How To Automatically Send Tweets (Twitter) To Facebook Fan Pages

This entry is part 1 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

**  UPDATE:  1/10/10 **

RSS Graffiti has updated their application, and is now the premier method for sending tweets to Facebook Fan Pages.

Here’s a video tutorial on how to set it – it’s now very easy to do:


Now you can automatically stream your Twitter updates to your Facebook Fan Page!

It is a problem that plagues a lot of Twitter / Facebook Fan Page owners.

People don’t want to be logging in a bunch of different social platforms – they just want to update Twitter and have it automatically update their Facebook Fan Page – and that’s what this tutorials achieves.

If you’d like me to help / set this up for you, then contact me here.

Here’s How To Send Tweets Automatically To Facebook Fan Pages

The Easy Way To Send Your Twitter Stream To Facebook Fan Pages Using RSS Graffiti

This entry is part 2 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

** Update from RSS Graffiti: Rousso from the development team at RSS Graffiti let me know that “RSS Graffiti now scans feeds every 4-5 minutes (as opposed to 30-60 minutes I mention in this post). We don’t plan to keep it so fast for ever but we will definitely try to keep it checking all feeds every 10 minutes or less.”

I’ve written several different articles on how to automatically send Twitter updates to your Facebook Fan Page – you can find them in my Facebook Fan Page Series.  Most of these “how to’s” explain somewhat complicated methods of customizing the Twitter RSS feed and other integration strategies.  So I felt like I needed to find just a simple, non-complicated, non “customized” way to automatically send Twitter updates to Facebook Fan Pages, and I believe I have found it.

Thank you Dimitris Komis from RSS Graffiti for commenting on my previous article and helping us all understand why we are having so many issues with Yahoo Pipes (read his message in the comments section here).

Here’s how to quickly and easily send Twitter updates to Facebook Fan Pages:

Automatically Send Twitter (tweets) To Facebook Fan Page

This entry is part 2 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

RSS Graffiti just released a new update to their Facebook app that is specifically designed to help you automatically send your Twitter updates to your Facebook Fan Page.  I’ve written previous articles on making this happen, but the processes were long, cumbersome, and utilized other applications (like Yahoo Pipes) that had a lot of problems.

RSS Graffiti’s new update however 100% eliminates these problems, and is now the premier application for automatically sending your Twitter updates to your Facebook Fan Page.  And you can customize the Twitter updates to do things like strip your Twitter username from the front of your updates, include or exclude @ replies and retweets.

Click here to watch a screencast video, or watch the YouTube version below:

How To Add FBML To Facebook Fan Pages {VIDEO}

This entry is part 3 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

Your Facebook Fan Page is highly customizable thanks to the Static FBML app.  FBML stands for Facebook Markup Language, and the FBML app allows you to add basic HTML code for the customization of your Facebook Fan Page.  The video below will show you how to add the FBML to your Facebook Fan Page, customize the FBML app, and how to specify what tab non-fans land on in your Facebook Fan Page.

How To Add FBML App To Your Facebook Fan Page:

How To Change Facebook Fan Page Landing Tabs

This entry is part 4 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

Facebook Fan Pages allow a certain level of customization.  Customization within the pages themselves if most easily achieved with the FMBL (Facebook Markup Language) app.  FMBL allows for most HTML customization, but does not allow advanced javascript.

Beside integrating custom FBML, one of the best customization elements with Facebook Fan Pages is setting a custom landing tab.

Here’s How To Set Custom Landing Tabs on Facebook Fan Pages:

Automatically Send Twitter To Facebook Fan Pages

This entry is part 5 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

This articles describes a process that is still being tested – leave comments about your experience with it.

*** UPDATE 2/10/2010 ***

RSS Graffiti just updated their Facebook application so that you can customize the Twitter RSS feed directly from the RSS Graffiti app.  This is a powerful update because you no longer need to deal with Yahoo Pipes to customize your Twitter RSS feed – RSS Graffiti now has the options that you need like stripping the Twitter username from the front of the Twitter updates, including or excluding retweets and @ replies.

How To Get Facebook Fan Page Email Notifications

This entry is part 6 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

The Facebook forums are full of people who are begging to receive email notifications when someone adds a comment on their Facebook Fan Page.  And it’s unbelievable to me that Facebook hasn’t added this feature.  But oh well… since Facebook doesn’t do it – and we all need – we are left to figuring out a way to make it happen on our own!

So here’s how to get email notifications of comments added to your Facebook Fan Page:

Create A Facebook Fan Page In 4 Easy Steps

This entry is part 7 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

Create A Facebook Fan Page

A Facebook Fan Page for your business, product, or service is like having a social hour, or a cocktail party, where all the guests are those who voluntarily showed up on your behalf.  This means, a Facebook Fan Page can be an extremely valuable resource for growing your business and building your brand.  So today I’m going to show an easy way to create a Facebook Fan Page!

Here’s how to create a Facebook Fan Page in 4 easy steps:

How To: Create Your Own Facebook Username (URL) For Pages & Profiles

This entry is part 8 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

facebookCreate Your Own Facebook Username

** NOTE:  You must have 25 fans currently in order to create your own custom URL / username for your Facebook Fan Page.

On June 12th, Facebook opened up the ability for users to create their own usernames.  As Facebook put in their blog posting:

choosing a username is optional and will give you a distinct Web address for your profile. It will not change the name that appears on your profile, in search or elsewhere on the site.

So even though the flood gates opened up on June 12th – about 3 months ago – that doesn’t mean you can’t still create your own unique Facebook username for your domain (URL).

How To Make Someone An “Admin” – Facebook Fan Page

This entry is part 9 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

FaceBook-LogoThis is really simple, and something I’ve written about before.  However, it’s a question that comes up a lot and rightly so I suppose.

People are wanting to make others an admin to their Facebook Fan Page – that’s understandable – and need to know how to do it!  That’s why I’m writing this quick “How To”.  It’s going to be quick because… well… making someone an admin is simple.

Here’s how to make somene an “Admin” on your Facebook Fan Page:

How To Add Multiple Admins To Facebook Fan Pages

This entry is part 10 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

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** NOTE: To add only one admin to your Facebook Fan Page, you can read this article here.

I’ve been asked this question several times from  clients:

How do you add multiple admins (page administrators) to Facebook Fan Pages?”

I’m going to walk you through the very simple process of adding multiple admins to your Facebook Fan Page.  There is no limit on the number of admins your page can have; however, at the end of my steps, I’m going to give you a couple things to consider when it comes to admins on Facebook Fan Pages.

Here’s how to add multiple admins to your Facebook Fan Pages:

Understanding Facebook Fan Page Admins

This entry is part 11 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

A lot of people as me to explain exactly how “admins” work on a Facebook Fan Page.  In fact, it’s not uncommon for the same people to ask me more than once to explain it again, “only slower this time, please…”

Which I’m always perfectly happy and patient to oblige because I understand that Facebook Fan Page admin functionality can be a bit confusing.

First, let me explain what a Facebook Fan Page Admin is!

2 Simple Steps To Create Admins on Facebook Fan Pages

This entry is part 12 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

Sometimes people make things more complicated than they need to be.  Making someone an “Admin” on a Facebook Fan Page is one of these cases.

And regardless of whether you want to create just one admin, or multiple admins for your Facebook Fan Page, the process is the same.

Making someone an admin to a Facebook Fan Page can be done in 2 easy steps:

How to: Set A Custom Landing Tab For Facebook Fan Pages

This entry is part 13 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

icon_facebookI’ve been getting a lot of questions lately from people who want to specify which tab visitors land on in their Facebook Fan Page.  And understanbly so, because this is a very cool feature for Facebook Fan Pages, and allows some element of customization and “character” to your Pages.

So here it goes – a quick and easy “HOW TO” for setting a custom landing tab for your Facebook Fan Page:

Facebook Fan Page Tip: Default Landing Tab For Everyone Else

This entry is part 14 of 26 in Facebook Fan Page Series

increasing-trendFacebook Fan Page Landing Tabs

Having a default landing tab for your Facebook Fan Page is a great way to achieve 2 specific goals:

1) It’s a great way to “NOT” send traffic initially to your busy wall / news stream.

2) It’s a great way to invite people who are not yet fans of your Facebook Fan Page to click the “Become A Fan” button and join your page.

Your Default Landing Tab