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« Twitter Updates for 2009-06-14 | Main | Finding a good plugin solution for posting to Facebook »
Friday
Jun122009

LenFlack.com » WordPress and Selective Twitter Status for Facebook

I found an excellent blog post that was identical to my situation with regard to using Selective Twitter application for selectively choosing which tweets are sent to Facebook. As I posted earlier, I had issues with not being able to send blog post notifications to Facebook after making the change. I tried a number of new plugins and nothing seemed to work quite right. The following post nailed the solution for me - not quite perfect but as close as I could hope to get. Thanks Len Flack!
A month or two back, I changed how Facebook imports my tweets. I tweet quite often, so I didn’t want it to automatically use every tweet as a status update. To solve this, I began using Selective Twitter Status. This allows me to manually choose which tweets are posted to Facebook by appending the hashtag “#fb” to the tweets I’d like posted.

This inadvertently caused the tweets that were automatically generated by my blog posts to cease being sent to Facebook. Doh I usually generate a fair amount of traffic from my Facebook friends seeing a blog post in my status updates, so this morning I decided I wanted to fix this somehow. Here is the really simple solution I came up with, using Twitter Tools 1.6:

via LenFlack.com » WordPress and Selective Twitter Status for Facebook.

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