Publish your Facebook status updates to Twitter

What are you doing right now? When you answer that question, do you update it to Facebook and/or Twitter? If so, you've caught the bug, and we pity you. But worse, if you've caught the bug, and you use both Facebook and Twitter, does it drive you crazy that you can't simply enter your status update once and have it apply to both services?

Well, it turns out that you can, but it's not as straightforward as it ought to be. Luckily, Jeff Sandquist walks us through it. Using Twitterfeed and a little-known method for getting your Facebook status updates as an RSS feed, you can push all of your updates straight through to Twitter. There are two small caveats, but they're worth noting. Twitterfeed updates based on a schedule, and the quickest you can set it to is 30 minutes. Also, all of your status updates will be phrased as "Yourname is" exactly as it is in Facebook, which looks a bit awkward in Twitter. However if you choose to, you can add a prefix to make it clear that the updates are coming from Facebook.

Tags: Facebook, freeware, howtos, Twitter, Twitterfeed