Some time ago I had the brilliant idea to connect my Twitter account to my Facebook status. It’s very easy, you just need to install the Twitter app on Facebook and it does the rest.
It is very useful when you just update Twitter a couple of times during the day, with messages like “Lunch”, “Dinner”, “Office” or “I wonder why You Exist”. On the contrary, if you use Twitter intensely as I’ve been doing for the past weeks, it becomes a real pain for your Facebook friends. I’ll tell you why.
The good thing is that it doesn’t update the “@” responses to your friends while, unfortunately, it synchronizes all your retweets (RT). If you use it continuously for 10 minutes replying, retweeting and so on, your Facebook profile looks like this:
In the past few days I received some messages from my friends on Facebook complaining about their FB page filled with my status updates via Twitter, most of the times completely irrelevant for them (and those friends who complained are not Twitter users).
Ok, I publicly apologize. I slowly realized that Twitter and Facebook are two different worlds and you cannot make the latter behave like the former. Facebook is more about relaxing interactions between you and your friends, with a lot of sharing and gossip. Nothing to do with the realtime, frenetic activity typical of Twitter.
All that said, I removed the Facebook Twitter app and I will start updating my FB status message directly. My FB friends don’t have to worry anymore.
What about you?
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