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Because I use Twitter more than Facebook, but stay connected to some old friends via Facebook only, I need a way to connect the two.
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Deep chest freezer modification mentioned in previous post. This really appeals to me – although I would have to hire someone to make the mods for me. :)
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Tips like these to help us save money when we purchase our own home are vital. I love this, and am seriously thinking about the deep freezer mod!
Off the Beaten Plan
plan: to devise or project the realization or achievement of
Browsing Off the Beaten Plan blog archives for the day Tuesday, August 11th, 2009.
I have both a Facebook and a Twitter account, and while it’s very nice to be able to connect to people from my past, Facebook is simply too much for me to keep up with. I agree 100% with Trent from The Simple Dollar, who said in his most recent Reader Mailbag:
I usually find Facebook to be too noisy. With the other services, it’s pretty easy for me to filter out stuff I don’t want to read. With Facebook, it’s a lot harder – I tend to have to dig around a lot to see interesting things.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
But the fact remains that there are family members and folks I used to know that don’t use Twitter (or I haven’t found them yet), and I know they’d like to be updated on what happens with DH and I, and so I am in search of a way to send my Twitter posts to Facebook.
This morning I (very briefly) tried the Twitter Application to send my Twitter posts directly to Facebook. I must say, I took an immediate dislike to it, although not through any fault of the application itself. It brought my posts over, after I gave it access, and even gave me one page where all my Twitter stuff was. Since I’m not looking to have all my Twitter stuff in one place on Facebook, but rather simply to have my updates posted on my wall for my friends to read, this was unnecessary for me.
There’s another Facebook application called the Selective Twitter Status Application, which also might be a good fit for me. Instead of blasting all my (sometimes pointless) tweets, it will just add the ones I append with the #fb hashtag. This isn’t a bad idea, but once again, at heart, I’m not a Facebook user, I’m a Twitter user. I don’t want to install another application to my Facebook page.
The optimal situation for me would be if Iconfactory offered Twitterific for the PC, and then if Twitterific would also feed updates to Facebook. Although I would love to be a Mac user, my pocketbook simply cannot afford it right now. I do, however, have an iTouch, and I really enjoy the Twitterific App for posting and reading updates.
From the wonderful Mashable article Twitter to Facebook: 5 Ways to Post to Both, only one other option appeals to me, and it’s the one I’m going to try. Tweetdeck is a Twitter Client, and I have several friends who use and enjoy this. There is even an iPhone/iTouch App, so I may try it there, depending on my success on the PC. I will be sure to report my satisfaction (or dissatisfaction, as the case may be) on Twitter, so be sure to follow me there!