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
Christine@GrowMyCo.com
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