Now we all know how to link our FB profile pages to our Twitter accounts and vice versa. There are built-in apps for FB and Twitter that allow us to do this which does make life easier. I found Tweetdeck to be a life saver when it came to publishing my company tweets to the company profile page on FB. But the thing is, most of the above apps are for ‘profile’ pages !
I’ve spent the last few days trying various methods of integrating my tweets to my Facebook fan page but it’s been a futile effort ! The most I managed was to use Involver or Selective Tweets to publish to my FB Fan page however the drawback was that :
- Tweets were also getting published to my personal profile
- I had to use specific #fb hash tags which can be a pain to do
- I had to manually ‘publish’ the Tweets from the Tweets tab on the fan page
Today– I found the perfect solution thanks to my Twitter friend @spinsterlicious – who suggested that I use ‘HootSuite’. Now seriously – how is it that this never once came up in any of the searches ! (and hence the reason for this post)
5 Steps To Posting Tweets to FB Fan Page
1. Go to HootSuite.com
2. Register and activate an account
3. Add a Social Network
a) Your Twitter profile
b) Your Facebook account
- note at this point it will show your FB profile page and ask you to ‘allow’ access and permissions to Hootsuite
- click ‘allow’
- Log onto your FB account from the pop-up browser
4. Once you see your FB account listed; you will also see all the ‘pages’ you subscribe to and also those that you are an ‘admin’ of.
- I’ve logged onto my company FB profile and can see the ‘page’ that I am admin off as shown below.
- Select the FB page that you want to link your tweets to by clicking the ‘+’ sign; which will then open as a new tab within the HootSuite application
- Start posting and scheduling tweets that you want to share on your FB Blog Page without worrying about all your personal tweets going on to your profile or the fan page !
5. Add a Stream.
- Basically you will see a few tabs in the window which will show your Twitter profile, FB profile and FB fan page
- Adding a stream means connecting your FB fan page with your Twitter profile
- Select your Twitter Profile and the ‘type of stream’ you want i.e. all the tweets; or just the @mentions or only what you send out (I selected only ‘sent tweets’ for my company account)
And voila ! you are done ! I couldn’t believe how simple it was to publish tweets to just on my FB fan page ! All the other instructions I had seen were way too complex !
Have you got any other ways to publish your tweets directly to your FB fan pages ? Have you used HootSuite before ? If you did try out these instructions, do let me know your feedback :)
minigadgets1000 1p · 708 weeks ago
dazediva 75p · 707 weeks ago
Please do share if you know how :) thanks
Bryan · 707 weeks ago
dazediva 75p · 707 weeks ago
I checked it out again - and it should work without any glitches if you have added the 'stream' on the Hootsuite page. It may take a few minutes to connect / show up on your FB fan page - but it definitely does.
Hope it helps - and if you have any trouble feel free to hit me up on Twitter @dazediva 'cos I made this guide myself as there were no instructions online on how to do this.
stewartbloor 1p · 706 weeks ago
alexmetcalfe 1p · 705 weeks ago
Please, if you don't mind could you clarify a few things... 1) In part 5 when you say "Adding a stream means connecting your FB fan page with your Twitter profile"... I may be wrong but it sounds like by doing so you can write a tweet and it will be published on you FB fan page as from twitter... but all it seems to do is to create a window where you see your tweets, like a 'feed' these tweets don't then appear on the FB fan page.
2) Using the 'Compose Message' bar it is possible to post to both twitter and facebook at the same time..which admittedly is cool but it is not what your guide infers (I mean this in the most non confrontational way as possible)
I thought you were describing a way to connect the facebook fanpage up to your twitter account so when you post on twitter direct, or through hootsuite as twitter, that the tweet would then be posted on the FB Fanpage as being from your twitter account...
What Hootsuite appears to be is a way of broadcasting to your various social media pages from one point.
If I have got this wrong please, please let me know as it has taken me all day to get this far!
dazediva 75p · 700 weeks ago
Really sorry for the late response; I've been busy with my clients' weddings and haven't had a chance to reply to all the comments on the blog.
So basically - whilst this guide I have created is correct; there seems to be a minor glitch somewhere which wasn't there when I made this.
I've just noticed that FB is now separating the 'tweets' to the 'posts' and on the Fan Page you can see it in separate tabs. Which is where you (and I) are at now.
The way to fix this is to 'tweet & post' via the new tab you have created on HootSuite which is for your FanPage ... it's a bit of extra work - but you can select multiple profiles from Hootsuite when tweeting / putting up a post.
Jeez now I feel silly about this post =( I swear it was working fine before ! Damn FB for their constant changes ! LOL
Vikram Gulati · 699 weeks ago