How to Link Twitter to Facebook

One of the biggest revolutions on the Internet can be attributed to social networking sites like Facebook and micro blogging sites like Twitter. These sites have made a deep impact not only on the Internet, but also on social life. People are getting increasingly addicted to live the virtual lifestyle. They have changed the way information travels within social circles and the way people interact. With more than 500 million users, the world exists on Facebook currently. Twitter has given a new dimension to the idea of micro blogging, which has revolutionized how thoughts travel on the Internet and impact the real world. Managing your Facebook and Twitter accounts can be a big hassle. Keeping track of activities on both can be cumbersome. However, if you learn how to link Twitter with Facebook, using both the accounts is simpler! You can update Twitter and Facebook status at the same time.

People keep asking me about how to add Twitter to Facebook. Personally, I use Twitter, as well as Facebook. I have followers on both sites and after going through the exasperating routine of updating both on both sites, I decided to find a way of linking Twitter to Facebook. The results of my research are presented in the following lines.

How to Link Twitter to Facebook Easily?

I primarily use Facebook and so I first thought of looking for a way in which you could link Facebook with Twitter. I was pretty sure that there must be some application, which could do this for me. So, here is a simple guide about the same.

There is a special Facebook application that lets you link Twitter to Facebook. To locate the application, firstly, you must sign in to Facebook. In the search box at the top, type 'Twitter'. You will immediately see some results displayed in a drop down list. Select the Twitter application from all the search results and click on it. The Twitter application page will open.

On the page, hit the button which says - 'Go to application'. Like all other Facebook applications, this one too, will ask for permission to access your personal data. Allow access to get connected with the application. Once you do that, another page will open that will be a log in page to your Twitter account. To gain access to your Twitter account via this Facebook application, you will have to enter your Twitter log in name and password. Once you do that, you will gain access to an interface which lets you tweet directly via Facebook. This is made possible because of the Facebook API (Application Programming Interface).

If you want your Twitter updates or tweets to be simultaneously posted as your Facebook status messages, click on the link on top right, which says 'Allow Twitter to Update Facebook Status'. Once you allow for the updates, the application will directly post every one of your tweets on to your Facebook account. This ends this short tutorial on how to connect Twitter to Facebook.

I searched a lot for information on how to link Twitter to Facebook fan page, but I found no way in which you could do that. Neither did my search for linking Twitter to Facebook groups yielded any results. I guess for sharing stuff on Facebook pages, you have to use the Facebook interface. Social networking sites like Facebook take a bit of time to get used to, but you will get a hang of it eventually, with practice.
Now you can communicate with your Twitter followers and Facebook friends simultaneously! It rescues you from the tiring task of updating your Facebook and Twitter status simultaneously.