If you use Facebook and Twitter, at some point or other you’ve probably wondered if you can link your status between the two sites. A cheeky Google search will have shown you a veritable plethora of ways to do this, but I found them all to be very underwhelming.

The problem is that your status in Facebook isn’t (or at least shouldn’t be) used in the same way as your Twitter. I ended up wishing that I could select specific Tweets to go as my Facebook status, instead of blindly setting a whole load of meaningless @replies and retweets.

Well my prayers have been answered by the aptly named Selective Tweets application for Facebook. It’s free and is easy to use (assuming you can spell your Twitter username, something which did prove problematic for me…*hangs head*).

So set up’s as simple as putting your Twitter username in a box and using it’s just as easy. Mine’s set up to set a Tweet as my Facebook status if I include the text “#fb” somewhere in the tweet. That’s it, everything should now be working better than a… a… I can’t think of anything which isn’t extremely racist, apologies!

When I first did this my next reaction was to go “oh cool, now I’ll make my Facebook status update Twitter”. If you’re in the same position learn from my error and save yourself some time. It really isn’t worth it, and here’s why:

First of all, Facebook doesn’t have a character limit. This, along with embeddable pictures and videos, can lead to some fairly horrendous tweets. Secondly, Facebook seem intent on making it as hard as possible to do, and constantly move the required information around. You’ll end up wasting a lot more time getting it working than if you just did everything manually. In my opinion you’re much better off leaving it be.

So anyway I hope you find Selective Tweets useful, do let me know what you think in the comments below.

P.s. Found an entertaining video earlier and thought I’d include it as it’s fairly related to this post, check it out below!