Making it all work together…

April 27th, 2009 by Doug Discuss this article »

I got an interesting question about HOW I’ve tied Facebook, Twitter, and DougMeade.com together. The answer ended up being longer than a status comment is allowed to be on facebook. So I thought I’d put the info here.

Here’s the breakdown - I hope it’s not too confusing.

I’ve decided that (for me) everything starts from twitter … if you’re curious here’s why I chose to use twitter as my “home base”
http://www.dougmeade.com/about/about-the-site/

Anyway…

I have a wordpress plugin called “twitterTools” running on DougMeade.com that creates posts from my tweets, and tweets from my posts.
Here’s a link to the plugin:
http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress

Also I use the Twitter FaceBook app to put my tweets in my status.
Here’s a link to the facebook app:
http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2231777543

My only concern at the moment is… what happens when I reply to a tweet. I’d rather NOT have any twitter replys show up as my facebook status.

Previously I was using a wordpress plugin called “wordbook”  to update Facebook with my blog posts .. which were being created by my tweets. :) That worked great because twitterTools doesn’t create posts for twitter replys - so I never had to worry about facebook being updated with those.

The downside is that WordBook updates the wall - not the status.
But other than that it’s a good tool.
Here’s a link to WordBook:
http://www.tsaiberspace.net/projects/wordpress/wordbook/

…In the end I may have to create my own app. :)

3 Responses Add your own

  1. Darren says:

    I am impressed by your geeky-ness….

  2. Doug says:

    Eh it’s more “lazy” than “geeky” … I just don’t want to have to updated a million sites, and I like the idea of short quick blog posts. :)

    We’ll see if the new site focus helps keep things updated here.

  3. Doug says:

    UPDATE:
    It appears that the official twitter app does NOT post replies you make on twitter to you facebook status.

    This is very good news.

    All I need now is an easy way to assign tweets to various categories.

    Ideally I could add a hash tag to a tweet to categorize the resulting post.

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