How to Auto-Publish Facebook Post on Twitter [Official]
Friday, January 20, 2012
How to use Facebook Twitter update Feature:
Here is a quick guide for all who are looking to update their Twitter status via Facebook. As I mentioned above, only status update which are set to public, will be auto publish into your Twitter account.
To get started go to this link and select the page on which you wish to link Facebook to Twitter. Now, click on Link to Twitter in front of page which you wish to link.
On the next page, you will be prompted to login to your Twitter account if not logged in, else you will be directly asked to authorize the app. Once you have authorize the app, it will again take you back to Facebook.com/Twitter page and you can configure what all updates you wish to share on Twitter from Facebook.
That’s it and now go to your Facebook fan page and update your status with privacy set at public and confirm if same status message is published on Twitter account.
I just confirmed the same using my Facebook page @ShoutHarsh and Twitter account @denharsh.
How a Blogger can take advantage of Facebook-Twitter?
If you have been following ShoutMeLoud Facebook fan page, you would realize, I keep asking questions and update something interesting to increase the engagement. By linking your Fan page and Twitter account, you will be engaging your Twitter users at the same time. Though I suggest, disable certain things like Images, Links, videos, notes, Events and only keep the status updates to be auto published. This will help in decreasing noise and if you are using any other service like feed burner or Socialoomph to auto publish your blog content, you will not see a duplicate Tweet.
Though if you are using Twitter to Facebook auto publish feature, you should be careful while linking accounts, as you might not like to publish the same fan page update on your Facebook profile. You might like to check out: How to publish updates on Facebook & twitter from Google+.