How to link Twitter to Facebook - A Twitter Tutorial
Want to link your Twitter account to Facebook so that your status updates sync? Easy, here’s how:
Step 1: Search for “Twitter” in Facebook’s search field.
Step 2: The first result should be the one you are looking for. It is the application “Twitter.” Click “view application”
Step 3: Add the Twitter Facebook Application.
Step 4: Choose your settings and add the Twitter Facebook Application to your profile.
Step 5: Enter your Twitter login information.
Step 6: Choose to have Twitter update your Facebook status.
Step 7: Allow and Authorize Access for Twitter to Facebook.
Step 8: That’s it! Now every time you update your Twitter, your Facebook status will update automatically.
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April 4th, 2008 at 11:50 am
I really like this since T-Mobile isn’t supported on Facebook, the only thing I don’t like is everytime I update it says that I’m “twittering.”
April 4th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Some people (like me) are having trouble getting the Twitter app to install / work properly.
Here’s another way to keep Facebook and Twitter in synch. Post to Facebook and use the Twitterbook script to send your status to Twitter.
http://www.designmeme.com/2008/04/03/twitterbook-2/
Stuart
April 4th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Unfortunately, since I tweet kind of often, everybody on facebook was getting my twitter on their news feed or something and people started telling me it was annoying. I had to take it down. (And they said this even when I had the newsfeed box unchecked!) Obviously, they could have set their facebook to not show updates from me, but these are the kind of people who don’t understand the internet and don’t know what twitter is. They send FB applications out like crazy, which I feel like is worse.
@alanataylor
April 5th, 2008 at 2:48 am
I’m all about this Twitter app. I’m not big on many Facebook apps since they started spreading like some cracked out wildfire a while back, but this one is clean and functional. Plus, it combines two social networking sites in a good way. Good post.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Worked perfectly! Thanks!
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April 30th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
@Alana Taylor I discovered that a tweet that starts with a reply via @ does not show up as a status on Facebook. Using this hack, I’ve been able to not over post to my Facebook status. I also worry that my non techie friends will get annoyed with my high Twitter use. Also, I’m assuming that the @ stops my tweets from showing up on other peoples news feeds, since they are not showing up on my status update feed.
August 11th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Thanks for this. Exactly what I was looking for. And its so easy
September 21st, 2008 at 4:58 am
thx a lot for this
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
@alanataylor
lol, i sense some sort of resentment vs facebook mainstream users..
look at the good side… at least “something” good must come out of a huge db of data with an api, right ???
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:57 am
did you mean “sync” or just update in facebook ?
September 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Looks like the process has changed a bit since the “new” Facebook…
October 8th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
hi, this sounds great for personal facebook pages, however I am trying to add this to my facebook organization page. Is this possible??
October 15th, 2008 at 6:13 am
I am a german twitter, and wait for facebook (or twitter !) use SMS in europe,
and only then will link everything
October 15th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Thanks for this! I’ve stumbled it and posted a link to it on one of my blogs at solopreneurs.blogspot.com You rock!
October 31st, 2008 at 10:33 am
Thanks! I couldn’t figure out how to undo linking to twitter and this helped git r’done!
November 5th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Fabulous! Thanks for getting me organized!!
November 20th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Great app, will save me lots of time having to update on facebook, or rather it’ll mean that I don’t have to remember to update facebook anymore
November 20th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
How do I undo this? I’ve decided it wasn’t such a great idea for me…
November 21st, 2008 at 2:05 am
[Add Application] does not exist any more
November 28th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I tried this, seems straightfoward, didn’t work.
There are a lot of comments on the Twitter Facebook app about it not working
December 20th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Hey, thanks very much for this step-by-step. Super helpful.
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
its work for me - thank’s
January 25th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Thank you. arigatou.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
How do you get around the problem where Twitter generally expects complete sentences, while Facebook wants you to complete the sentence “Yourname is …”? Whatever you type will look weird either on Facebook or on Twitter…
February 11th, 2009 at 8:39 am
@Alana,
how about try this Selective Twitter App for Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/selectivetwitter/
all you need is to append your messages with a #fb.
had a simple blog post on this as well: http://cogito.faii.net/twitter-to-facebook/
cheers
February 14th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Thank you for that … i have added Twitter to Facebook.
Now to test it!
February 14th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Worked like a dream thanks for posting.Will have to see how it progresses in coming weeks Iam also very new on Facebook so still finding my way though have been online marketing for over 11 years so I don,t really finr it that confusing just need to learn how to optimise Twitter and Facebook for business.
February 19th, 2009 at 11:23 am
@faii is there something like that for Facebook photo-links to Twitter as well? Add ‘#’ to your photo’s description, and get a Twitter update with link to your Facebook photopage? Very much the way autopostr.com does that for your Flickr photos.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:42 am
Thanks for posting! Big help for a Twitter newbie.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Great article. Thanks.
February 26th, 2009 at 3:04 am
I would like it if my facebook posts could sync with twitter, too. Maybe I need to just start using this and only post to one place: twitter.
February 28th, 2009 at 12:54 am
Your instructions were super simple to follow. I’m 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.
March 1st, 2009 at 3:12 pm
It works OK and it is certainly something useful.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
was the twitter application in facebook written by twitter or by some other third party developer?
March 13th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Thank you!
March 21st, 2009 at 9:14 am
Many thanks. Clever bit of marketing as well!
March 27th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
But how can I update Twitter from Facebook, if I want to do that?
March 28th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Awesome!!!!! Thank you
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:12 pm
its work for me - thank’s
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Thank you - this is exactly what I was looking for!
April 6th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Despite the fact that this could be useful for occasional use, I really urge all of you to use this feature with care consideration. Cross-posting can be good if the content is appropriate ‘accross’ all services. But if you use this blindly, it’s just going to annoy your followers/friends, at best.
Please don’t abuse it.
April 8th, 2009 at 2:41 am
Worked perfectly for me. Many thanks for the clear post.
April 10th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Thanks! Now only if you included a tutorial to link facebook to mobile. The mobile2twitter was smooth, but facebook is a little bit complicated.
-Stacy W
Boston, MA (USA)
April 12th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Let’s see… I’ve got a PHP script that can send to Twitter… if I then add #fb at the end, then it looks like I could post from a PHP script directly to Twitter and that would be picked up on Facebook with this app… Very interesting!
April 14th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Thanks for the info. I’ve already twithis in twitter.
Cheers!
April 21st, 2009 at 9:59 pm
This was helpful thank you. Although it was helpful I fine it hard to trust people that leave out cost? Is there a cost or not?
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Thank you for this - it’s great info and got me to where I needed to be on Fbook via the Search, but Fbook has since updated the process and you could benefit from updating your page - many people still need the info and may not be able to follow it themselves. Good luck to you! JJ
May 6th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Thank you!
May 6th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
You can also use Glue for this and more functionality. Glue saves time and enables you to easily post content once across all your sites and social networks. Use a browser or mobile phone to publish from anywhere. www.gluenow.com
May 12th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I would like the app to update my personal facebook page and my facebook fan page. How can I do that?
Thanks,
-Frank
May 18th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Works nicely for me. Thanks.
May 19th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Hi,
I have installed the twitter application on facebook but how do I know it really works?
When I go to my twitter page and click on my updates, I only see the ones that I posted directly to Twitter and not the ones from facebook. And how does twitter handle updates on fb that are longer than 140 characters? Any ideas?
Robin
May 21st, 2009 at 4:19 pm
But is there a way to do it the other way around? I use my facebook more than my twitter, so I would rather update my facebook status and have it post to twitter than to update my twitter and have it post to facebook. Any ideas on this?
May 26th, 2009 at 12:35 am
Thanks for this tip.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:32 am
but what if i dont want my facebook status to updated, but just like a little twit window on my profile?
my twitter and my facebook r 2 different personalities…
May 27th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
hi, good piece. useful apps. however, wires are getting crossed between several accounts that i admin, and tweets posting to the wrong facebook account etc. editing the settings isn’t working, so i wonder… is there a way to uninstall these apps?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
hi, i think this is fabulous and it worked perfectly. BUT, i use facebook much more. i’m looking for something that will update FROM my facebook status TO my twitter. is this possible and how can i do it? did i miss the instructions?
thanks so much!
June 6th, 2009 at 3:44 am
help me.i can’t open twiiter application on my facebook. i’ve tried to click twitter application on my facebook, but it can’t opened. hows the solution bro? thanks for your answer. send to my email.
June 7th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
For some reason at step 3 it says Go to application instead of Add Application. Another option underneath the Go to application button says add to my page. When I click on that there is a small popup window which says; select which page you want to add Twitter to. But there are no pages I can choose from.
What am I doing wrong?
June 8th, 2009 at 7:39 am
This does not work for me on Firefox and Opera browsers. Add to my page gives “No results” and go to application gives empty page on Facebook.
June 10th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Thank you so much for this wonderful post. It is really very helpful. I will be following you on twitter.
June 20th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
AJ,
Love your website and the tips you have. I posted a link to this post on my website because I have a lot of people ask me how to do this. I linked my Facebook and Twitter about a year ago and didn’t remember the steps. I am now following you on twitter.
June 20th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
There is also an app on Facebook called Selective Twitter Status that allows you to post Tweets tagged with #fb, so your Facebook friends don’t get too burned out from your tweets:
http://bit.ly/7H2Jd
June 25th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Don’t know what the issue is, but I constantly get errors with the app. Thanks for sharing the how-to though.
Regards
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:56 am
The app appears to be broken or compromised in some way at the current time. TechCrunch has the scoop on it -
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/twitters-popular-facebook-app-has-been-broken-or-exploited-for-days/
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Thanks! this tip really helped bug time. thanks agian
July 7th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
I just want a simple link from my facebook fan page to my twitter account. Just like this fan page has: http://www.facebook.com/PureYogaOfficial. I’m having trouble figuring out how to do that because all of the apps that I’m finding are designed to add status updates or integrate twitter in other ways which is more than I want.
Do you know how to do this?
Thanks!
July 21st, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Does anyone know how to send tweets to a Facebook organizational page, instead of to a user page? I can’t find anything about hwo to do this. Thanks!
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 am
Wondering how to get my friends in facebook follow me in twitter…
July 26th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Thanks for this - finally worked it out. nice and simple, don’t need to be a web developer to crack it!
July 27th, 2009 at 7:07 am
thanx man
July 27th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Wonderful!! I was struggling until I found your tutorial
July 27th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Hi there, I’d like to link our company Twitter account to our Facebook business page, preferably through a badge. I have been fiddling around for ages with this and I can’t seem to figure it out. Can you help?
July 28th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
If you are using Pages you can use Glue and it’s RSS to post to Twitter and to your user profile and any of your Pages. You just import the RSS feed into face book for both your profile and Pages. Simple!
It works really well. Check it out.
GlueNow.com
July 29th, 2009 at 4:42 am
Search for “selective twittter” in facebook and then add the application to your page. I’m just testing it - the annoying thing is that you have you put a #fb tag on the end of the tweets you want to go to that page.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Get lost at stage 2
I can do stage 1 - search for “twitter” and in the pages of results nothing like the image in stage 2 notes above appears …..
I just want my twitter account to post to my facebook page …. any ideas???
August 11th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Same problem as corris!
Facebook has changed so much that the pages look really different!
…Any Ideas?
August 12th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Thanks for this nicely written article. Saves me time shuffling between the two. How about the other way around updating twitter through FB? Is there a way? Thanks again. And I’ll be following you on twitter.
August 18th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
How can I do from the step 4????
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Hiya AJ and everyone else
Right not sure what I’ve done wrong went through and did everything you said, then updated twitter and nothing appeared on my facebook, after i followed instructions I was left with a page on facebook and a box saying what are you doing, url said http://apps.new.facebook.com/twitter/timeline so I posted a test message in there but that didn’t appear on facebook or twitter either!! so I’m confused any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Angel
August 26th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Rad…love it! How come I didn’t find that earlier? Thanks, man!
August 28th, 2009 at 3:12 am
cool, just set it up. thx
August 29th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
How to link Twitter to Facebook…
A tutorial showing you how to link your Twitter status to your Facebook status. It is quick and easy, I promise!…
August 31st, 2009 at 10:25 pm
My Facebook and Twitter have finally synchronized. Thanks!
August 31st, 2009 at 10:26 pm
How can I do from the step 4????
You need to Add the Twitter Facebook Application. Have you done so?
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Quite a straightforward article. What about “selective twitter” in fb?
How would you link linkedin, facebook and twitter?
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:13 pm
is there another way to connect the two, but the other way around? like instead of my twitter updating my facebook, facebook updates twitter??
September 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Hi, this article is very useful - I have a question. How do you tell facebook that you have changed your twitter password - I have searched high and low and can not find the way.
My twitter http://twitter.com/Peter_Lawless password was changed after the DOS attack in August and after one month finally got it back - now I want to be able to update my facebook with the feeds
Thanks in advance, Peter
September 17th, 2009 at 8:18 am
I want facebook to update my twitter status not the other way around! is there anything I can do?
September 18th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for and works perfectly!
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:24 am
Hi AJ,
I’ve got 3 twitter accounts and a few different FB Pages (for various businesses). Do you know how to link specific twitter accounts to FB pages? When I tried, it puts my personal profile on twitter to the different FB pages.
Thanks,
Jodi
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Hi Peter: I don’t seem to get the same view and wondering if you can assist, I have tried but don’t get the option to add application?? I am doing something wrong.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
thanks mate worked like a charm. im off to go tweet bout this app
September 26th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
hey thanks alot!! i have finally get them connected :).. thank you bunch!!!
September 28th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
update this! i have tried to install it again and i only go until step 3. you will no longer be ask like in step 4 & 7
September 28th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Hey- thanks so much for the helpful tips! I recently switched to ubertwitter from twitterberry, but I noticed that even though I linked twitter with facebook, it takes several hours for the updates to link.
Have you encountered this problem before? Do you have any suggestions on ways that I can update the tweet to fb righ away?
Thanks so much!
September 29th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Thank you for the tips indeed. One precision: if you own several pages, it is possible to select to which page you want Twitter updates to be published (your own profile, your page x, y or z). This step is just after Twitter login.
September 30th, 2009 at 4:26 am
This is great and helpful blog posting! Thanks
September 30th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Thanks! Can you please tell me if it is possible to do this the other way around? I.e update Twitter from FB status?
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
I have the same question as some of the others:
I just want my business twitter account to post to my facebook page …. any ideas???
October 6th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
thanks, very useful
October 7th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Thanks - it seemed to take even fewer steps - once I clicked on the application I got a message asking if I wanted Twitter to update Facebook so I clicked on ‘Yes’ and Hey Presto! twas done.
Swift and painless as they say!
:0)
October 7th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
PS I re-tweeted too.. I found you after a Google search on this topic, because a friend told me this was possible but didn’t know how - so I spread the word… Thanks again!
October 16th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
If you update your twitter it’s linked to your facebook but if you update your facebook it doesn’t link to your twitter…..weird.