My earlier post detailed my rather brief search in finding a suitable method of integrating twitter with facebook.

So here’s a tutorial on my final solution.

Note: Most online searches result in the default Twitter App for Facebook. It does not allow you any control over what gets from twitter to facebook – every twit is automatically posted to your facebook status, save for @replies.

EDIT: just tried it, and this does not work if your twitter feed is protected. thanks for the comment twittering from mobile.

EDIT: So far, this solution seems to update at instantaneously, or at least near-instantaneously for me. Twitter’s app (i.e. the original, cumbersome one) updates via a half-hour refresh, so that’s another point loss then.

Step 1:

Click this link to the application’s main page.

Step 2:

Register and add the application by entering your twitter username in the corresponding field on the application page.

It is that simple. There is only one step required.

Step 3:

Follow the on screen instructions. Sign in if need be.

NO ADDITIONAL STEPS ARE REQUIRED –> :D

You should end up at your applications page:

Step 4 (TO POST):

To update your facebook status from twitter,

Sign in to twitter, your mobile twitter application, or whatever method you have been using.

Type a regular tweet.

Add a #fb to the end of your twitter tweet, as such:

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog #fb

And voila. Your facebook status will be your last tweet with the #fb tag. It should display: “YOUR NAME”the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

*KEEP A SPACE before the #fb

Step 5 (Removing Application)

To remove either application, click on http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php to access your facebook applications page and proceed from there.

NOTE

Delete or disable all other twitter to facebook applications in order to ensure they do not end up posting unwanted tweets, thereby causing a huge fireball of death.

Benefits of the application:

My iPhone essentially becomes a facebook status remote of sorts.

Issues:

Given the way facebook status messages are phrased (Your Name is …), updating from twitter becomes slightly awkward. You could either tweet normally, but with your fb statuses leaving out the ‘is’ bit, or start your tweets with ‘is’ (at least the ones you use for your fb status messages) in order to keep your facebook looking proper.

It was worse with the default application I was using initially, since everything went directly to facebook.

Here’s the link again:

Selective Twitter App for Facebook

Hope you found it useful. Cheers :)