    The twitter app on Facebook works just fine.

    The only thing I noticed is that when I update my Facebook through the [Facebook home/profile/wall pages] it doesn’t update my twitter.
    -BUT-
    If I want my facebook updates to show on Twitter, I _HAVE_ to use the app page (http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/).

    If you pay attention to that then it’s OK.

    Or you could just use some other service like http://ping.fm/, but that does mean you have to login to yet another site :P

  59. Ben McFerren Says:

    Hi – since Facebook added the language toggle for posts, my sync seems to have taken by the way-side. Anyone have insight as to whether I can have one synch/feed for each language that I post in?

  60. evella Says:

    I have been trying to use this advice to update my Twitter from FB. In order to use FB updates to your Twitter, you must update your status using the Twitter app for FB. It will not update your Twitter using the “What’s on your mind” box on FB. You must update only on the app. Then both work fine, from FB to Twitter and Twitter to FB, but it is annoying.

  61. benehalfirman Says:

    amazing aplication…twitter is good..but I cant find something usefull on there…

  62. Steve Vernon Says:

    My plan in linking one of my Facebook pages to Twitter was simply to share Facebook updates to my Twitter followers — not to have them post on my primary Facebook profile for all my Facebook friends to see. But Twitter is forwarding all those updates BACK to my primary Facebook profile, and I can’t figure out if there’s a way to make it only one-way (Facebook to Twitter). Most of my regular Facebook friends are not interested in the business page I’m trying sync with Twitter.

  63. Chad Says:

    I’ve tried these instructions, but when I type a message into my Facebook account – It is NOT automatically showing up on my Twitter account. It’s only showing that if I type something into Twitter it will show up on Facebook now.. I don’t need that, I want it the other way around. Am I doing something wrong?

  64. virak Says:

    Thanks so much…

  65. Mike Says:

    Great idea & works great

  66. Robert Says:

    Is there any way that you can sync your twitter to update your business profile instead of your user profile?

  67. Laurie @turban_diva Says:

    To disconnect twitter from FB go to your Twitter profile and select the Connections tab. Find the app & click “remove access.

  68. Francine Romesburg Says:

    Well, followed all instructions, done this off & on all day. installed Twitter on FB, logged into both, posted on both, nothing shows up on either. The Twitter shortcut on FB when I click on it, brings up a blank page. Other factors are very irritating, frustrating, may just give up on whole thing! the sync thing I mean….any ideas out there?????

  69. Stephanie Ivy Says:

    I have tried this a thousand times. I have added it, removed it, logged out and in over and over, but I can’t get the tweets to show up on my facebook account. When I click the edit link for twitter through facebook, I enter my username and password, but the next page is just completely white. There is nothing to click. It never asked me the “allow” question, but I checked the “Publish recent activity (one line stories) to my wall” box in the Application Settings. Help!!

  70. Abdullah Azzouni Says:

    Stephanie Ivy,

    I have the exact same problem. I’m not sure what’s going on. If I find a solution, I will post it here. The same goes for you please.

  71. Abdullah Azzouni Says:

    It looks like the current way to do it is to add the “Tweet (formerly Twitter Updater)” application to your Facebook page. You will then have to click the “tweet” option when updating your Facebook status and it will update your Twitter status. Personally, I prefer this solution as I use Facebook much more than Twitter. They say they are working on getting the status to update automatically without having to click the tweet button (see the tab called “sad news”).

  72. John H Says:

    Stephanie Ivy, Abdullah Azzouni

    It has worked previously, but updating your Facebook via Twitter using this method isn’t working at the moment.

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  75. Quentin J Smith Says:

    This just doesn’t work!

  76. alex Says:

    dosen’t work for me either… :(

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