making twitter work with facebook fan pages

I have the twitter app for facebook. I use it with my personal twitter acct to update my facebook status.

I also want a feed, from a different twitter, to appear on a fan page for work. When I installed the app for the fan page, it links to my personal account on the feeds page, but the work account for the setting page.

I also can't figure out how to make the feed show up on the fan page.

Yeah, this is completely broken at the moment. I have exactly the same problem as jessilong.

Heah, I can use an RSS importer app but I haven't found one yet that doesn't look like an RSS importer! Getting a lovely Twitter style box on the Fan pages would be great!

None of the RSS apps are working for me!! Making a fan page is so much harder I wish they would just allow profiles for businesses - this is silly!!

GREAT info about the RSS feed reader for FB fan page. RSS-Connect is the application that I'm using and seems to be working so far.

But the RSS imported goes directly to your main profile page, not your fan page...right? Is there any way to make sure it just imports to your fan page only?

So I added RSS Connect but even still I want it all! I want it to come with that lovely link that you get on your wall and news feed. The status update has many more options like a picture and description of a link or photo etc. Facebook really needs to work on this as I have found no one that can do this without manually creating an update on the facebook fan page.

Go to your page (that you admin), click on EDIT PAGE.
Scroll to the very bottom box and click the pencil next to MORE APPLICATIONS.
Click BROWSE MORE.
In the search box, type in "twitter".
Click on the first one.
Click on the box for ADD TO PAGE.
Confirm and you are done.

However, I must admit, it is much smarter to use the Selective Twitter Status app, as you never really want ALL your twitter junking up your FB pages..do you? When you put #fb at the end of your twitter status, it will also feed to your page and take out the #fb from your post. I like it so much better.

I did find out that you can update FB pages through ping.fm. You can have ping.fm update both your Twitter and FB pages at the same time.

Since I use Twitter to update my personal status and you can only allow one Twitter account, I had to figure a work-around.

In the end, I had to create a new Facebook account, give that account Admin privileges on my page, then allow Twitter to update that page's status. Convoluted I know, but I think it'll work.

Yay, I have finally gotten this to work!! It's a complete abuse of technology but it does work and an using it to post our @GoodwoodRoller feed to our Goodwood Roller Marathon Facebook Page :-)

The processs flow is ... CoTweet -> Twitter -> Yahoo Pipes -> TwitterFeed -> Ping.fm -> Facebook Page !!!

CoTweet, not really required but I use it to schedule tweets for times when people are reading Twitter & Facebook (lunchtime)

Twitter, it's just twitter really :-p

Yahoo Pipes, I take the RSS feed of my twitter account and filter out all the @ replies and strips off the Twitter username off the beginning of each entry. you can see the pipe I use HERE

TwitterFeed, Everyone uses TwitterFeed to publish RSS to twitter but did you know it can publish RSS to ping.fm too?? you probably want to setup this stage last so setup ping.fm first and come back to this :-)

Ping.fm, The only tool I have found that can update Facebook pages from another source. Make sure you don't setup ping.fm to update your twitter pages too else you will get an endless look of message updates!! I created a seperate ping.fm account for this, follow their instructions for setting up to update a Facebook page.

Facebook Page, Err, yeah, where it'll all end up! :-p

I have set this up similarly @Dogsbody, but it doesn't seem to work. My Twitterfeed account takes my Twitter RSS and posts it to Ping.fm. Then I have my Ping.fm account set to update my Facebook fan page. Everything seems to be linked up correctly, but when I post to Twitter, it doesn't seem to make it to Ping or to my Facebook fan page.

Any ideas?

I still can't figure out how to update my Fan page with my twitter updates...

I added the Twitter application to my Facebook Page. Yet, when trying to edit its settings through the edit page for my Facebook Page, I get the settings for my own account.

If you post from their site Ping.fm takes care of everything you could ever ask for. Otherwise just use Dogsbody's method of Twitterfeed -> Ping.fm and problem solved!!!!!!

It took me few days to figure it out and i have created a step by step video to show exactly how to do this... it links to your updates and it DOES NOT put a tab in your page like so many of them do..straight to the status update of your fanpage.
Check out the vid here http://ow.ly/ueg1
leave a comment on my blog if it helps you
Andymac71

I do like the idea Brandon proposed, but I need to authorize Ping.fm to access my personal account and to update my status before I can authorize it to update the status of a Fan Page. Still, it's the best solution so far.

As for the solution Andrew suggested in his video, it's the application called "Selective Twitter Update." This requires you to append your tweets with "#fb" to make it work. Too messy of a solution for me.