Selective Twitter Status Can Syndicate Tweets to Facebook Public Profiles

April 16th, 2009

By Matt Holliday

A new Facebook application called Selective Twitter Status by Andy Young, a computer science student at Oxford, is enabling public profile owners to syndicate their Twitter updates to their Facebook public profile automatically for the first time. This is a feature that many have been waiting on. Selective Twitter Status also works with personal profiles, too.

In addition to being able to update public profiles, Selective Twitter Status (as its name implies) also allows users to select which Tweets to syndicate to Facebook. If you’re using Twitter’s update syndication Facebook app, you know that every Tweet you post shows up on Facebook, which can cause some major clutter. It’s especially confusing to Facebook friends if you’re responding to Twitter users.

Now you can control which Tweets you want to make it to your Facebook page – just add “#fb” to the end of your Tweets to update your Facebook status.

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Setup couldn’t be easier. Simply go to the application, choose either a Page/public profile you own (or your personal profile) and enter your Twitter user name. Make sure you turn off automatic updating from your Twitter account, or all your Tweets will still pop up on Facebook.

That’s it. You can now enjoy the convenience of syndicated posting without flooding your Facebook profile or public profile!

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9 Responses to “Selective Twitter Status Can Syndicate Tweets to Facebook Public Profiles”

Lucho Castillo Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I tried to update the status of a public profile from Twitter with this app but I havn´t been able to do so… Did you do it with the InsideFacebook public Profile , Justin?
Andy Young Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
@Lucho what was the problem?
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April 17th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
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Hyokon Zhiang Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 2:35 am
Worked greatly. Thank you very much.
TweetFace is a More Powerful Way to Update Facebook from Twitter Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
[...] Facebook Connect gives users more control over which Tweets show up on their Facebook page. Like Selective Twitter Status, TweetFace lets Twitter users filter which updates change their Facebook status. However, TweetFace [...]
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May 3rd, 2009 at 2:50 am
[...] niż wysyłanie spamu na skrzynkę Facebookową. Uwaga, firmy, które używają Twittera mogą zsynchronizować go z kontem na FB. Ostatnią nowością o której chcę napisać jest możliwość rozróżnienia wyświetlanej [...]
rika sima Says:
September 17th, 2009 at 1:43 am
it so easy…
Teacher Says:
May 15th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Share information good, can increase data and information we also.
steve Says:
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:44 pm
hi. i tried this and opened my profile in new page but didnt see the update, only saw update on FB news feed.

WHY?