[Web4lib] Twitter to Facebook

[Heller, Margaret]

I would recommend using a desktop application to post to both at once, or just using the web interface for both Twitter and Facebook to post the same content. There are lots of applications you can use, but in my opinion tweets in Facebook never look as good as content posted directly into Facebook. You could use an application such as RSS Graffiti to customize how posts appear in Facebook (see their anatomy of a post here: http://rssgraffiti.pbworks.com/w/page/27212863/Anatomy-of-a-Facebook-Post). 

The thing about posting on Facebook in the web application is that it ensures that someone is looking at the page on a regular basis and responding to comments or fixing outdated info. Again, there are ways to replicate this in a desktop application, but for most people it's probably easier to just use Facebook.

Margaret Heller
Web Services Librarian
Rebecca Crown Library
Dominican University
708-524-6883


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Coral Sheldon-Hess
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 6:12 PM
To: HAZEL Margaret E
Cc: web4lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Twitter to Facebook

You can update both Facebook and Twitter from TweetDeck and several
other desktop applications, if you want to go that route. But I'm
assuming you wanted to use the web interface to Twitter, or some kind
of Twitter-only desktop interface. If that's the case, my
recommendation is Selective Twitter. It's nice to use if you don't
want all of your tweets (for instance retweets and @ replies) to go to
Facebook; you tag any tweet you want to go to both places with "#fb,"
and they'll forward on to Facebook (without the #fb visible in that
interface).

http://apps.facebook.com/selectivetwitter/

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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, HAZEL Margaret E
<Margaret.E.Hazel at ci.eugene.or.us> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> What do you all recommend as far as what to use to update your library Facebook page with your library tweets?  The person who will be doing this here will be doing it from their desktop PC, and is not a huge tech user, but is reasonably comfortable with picking things up.  We do want the tweets to populate the page wall, not a separate twitter tab on Facebook, which I've seen some pages do with FBML, I believe.
>
> Thanks for sharing your experience.
>
> -Margaret
>
> Margaret Hazel
> Virtual Branch & Innovative Tech Manager
> Eugene Public Library
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