Ever wonder how you can tweet and see your Facebook automatically updated with the same information. This tutorial takes you to the steps of how to enable your Facebook to get your tweets of its own accord.

1. How to Sync Twitter with
How to Sync Twitter with Facebook.
Amanda Hardin
Research/Instruction Specialist
and
Haiwang
Haiwang Yuan
Special Assistant to the Dean for Web & Emerging Technologies
Western Kentucky University
May 6, 2009
May 6, 2009

2. Ever wonder how you can tweet and see your
Facebook automatically updated with the same info?
automatically updated with the same info?

3. There’re Only a Few Steps to Follow
There’re Only a Few Steps to Follow
Step 1: Join
o Create a free
account on
Facebook.
o Create a free
account on Twitter.
o Of course you don’t
have to if you’ve
already have them.

4. Step 2: Search the Application
Step 2: Search the Application
o Twitter created its
own application in
Facebook to help
the two social
networking
programs interact.
o To find the
application, search
the term using the
keywords “Twitter
see what you and
your friends are up
to” in the upper
right of your
Facebook profile.

5. Step 3: Add the Application
o This is what your
Twitter search
page should look
like under the
“Applications” tab.
o Make sure it’s the
one with this
square icon.
o Click on the
“Twitter ” link to
add this Twitter
application to your
Facebook.

6. Step 4: Say Yes to Adding the Application
Step 4: Say Yes to Adding the Application
o Then select the
“Allow” button
when this page
comes up.

7. Step 5: Login to Twitter to Set Up the Application
Step 5: Login to Twitter to Set Up the Application
o When this page
appears, enter
your Twitter
username and
password to set up
the application.

8. Step 6: Give Twitter Permission to Update Your
Step 6: Give Twitter Permission to Update Your Facebook
o Click on the “Allow
Twitter to Update
Your Facebook Status”
button at the top of
the page.

9. Last Step: Allow Updates from Twitter
Last Step: Allow Updates from Twitter
o On this next page
that seems a
redundant step,
select the blue
“Allow Status
Updates” button.
o This completes the
process of having
your tweets
automatically
updated on your
Facebook

10. A Little Tip
o When your
Facebook gets
your Twitter feed,
it will be marked
by this text link
“via Twitter.”

11. Final Words
o After you add the
application, it will allow
your Facebook status
updates to be pulled from
your Twitter feed.
o The Twitter application
provides all the basic
updates for contacts you
are following.
o You can tweet in Your
Facebook by following the
“Go to this Application”
link.