I have a couple hundred Facebook friends and maybe a dozen of them are on Twitter. That means that most of my Facebook friends would probably be confused by most of my Twitter posts. So I don't auto-feed them to my Facebook status. But many people do. I think that's a bad idea.
Facebook has an application that automatically pulls most of your Twitter posts and updates your Facebook status with them. The only ones it doesn't post are @Replies and DMs. It even pulls RTs. Now considering that a lot of Twitter posts are clips of mini conversations with other tweeps, when you post them to Facebook, your Facebook friends are only seeing one side of a conversation. That's just confusing.
Also, if you're like most Twitter users, you are in and out of the utility throughout the day, and you likely post multiple times within a short period of time. If all of these are posted to Facebook, that fills up your friends Facebook homepage stream with mostly your own status updates. I'm guessing that your friends might consider that a bit pompous, as they are probably interested in what you're doing, but also interested in what others are doing. If you fill up all their space, they're not getting equal information about other friends.
There is a happy medium however. People who use TweetDeck have the option of checking a box to post select tweets to their Facebook status. This is the best of both worlds. It spares you of the extra effort of duplicate posting across two platforms, and it saves your Facebook friends the irritation of reading every Tweet.
by: Christine Pilch
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