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Selective Tweets selective about services?

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Every blog­ger is tap­ping into the traf­fic that Twit­ter and Face­book can rpo­vide, so com­bin­ing the two with one click only seemed obvi­ous. Selec­tive Tweets did that for us.

Selec­tive Tweets allows you to tweet any­thing and by adding a sim­ple hash­tag (#fb) to the end of it will also become your new Face­book sta­tus. To use Selec­tive Tweets you need to con­fig­ure it to your Twit­ter account first.

While all this sounds sim­ple and easy, there is always a catch.

At first we thought Selec­tive Tweets was to blame for cer­tain url short­en­ing ser­vices being blocked, how­ever, this seems to be a Face­book issue.

We tested sev­eral ser­vices by doing test tweets using our root domain, http://www.faqpal.com, the fol­low­ing is the result of that test:

Suc­cess­fully posted to Facebook:

Ow.ly — Ow.ly

URL Shortening Ow.ly

Bit.ly — Bit.ly

URL Shortening Bit.ly

TinyURL.com — Ow.ly

URL Shortening TinyURL.com

Zi.ma — Zi.ma

URL Shortening Zi.ma

Snipurl.com — Snipurl.com

URL Shortening Snipurl

Adjix.com — Adjix.com

URL Shortening Adjix

Metamark.com — Metamark.com

URL Shortening Metamark

MooURL.com — MooURL.com

URL Shortening MooURL

Unsuc­cess­fully posted to Facebook:

Tweetburner.com — Tweetburner.com

URL Shortening Tweetburner

Is.gd — Is.gd

URL Shortening Is.gd

Cli.gs — Cli.gs

URL Shortening Cli.gs

We will actu­ally do a test on 90 ser­vices over the next week or so and will post our results once completed.

So before you blame an app like we did, do a few tests and see what you find. Face­book needs to address this issue as many Tweet­ers use some of the ser­vices not cur­rently accepted by Facebook.

What issues have you faced with this app?

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  • Very Nice Information and informative as well
  • How to show only selective tweets on Facebook - a must-read!
  • I set up the FB-Twitter integration yesterday and... DOH! I need to implement the above advice so I don't irritate my connx. Thanks David. You rule. -- Red
  • I don’t use Facebook often, but I have gotten a few comments before based on my Facebook status, so using this app allows me to more easily share that information with the Facebook friends who want it, instead of them seeing a constant stream of all of the interesting articles I come across or resources I share with the audience I have built up on Twitter.
  • Even better, if you use Twitterfeed so that all of your blog posts are then tweeted, you can automatically have the #fb tag added to the end of the post, which means your blog post will be sent to Facebook as well.
  • Facebook Connect gives users more control over which Tweets show up on their Facebook page. Like Selective Twitter Status, TweetFace lets Twitter users filter which updates change their Facebook status.
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