Wild Apricot reader Rachel left a comment on our post about how to publish your Facebook Page to Twitter, asking: “Is there an application out there to update a Facebook Fan Page’s status from Twitter?” The short answer is, yes, there are several ways you can do this.
Although there’s an official Twitter application
for Facebook, so far it only updates personal Profiles. But, fortunately, there
are other ways to post your tweets to any Facebook Page that you administer, instead of posting it as an update on your personal Profile.
Here are three different tools that will do the job:
1. Selective Twitter Application
Selective Twitter
now allows you to update your Facebook Page as well as your Profile —
and what I really like about this application is that, once it’s
installed, you can choose which content you want to cross-post to
Facebook simply by adding the hashag #fb to the end of a tweet.
2. RSS to Facebook Fan Page
Grab the RSS feed for your Twitter account — go to your profile page
on Twitter.com and you’ll find a link at the bottom of the sidebar —
then use an application like Social RSS to bring your Twitter feed into Facebook.
Alternatively, you can import the RSS into your Facebook Notes
application, instead. Do be aware that that are limits on how
frequently you can update Notes, however, and you can only import one RSS into it. So the Notes option may not be suitable for this purpose if you'd rather use it to import your blog RSS, or if you tend to be
extremely chatty on Twitter!
3. All-in-One Social Updates
Ping.fm is a free
third-party service that currently supports more than 40 different
social networking sites, and you can send the same update to all of
your social networks at once, in one step, using mobile, instant
messaging, email, or website applications. It lets you post text
updates or images, at the moment, and they’re working on adding video
updates as well.
And yes, Ping.fm supports Facebook Pages.
When you’re adding social networks to your Ping.fm account, you’ll find
a link for Facebook Pages, right after the ordinary (personal)
Facebook, on the list of social networks. For detailed instructions and
troubleshooting, check out the related entries in Ping.fm’s Help and Information Wiki.
Bonus: Another new Facebook social networking application!
SocialToo Status really belongs in the Facebook-to-Twitter category, but I’ll toss it in here anyway because it’s brand new last week.
Billed as “your central hub for posting to Facebook and Twitter” it is
well worth a mention, while we’re talking about cross-posting between
services:
Adding this app gives you SocialToo Status, a way for you to
update Twitter and any Facebook Page you administer from your Facebook
Profile home page. In addition, you get a vanity URL and statistics to
track that all via one app!
This is one of the great things about Web 2.0, isn’t it? With so
many independent developers and third-party services are working on new
ways to connect and enhance existing social media sites and networks,
you can usually find a number of different ways to accomplish just
about any task. Then, it’s just a matter of picking the method that
works best for you.
Have you found another good way to connect a Twitter account to a Facebook Fan Page?
If so, please let us know about it in the comments!