Comments on: Why I’m disconnecting Twitter from Facebook

By: beenther

beenther — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:56:55 +0000

alli want to do is get rid of this.i do not have cellphone.many probs since accidently putting twitter on.now it will not let me disconnect per instructions.help

By: umdivx

umdivx — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:38:59 +0000

There is Selective twitter for facebook, so when you do your twitter msg and then add #fb at the end when using the selective twitter app, that is the only way it’ll send a status update to facebook.

So if you then wanted to do a status update with twitter, and have it also sent to facebook that is the easiest way I have found and still retain your greek cred between the two sites.

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:21:13 +0000

Use Selective Twitter, which only relays to FB if you tag the Tweet with #FB.

By: mt

mt — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:39:13 +0000

umm. duh!
YEs, this is quite obviously a problem that anyone who links the two services has faced.
The facebook twitter app, switchabit and other such services are excellent tohugh!

By: mark

mark — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:42:56 +0000

My reason for keeping them separate is, I fly my geek flag on twitter.. and normal social life on facebook:)

By: Ben Drawbaugh

Ben Drawbaugh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:56:14 +0000

For the most part I agree, RT should not be reposted on Facebook. I also catch myself not tweeting something because I don’t want it on facebook or just going and deleting it after the fact. The other thing I do is to disable the connection during trade shows etc when I know I’ll be tweeting alot.

I see some people use the #FB tab, which makes it post on facebook, but I’m not sure which app they use for this.

By: Jeremy Toeman

Jeremy Toeman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:44:00 +0000

@Brent – yes, my facebook friends are at least 2/3 people I know outside of technology, many of whom are not interested in Twitter (yup, still).

@James – based on the variety of well-sourced articles, there just aren’t that many people who use twitter for purely personal reasons with purely personal groups…

By: James Geluso

James Geluso — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:29:30 +0000

“Few-to-none of a twitterer’s followers are real-world friends.”

Ah, but really? There is a disconnect, I think, between people who use Twitter professionally, following thousands, and people who use it personally. The main difference, I think, is that professionals are networking and following it on the Web or on other computer applications; lots of people, though, use Twitter on their phones. I follow 28 people, and maybe 10 of them I have on my phone. If someone puts their Twitters on their Facebook, I shut them off my phone feed; why do I need to see their statements twice, one of which involves pulling out my phone.