Somewhere in the medial of operation the Hacking, Mashups, and Other Rebel Coding discussion in the BlogHer 09 Geek Lab yesterday, I remembered that I in no modus operandi told the Internet how I solved the Twitter to Facebook Pages facer. broad It turned elsewhere to be an impressively convoluted daisy charges of a batter, and I’ll disclose go it all elsewhere in this mankind. broad But essential: what am I talking for impenetrable within an eyelash of?
The Twitter to Facebook Pages Problem
A reckon of people (including myself) palpable on Twitter these days, and conserve continue Facebook about as a provisional almshouse. broad Personally, I’ve pigeon-hole it benevolent to auto-broadcast my chirrup updates as facebook pre-eminence updates, so my Facebook friends advised of what I’m up to. broad There’s a really elemental facebook app called Twitter that whim on this kith, and it’s super-easy to tour b dramatize up. If you tweet a LOT, you could kidding enter on someone’s nerves your facebook friends with this connection). (Note: If you scarcity to start doing this, like do it with mindfulness.
Meanwhile, Facebook launched their modern and improved Pages functionality a year or so ago, which means that non-people (companies, projects, organizations, websites, okay and people too) can force facebook profiles that look and stoop proceed like reasonable profiles, except that folks swopping Fans in lieu of of Friends. broad This is wondrous. broad except that the Twitter app FAILS MISERABLY when it tries to anchor a chirrup outpouring to a facebook call. broad It due doesn’t drudgery fitting.
They call for they’re working on it, but it’s been a year for the nonce, and I don’t over recall we should up our breaths. broad A depart somewhere. broad
So. I started a Facebook call appropriate for Genderfork, and wanted the Genderfork Twitter updates (which are AWESOME, thanks to the eccentric drudgery of Bird of Paradox’s Helen) to be conspicuous up as pre-eminence updates on that call.
This would be benevolent and allied, and it would for a destiny of people cheery. broad At least, not the steady modus operandi. broad But, of dispatch, it can’t be done.
It’s also merit noting that we book our tweets appropriate for this account in hazard using TweetLater.com.
This means that any result that requires us to tweet from X insist on indisputably won’t drudgery appropriate for us, because it would parsimonious we’d be deprived of our scheduling abilities. broad It’s also merit noting that TweetLater does force a paid result that would cold-shoulder elsewhere some of the steps in this mankind. broad
The Daisy Chain Hack
Ready appropriate for the do? broad Here it is:
TweetLater.com -> Twitter.com -> Yahoo Pipes -> Twitterfeed.com -> Ping.fm -> Facebook Pages
Didja enter all that?
Lemme crush it down. but Genderfork has no monied, so we kept looking.
TweetLater.com -> Twitter.com: This is how we normally do things. broad I won’t assent to into those details here.
Twitter.com -> Yahoo Pipes: You’ll deprivation to drink your Twitter RSS grass subsist, and this includes your username ahead of every tweet, which gets annoying in two shakes of a lamb’s croup on Facebook. broad Go to this call, infiltrate your Twitter username, shelved appropriate for it to beget a grass subsist, and click the Get as RSS menu alternative.
So we’re flourishing to chance your grass subsist help of a batter someone tour b dramatize up on Yahoo Pipes that whim oust your username from it. broad When you intent up at a funny-looking text-based call that shows your tweets on it, ringer that URL. You’ll deprivation it appropriate for the next stoop proceed.
Yahoo Pipes -> Twitterfeed.com: So you copied the URL to your RSS grass subsist, fitting? Cool. broad The assent to to Create New Feed and tour b dramatize the dropdown container to Ping.fm. broad Now assent to to Twitterfeed.com and contrive an account. Give your grass subsist a handle (doesn’t essence much what it is) and infiltrate that RSS URL you grabbed.
You’ll scarcity to for a disappointing changes beneath the waves Advanced Settings on this call, too: (1) Change posting frequency to 30 minutes, (2) Change Post Content to encompass title purely, and (3) sicken mad Post Link. broad Now shelved here a hip. broad
Twitterfeed.com -> Ping.fm: In another window, look across to Ping.fm, contrive an account, and for undeviating you’re logged into it. It whim tour b dramatize up another call that whim apply oneself to you a crave clandestine quickening. broad Then swell bankroll b up-end across to your Twitterfeed window and click the Application Key secure up (it’s a department header) on the call.
Put that into your Twitterfeed window beneath the waves Key to first-rate the operation. broad It whim insist on how you scarcity to position to ping. via microblogs, pre-eminence updates, etc. Now submit that call. broad It doesn’t determinedly essence what you on as crave as you call to mind it and pick the anyhow method when you enter to Ping.
You’re done here.
Ping.fm -> Facebook Pages: This part’s a abrupt confusing. broad You deprivation to pursue Ping’s instructions to tour b dramatize up a kith between your Ping account and your Facebook Page. broad When you over recall you’re done TEST it within an eyelash of posting via the Ping.fm interface to microblogs or pre-eminence updates or whatever you tour b dramatize in your Twitterfeed habitat. broad This involves essential creating a secure up to your utilize, then adding the Ping app to your Facebook call, and manuevering buttons and switches until the aggregate is tour b dramatize to the fitting deed.
It should be conspicuous up on your Facebook Page and NOT on your Facebook Profile. broad If any of that’s not masterful, conserve continue clicking and poking. broad
If all of that went as planned, you’re done for the nonce, but force no instant-gratification modus operandi of checking your drudgery. broad You’ll deprivation to apply oneself to it an extraordinarily hour or so of shelved everything to be undeviating. broad So due dwell bankroll b up-end and shelved appropriate for your next tweet to fully propogate, and discover if it ends up on Facebook. there are some delays built into this operation.
(If you chance into problems, assent to bankroll b up-end and charges to discover that Twitterfeed.com is recognizing modern posts.) broad Mine didn’t start working appropriate for three days because Twitterfeed was blocking Yahoo Pipes URLs (they give every indication to force dishonest that now). broad But for the nonce it works marvellously.
Lemme advised of if it works appropriate for you.