For months, I have had a problem with my Twitter updates showing up multiple times on my Facebook pages. It drives friends nuts, splits conversations, and makes me a look like a spammer. (Spammer? How? Duplicate content on my news and profile every time I tweet.)
Today, I think I finally figured out (and fixed) the last piece of the problem. I was allowing three Facebook applications to update my page with my tweets:
- FriendFeed
- Tweeter
I had found the FriendFeed problem about a month ago.Today I dug and found Tweeter.
Where did I find it? Let’s step through:
- Edit your applications. The easiest way to get there is to click the applications box on the lower left of your Facebook page. At the bottom of the list, you will find “Edit Applications”.
- Change the “Show” dropdown to “Allowed to Post”.
Change "Show" setting
- Scroll down to the section “Allowed to Post One-Line Stories without Prompting”.
- Scroll through that section of the page and find anything that posts your tweets (FriendFeed, Tweeter, Twitter, etc.)
- In turn, click edit settings for each of those applications.
- Change to the “Additional Permissions” tab and uncheck “Publish to streams”.
Uncheck to stop the double posts!
- In turn, click edit settings for each of those applications. Be sure to leave at least one application posting to your feeds, or your tweets won’t ever show.
If you want to dig further, check the “Granted Addtional Permissions” tab. You will see multiple sublists on that page. I found that Twitter was set to publish to my wall, my status, and others. I tried to change it to just my status, but was not successful. It seems to be either on everywhere or off everywhere.
As far as I can tell, this process should fix the double posts for future tweets. It won’t change tweets made before the change. If you find differently, tell me – we’ll keep beating on the problem!
UPDATE:
After much hassle, I decided to go with TweetDeck. I installed TweetDeck and set it up to send to both Twitter and Facebook. The notes about turning off thenotifications from applications still applies, but TweetDeck doesn’t work via the applications. Instead, it runs on your desktop (or iPhone if you are lucky enough to have one). You post from it.
If you want help on getting it set up, let me know!
