Quawkle

I have been using my favorite Twitter client Tweetie on both my Mac and iPhone. I really enjoy using this client even though there are many good choices for both the iPhone and the Mac (and my Windows PC). Tweetie is just simple to use, clean interface, and doesn’t get in the way of the experience. But alas, I digress. I was reading through the entries in Tweetie when I saw a tweet by Dave Hamilton of the MacObserver fame. I noticed again that he was using the Twitter hashtag #fb at the end of the tweet. I saw several tweets in the past where he did the same thing and even though Facebook came to mind, I wasn’t sure why he used them. I did a search on #fb in Tweetie and noticed that many other folks also used the hashtag and then it dawn on me that maybe it was a method of interposting between Twitter and Facebook. I used the Twitter application on Facebook that will pull in all of my tweets as Facebook status updates. I have often lamented that while I like to cross post between Twitter and Facebook, not everything I post on Twitter makes sense to those reading my Facebook entries. It would be nice to find an easy way to selectively choose which tweets I made would post on Facebook and do it “on the fly.” That is when I learned about the Facebook application, Selective Twitter. By install the application (and unistalling the Facebook Twitter application), I am now able to send selective tweets to my Facebook status by simply appending #fb at the end of my tweets. Sure I lose 4 characters, but the tradeoff is worth it.

This created a new issue however. My Quawkle blog posts are automatically sent to Twitter as a link post and previously with the Twitter app in Facebook, those blog notifications would automatically appear on my  Facebook status updates. By switching to Selective Twitter, the only way to maintain Quawkle posts ending up in Facebook was to either appending my post titles with #fb (not a clean choice) or by searching for a new WordPress plugin that would automatically publish notification of my blog posts to Facebook. For this purpose, I just installed Publish to Facebook, a WordPress plugin for just that purpose. In fact this post will be the maiden voyage using the newly installed WordPress plugin. Hopefully you will see this on my Facebook status if you are a Facebook friend. Fingers crossed!