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Update Your Facebook Status Directly From Twitter!

by admin on April 19, 2010

Shelly Lodes's Facebook Profile

Some of our Tweets are not relevant to Facebook and should not be cluttering up our Facebook wall. Many consist of fragmented conversations which are useless to our Facebook friends.

We certainly do not want our Facebook to turn into a Twitter stream look-a-like. But, there are times it would be advantageous to post a link to a new blog post simultaneously to both Facebook & Twitter. Anything to save me time and make my day more productive is my motto!

To start you need to go to Selective Twitter App and enter your Twitter username.

Add your Twitter username as instructed….  and your done.

Now when you are in Twitter and you want to add the same information to Facebook, but don’t want to take the time to log into Facebook, you just add  #fb at the end of any Tweet and it will show up on your Facebook status update. Be patient as there can be a minute or two delay after you post on Twitter.

It also works with Fan Pages… But it will not work if your updates are protected.

Try not to overwhelm your Profile Page or Fan Page with too many updates, be selective.

Do not allow  Twitter to update your Facebook automatically.  If you are currently using the  Twitter application or other app to update your status, be sure to remove or disable it so that it doesn’t keep updating all your tweets.


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No time to spare and your weekly issue of your newsletter is due tomorrow! Here’s a solution….

by Shelly Lodes on January 6, 2010

 

It seems everyone is time crunched these days! Too much to do and not enough time to do it.  That is one reason I love Twitter’s short, sweet and easy format.  I have discovered a few time saving ways to reuse my tweets to reach different people in different spaces.

Re-purposing your tweets from your twitter stream is more than a time saver though.  You  also stand to gain a higher return on visibility by making this  small investment… and is without a doubt, working smarter, not harder.

Here’s how…

At the end of the week, compile all of your tweets that contain information relevant to your newsletter readers into one email.  There will be subscribers on your list who do not follow you on Twitter and this will give them a brief look at what you are up to and all the wonderful resources you are sharing on Twitter.  This creates an excellent incentive to start following you on Twitter because they will not want to miss out on your valuable information.

If they are currently following you and have not put you on one of their specific twitter lists, it’s probably safe to say that they do not read every one of your tweets.  Some tweets are sure to slip by on the fast moving twitter stream so this is a great way to catch them up…

Another upside to this is……

  • Those who chose to follow you are definitely going to be “targeted followers” because they are already subscribed to your list and clearly interested in you and your business.
  • You’ll extend your reach and visibility because these new “targeted followers” you’ve attracted have followers of their own who will potentially read your tweets!

Another tip: You should always include a “follow me on Twitter” button in your emails, ezines or newsletter.   People are short on time so if you make it easy for them to follow you they will be more apt to act immediately.

Make this one small, initial investment today.  Take the time to sit down right now and create a compilation of your tweets from last week and send ‘em out in your newsletter this week!

Who else wants to share some Twitter “re-purposing” ideas?  I’d love to hear them!  Let’s connect …leave a comment  or catch up with me on Twitter!


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