How To Link Your Twitter Page and Facebook Profile For Social Media Sanity

Managing many social media sites can be a bit challenging for the non-profit who has little time and/or resources. Many social media sites, including Facebook, recognize this fact. They also know that social media is increasingly being used for fundraising.

To make managing multiple sites easier, Facebook allows you to post your social media activities on Twitter by posting tweets directly from your Facebook page (and visa versa).

How To Link Your Twitter and Facebook Profile

After you log into your Facebook account, follow these steps:

1. Search for “Twitter” in Facebook’s search field:

2. Click the “Allow” button in the “Allow Application” window:

3. After being prompted to log-in to Twitter, you will come to this page:

4. Anything you type in the “What are you doing?” field will be instantly posted to Twitter:

5. If you want your facebook status to be updated with every post you make from Twitter, click the following (see warning below):

Warning: posting EVERY tweet to your status can be annoying to your facebook friends (I learned the hard way ). Consider how often you use Twitter before selecting this option.

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http://www.2ultra.com William

Great tip. Very useful. Thanks
Gunnar Engblom

Got the twitter update only on my “pages”, but not for my personal update….did I do anything wrong?
http://www.FaithComesByHearing.com Jon D. Wilke

Awesome. Thanks for a great tip. I kept wondering which one updated which one, but your post was simple enough to answer my questions.
http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com Gunnar Engblom

Jon
On my facebook the twitter app was created on the page I have created for my bird watching tour business Kolibri Expeditions. Thus when doing the regular update on my home “Gunnar Engblom is….”, nothing happened on the twitter update. To be able to do also an update on the twitter, I would have needed to enter into the pages area and the “kolibri expeditions page”…
a bit too many steps if you ask me.
Maybe it works fine if you have not created this business page (to which I can invite fans) within my account. I have not really explored the page function fully. I think facebook wants you to pay some money to do advertising for this part, but the regular page works just as well as a social network for by business. After all I am Kolibri Expeditions and vice versa. Facebook is a good way to humanise a business and I think the potential clients like that.

Gunnar Engblom
Kolibri Expeditions
http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com

PS: Like your posts. Made a plug for your blog on NEOORN – a listserver for Ornithologists in the Neotropics (South and Central America). Many non profit journals have a hard time surviving on membership fees today when sharing pdfs over the net has become rule. They need to look at online techniques to attract readers and supporters for their cause.
http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com Gunnar Engblom

John, it was the other way around. The app made it in to the business part of my facebook (as part of “Pages”). Play around with pages on your facebook and you’ll see what I mean. I wanted to have the app on my profile naturally.
http://inprogress.typepad.com/studio501c celeste w, studio 501c blog

John, I enjoy your posts. Am I doing something wrong? If I follow the instructions above, e.g., and only go as far as step 4, nothing happens. But if I go to step 5, I Twitter will update Facebook. Also, if you have guidance on what the various settings mean in the Twitter application settings on Facebook, I think many of us would be grateful. Thanks.
http://inprogress.typepad.com/studio501c celestew

Hi, John. I just re-read the directions. Now that I understand more, I don’t see much value in the “update from Facebook” feature. (Moreover, the function isn’t working for me at all–I get a “something is technically wrong page” when I try to answer “What are you doing now?” via Facebook.) But regardless, it appears to be only a doorway to Twitter–if you install the Twitter application, you can update Twitter, and follow friends, but it does not allow you to update your Facebook status AND your Twitter status at the same time. (Whatever I posted on the Twitter tab in Facebook would have to be re-entered into the Facebook update box.) I think this may be related to what Gunnar is experiencing. However, as you show in step 5 above, if you chose that option, whatever you post on Twitter will show up in your Facebook update. Though, as you point out, this may not be beneficial.
http://www.corporatedollar.com johnscotthaydon

@Gunner – That’s strange. I just deleted my facebook Twitter app, re-installed it and it worked on my profile – until I posted. Twitter seems to be having some technical difficulties. It is installed on my profile though – not my page.

I’ll do some homework on the Twitter – Page issue.

@celestew – The value for non-profits is that because they might spend a great deal of time in Facebook, they can just tweet from their profile. In terms of posting from Twitter to Facebook, I think it’s ok, just as long as you’re not posting a lot, like I do. For example, on Thursday night, I play this Twitter game called “Tweet One Word“. I’ll post over 50 times in one hour…
http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com Gunnar Engblom

John

I am trying to find where I read it but I can’t, but I am pretty sure when I was checking out this plugin that I found that there is a limit of number of updates you can do on facebook per day. And the @name does not count as updates when you use twitter automatic update of facebook. I am still in the lower limit of tweets, so I think I am OK with the getting the tweets direct to facebook. Just have to think that I don’t tweet too silly things though. But I guess I should think that all the time.
Gunnar Engblom
Kolibri Expeditions
http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com
onemotherslove

I got my twitter updates to show up on facebook, but not my facebook updates to show on twitter. Did I miss something?
http://www.corporatedollar.com johnscotthaydon

@onemotherslove – You didn’t miss anything. Facebook updates aren’t posted to Twitter. What’s explained here is the ability to post to Twitter via the Facebook Twitter app. Hope that helps.
http://www.ThoughtsHappen.net Louise

Thanks for posting this. I’ll keep it open as an option but don’t know if I’ll end up using it. For me, I like having Facebook as more of a “personal space” where I can comment to my friends and not have to feel like the world is watching. I am still figuring out where the line gets drawn between personal and business (per @Gunnar’s comments about his expedition business). Not sure if I want all my fb updates going public.
http://www.parature.com Yesenia Chappell

So, does the Twitter application work on Facebook pages? I tried to install it but the only way that worked for me was updating my personal profile update and I didn’t want that. I have a corporate account on Twitter and a Facebook page that I want to synchronize. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Julie

I am having the same problem with Twitter and Facebook. It seems that the directions in this post only apply if you are working from a personal Facebook Profile, which is accessible only to individuals and not organizations or businesses. I have tried to add the Twitter Application for my Non-Profit Organization’s business Page (the closest an organization can get to a personal profile) and also from our “Non-Profit Partner” Page. Neither would let me add this application.
Seems like I am not the only one encountering this problem.
Any advice?
Can a Twitter account be linked with a Facebook Page for an organization?
http://ebook-site.com Bryan Quinn

Excellent post although it often seems to me that people write more often than not what I generally take for granted. I have learned something here.
Thanks

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http://Facebook.comsearchOracleCRM Divya

Hello,

I stumbled across your posting. I too am having issues with importing the twitter feed (twitter.com/oraclecrm) to the Facebook Business Page, it appears on my home page but not on the profile page for OracleCRM. Any pointers?

Also on another note, any idea on how to import your You Tube channel into FB?
Thx,
Divya
http://www.socialfactory.net/ twitter application developers

Your instructions were super simple to follow. im a bit concerned about other posts where people are having problems with this. Guess you have to just get out there, do it, and see if it works.

http://www.johnhaydon.com johnhaydon

The main issue people have is linking Twitter and Facebook and then realizing they're bugging their Facebook friends with all their tweets (like I did).

http://www.1socialmediaagency.com/ Social Media Agency

is there any other way of connecting twitter with face book profile without bugging friends at facebook
http://www.johnhaydon.com John Haydon

I don't know about profiles, but Pages, Yes – If you use the “Selective
Tweets” Facebook app. Simply End a tweet with #fb when you want to update
your status.

http://www.socialfactory.net/ twitter application developers

Your instructions were super simple to follow. im a bit concerned about other posts where people are having problems with this. Guess you have to just get out there, do it, and see if it works.
http://www.johnhaydon.com John Haydon

The main issue people have is linking Twitter and Facebook and then realizing they're bugging their Facebook friends with all their tweets (like I did).
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JoyDoctor

I attempted the steps to add Twitter onto my Facebook account as you instructed, however only came up with a Twitter Fan page — no update capability. Has this process changed? Or am I missing something here? Thanks

http://www.johnhaydon.com John Haydon

Not that I know of.

http://www.johnhaydon.com John Haydon

Not that I know of.
Mizzy_keira

really useful ! thanks for this info !
http://www.corporatedollar.com johnscotthaydon

@William – Thanks for stopping by.
http://www.corporatedollar.com johnscotthaydon

@Jon – Anytime. Do me a huge favor and retweet this post. I think there are a lot of folks who don’t know the Twitter Facebook connection.

@Gunnar – Can you be more specific? What do you mean by “personal”
http://www.corporatedollar.com johnscotthaydon

@Gunner – The Twitter synch works only with Facebook Profiles (someone correct me?). Business pages don’t have this functionality. Thanks for the plug on your blog! Gunnar – please email me anytime with questions – anytime! john@corporatedollar.org
http://www.corporatedollar.com johnscotthaydon

@Gunnar – Hmmm – delete the app, log-out, start over?
http://www.corporatedollar.com johnscotthaydon

@Yesenia – I haven’t tried to synch with Pages – only Profiles. Let me know what you find out!
http://www.corporatedollar.com johnscotthaydon

@Julie – This post deals only with profiles, not pages. Make sure you are adding the application to your page, not your profile.

Click edit page, then “browse more” next to applications, then search for “Twitter” or “Selective Twitter Status“).