How to link Twitter to Facebook 0
3:47 AMOver the past few months my blog has received thousands of hits a day from users looking for information on how they can link Twitter to Facebook. The following is a brief collection of links that will help all of you find what you need:
Twitter’s official page on how to add Twitter to Facebook. The Twitter app for Facebook integrates Twitter into your Facebook experience.
Here is the most popular Twitter Facebook Application.
A blog post from a Facebook employee discussing Publishing to Twitter from Facebook Pages.
The Facebook application Selective Tweets. Selective Tweet Status lets you update your Facebook status from Twitter – BUT you can choose which tweets you want – just end a tweet with #fb when you want to post it as your Facebook status – simple!
A nifty Facebook Page that helps you manage your Facebook Fan Pages connection to Twitter accounts.
Hope this helps!
As usual, go to the Google homepage and enter a keyword or a search term. Click on ‘Search’ button and you will be on the search results page. Now to see the real-time search results for the keyword (search term) you entered, you should first click on “Show Options” button.
You will see that a left pan comes up. This pan allows you to limit your search results to videos, images, blogs, forums, books, etc. Click on “Latest” option in this pan. You will see that the Twitter and Facebook public feeds will show up and will get updated in real time.
It's one of the basic information that you should know about Twitter.(for begginers)
Twitter is a web-based social networking application that allows you to post short updates in real-time for other people to keep track of. Unless you protect your Twitter posts, anybody who has a Twitter account can choose to 'Follow' you and be part of your social network. If you don't want someone to follow you on Twitter, you can make use of the 'Block' feature that prevents your updates from showing up in another person's profile page. Here's how to remove followers from your Twitter account.
Instructions
Step 1
“Log in to your Twitter account. Enter your email address or username, and password into the login screen. Sign in to access your account.” |
Step 2
“Select "Followers" from the right hand sidebar. This area is the middle column directly under your profile image. Clicking it will take you to the list of people who are following you on Twitter.” |
“Track down the follower you want to block. Scroll through your followers list to find the person that you want to disable the follow feature for. You can scroll through multiple pages using the "Next" button at the bottom right hand corner of the page.” |
“Select "Block" next to the follower's name. You will be taken to another screen that will ask you to confirm whether or not you want to block that person.” |
“Confirm the block. Select, "OKAY, I STILL WANT TO BLOCK THIS PERSON" to remove him from your followers list.” |
Facebook Pages may be taking the social network by storm, but they can take time and technical skill to set up. When you need to promote something quickly, or are looking to foster a stronger sense of community, the more traditional Facebook Group is often the way to go.
While not as fancy as Pages, Groups offer many of the same features, with a slightly more streamlined look. This makes it easy for virtually anyone to create a Group, for any number of purposes, and get them live quickly—an important benefit in the time-sensitive social media sphere.
However, the ease and speed with which a Group can be set up has created a lot of spammy or messy Groups that are slapped together in minutes and abandoned soon after. In order to break through the clutter and gain members, you need to take the time to set up a Group correctly. Here are a few tips:
Fill Out All Fields
Use Correct Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Include Keywords for Easier Search
Use With Profile or Page
Make New Friends
Segment Friend Lists
Incorporate Events
Participate and Post New Content
Post Links, Photos, Videos
Send Messages
Groups have mass messaging capabilities, allowing you to quickly keep all members up to date on Group news, events and information. Select “message all members” and draft your message like any other private correspondence on Facebook; it will be delivered to members’ Facebook inboxes just like a message from anyone else. This is one advantage Groups have over Pages; Page updates are dumped into a hidden folder, whereas Group messages carry more weight. That said, they lack the formatting functionality of Page updates and can clog up inboxes quickly, so use sparingly. You may also want to utilize your segmented friend lists to deliver more targeted messaging.
As you can see, a lot of elements go into even the simplest of Facebook Groups. But the tools are all there for you; you just need to use them correctly. And as Facebook pushes users from Groups to Pages, it will be easier and easier to stand out from the crowd of “lost cell-phones” and differentiate your Group as one of the ones to stick with.
Facebook promised a number of changes to appease user concerns about the latest homepage re-design. Users have been noticing these improvements being pushed live to their homepage over the last day or so, and this morning, I finally got them enabled on my account.
After doing a bit of tweaking, I’m definitely enjoying my Facebook homepage more than I was the past couple weeks with version 1 of the redesign. I thought I’d share with you a few of these tweaks – designed primarily to reduce information overload – so you can try them on your own account, unless of course you’re happy with the new, new Facebook as-is.
Custom Friend Lists
This problem probably only applies to those of us that add hundreds of friends, but let’s face it, if you’re reading this article, that’s probably you! I’ve always used Facebook’s custom friend lists, but now, since they’re front and center, it’s time to really take advantage of them.
What I’ve done is create lists for “People I Know” (folks I could actually identify if I ran into them walking down the street), as well as “Colleagues,” “Close Friends,” and “High School,” which, should be self-explanatory. You can create new lists from the “Create” link at the bottom of your list of friend groups on the left side of the Facebook homepage.
If you don’t do this, Facebook will just default to “News Feed,” which shows updates from everyone you’re friends with.
Tweaking These Lists
Hiding Application Notifications
One common complaint with the new Facebook was the influx of information from third-party apps likeFlickr, YouTube, and Last.fm, ala FriendfeedOne common complaint with the new Facebook was the influx of information from third-party apps likeFlickr, YouTube, and Last.fm, ala Friendfeed. With the homepage improvements, you can now hide not only people from your feed, but specific application alerts as well.In this example, I’ve decided to hide alerts from Last.fm, so I no longer see the songs that my friends are loving:
Twitter describes itself as, “a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”
If you’re new Twitter, then that description might seem a bit vague and ambiguous. So, to help you wrap your mind around the short-form messaging tool, start thinking about Twitter as a new form of online communication. Twitter is just communication in a new shape, but it’s also a platform for listening to the communication of others in new ways.
Currently we have email, instant messenger, and VoIP tools like Skype as one-to-one or one-to-few online communication tools. For one-to-many online communication, online publishers can turn to blogs to create and distribute content rapidly and reach anyone on the web through RSS feeds.
Twitter is a combination of these various forms of communication, but its primary difference is that posts, or tweets, are restricted to 140 characters or less. As a Twitter user you can post updates, follow and view updates from other users (this is akin to subscribing to a blog’s RSS feed), and send a public reply or private direct message to connect with another Twitterer.
Though users can answer the prompt, “What are you doing?”, tweets have evolved to more than everyday experiences, and take the shape of shared links to interesting content on the web, conversations around hot topics (using hashtags), photos, videos, music, and, most importantly, real-time accounts from people who are in the midst of a newsworthy event, crisis, or natural disaster.
Google Voice is about giving you more control over your communications, through dozens of features — ranging from call screening to voicemail transcription to the ability to send and receive SMS by email.
While we've heard from users that they love our growing list of features, we're conscious of the fact that Google Voice can seem overwhelming to people trying it for the first time.
So we've created a short video that gives an overview of what Google Voice can do.
In addition, we've created a set of short videos that dive into more detail about ten features of Google Voice:
- Voicemail transcription
- One number
- Personalized greetings
- International calling
- SMS to email
- Share voicemails
- Block callers
- Screen callers
- Mobile app
- Conference calls
Finally, we just launched our own YouTube channel at youtube.com/googlevoice. You can view all of the videos mentioned above in a custom video gadget we built for this channel, which will help you keep track of which videos you've already watched.
You plan to watch a lengthy video clip on YouTube but the problem is that you have lot of other stuff to do and therefore can’t focus all the attention on just one video. You need to browse web pages, check emails in Outlook and maybe complete that presentation while the video plays on your screen.
Fortunately, this is possible with a simple hack – just decide where that video should be placed.
You can either watch the YouTube video from the Firefox sidebar or, if you are working with other application or don’t use Firefox, create a standalone YouTube player window and move it anywhere on the desktop in Always on Top mode. See screenshots.
Case 1. YouTube Player inside the Firefox Sidebar
Case 2. YouTube Player on top of other Windows
Here are the steps involved for either of the methods discussed above.
1. Get the full screen mode address of the YouTube video clip. It is something likewww.youtube.com/v/ABC where ABC is the YouTube video ID.
For instance, if the YouTube video is located at www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZ9z6BBMVY, the full screen player will be available at www.youtube.com/v/8bZ9z6BBMVY
2a. To watch the video in Firefox sidebar, bookmark that new YouTube address and check the "Load in Sidebar" property of the bookmark as shown in the screenshot.
2b: To watch the video in a standalone player, open a new browser window and copy-paste the YouTube address THAT you generated in step 1. Now resize the browser window to fit the player, activate the Always on Top program (download link) and press Ctrl + Spacebar to make sure that YouTube player stays in the foreground. That’s it.
Notes: While you may also use the regular YouTube video URL in either of these cases, the experience won’t be so great.
Imagine a situation where you are browsing the web in Firefox and simultaneously watching some video podcast in Windows Movie Player or QuickTime.
That Firefox window is running in "Maximized" mode so each time you switch to Firefox, the media player window disappears as it moves to the background behind Firefox.
So what do you do to prevent that video clip from hiding even while you continue to work in a browser?
Enter "Always on Top" – it’s a free utility written in Autohotkey that will stick any program window to the foreground of your desktop with a simple keyboard shortcut. Some examples:
Browser running in foreground but QuickTime is always visible
Keep the notepad or calculator handy while using an Excel Spreadsheet
To get started, download the Always On Top utility from box.net (<200k)>
You no longer have to worry about arranging windows side-by-side to copy-paste information from one window to another.
If you like to disable sticking and restore the default window behavior, just press the same Ctrl+Space shortcut again.
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