If you've signed up for and built a following on multiple social-media
websites, you already may have traded the novelty of connecting with
others for the time-consuming routine of cross posting your thoughts to
each site individually. Save your energy and effort by using built-in
and third-party shortcut services that turn multiple steps into one-step
convenience. With these time-savers, you can create a single post and
share it efficiently among more than one of your social profiles.
Instructions
All Tweets to Facebook
Post your tweets to Facebook directly through Twitter
without a third-party application, service or website. In September
2011, Twitter launched support for cross posting to Facebook.
Click on the "Profile" icon -- a head-and-shoulders human
silhouette -- in the bar at the top of the Twitter screen. Choose
"Settings" from the drop-down menu that opens
Click on the "Connect to Facebook" button when it appears.
Log in to your Facebook account when you're prompted, if you aren't
already connected. When the Facebook "Request for Permission" window
opens, click on the "Allow" button.
Open the application settings in Facebook. Select Twitter
from the list of options, then set the "App Privacy" drop-down menu to
"Friends."
Selective Tweets to Facebook
Use the Facebook Selective Tweets app to share only those
tweets you want your Facebook friends to see. Go to the Facebook apps
page for Selective Tweets and sign up your profile for the app. You can
enter "Selective Tweets" in the search box at the top of any Facebook
page to find the app's sign-up page.
Enter your Twitter username in the box on the "Your Profile"
tab on the Selective Twitter page and click on the "Save" button. This
establishes the link to Twitter from Facebook.
Compose your tweets using your favorite Twitter interface --
mobile or on the Web. End each tweet you want to share on Facebook with
the hashtag "#fb." Only those tweets with the hashtag cross over to
your Facebook profile.
HootSuite
Log in to your HootSuite account and open your HootSuite
Settings. Click on the "Social Networks" item and choose "Add Social
Network."
Select from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare,
WordPress and Myspace. Authorize each social network you want to
include, enabling each to accept access from HootSuite.
Click on the Launch Bar at the top left corner of the
HootSuite interface to open the HootSuite Launch Menu. Type a message
into the Compose field, pick the sites to which you want to send it and
click on the "Send Now" button.
Click on the floppy-disk-shaped "Save" icon to save your
message as a draft so you can review and send it later. Click on the
calendar-shaped "Schedule a Status Update" icon to set a date and time
for HootSuite to send your message.
Tips & Warnings
When you combine
Twitter with Facebook through Twitter's native support for Facebook,
only your tweets cross over, not retweets -- unless you create them
completely manually -- or replies, otherwise known as mentions.
If you connect
Twitter to Facebook through Twitter, you can't use Selective Tweets. The
converse also is true. Use one approach at a time or your tweets won't
appear on Facebook.
Limit your message length on HootSuite to avoid exceeding Twitter's 140-character maximum.
Think
carefully about what you cross post. Some message types and content
don't lend themselves equally well to all social media services.
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