By: Adrian T. Dayton

A rule of thumb I use for Facebook and Twitter is this: Facebook for friends and groups, Twitter for business. That is not to say that either network cannot be used for both activities. There is plenty of crossover between FB and Twitter, and even a Twitter application for Facebook but there are fundamental differences between the two as well.

Twitter is very inclusive with respect to meeting new people. The inclusive nature of Twitter has even spawned the innovation of a special day of the week called #followfriday, which is a way of recommending quality people for your followers to follow by using #hashtags. Follow Friday has a few corresponding websites such as TopFollowFriday.com, which lists the people on Twitter with the most daily #followfriday endorsements. Facebook, on the other hand, is more directed towards real life friends. Following someone on Twitter can be a one way street, but Friending some on Facebook always involves a connection.

Facebook has filtering tools that allows you to organize and segment groups. If you create a group on Facebook you are able to message all individuals within the group. Facebook groups can cover most any kind of group you can imagine; parties, campaigns, meetings, you name it. The weakness of Facebook groups are that getting the word out to strangers or people that you are not directly connected with you is quite difficult without using advertising.

In sharp contrast with Facebook, Twitter is a noisy cocktail party where almost everything said can be overheard by anybody else. Profiles on Twitter can be private, but are almost always open for all to see. This open form of communication removes many barriers to conversation. Twitter helps to facilitate connections between total strangers by encouraging people to read each others tweets, communicate, follow each other, and become acquainted. By allowing others in on your conversation people can find connections with each other based on the content of the conversation rather than relying mostly on a pre-existing friend network, as Facebook does.

Conclusion

Facebook and Twitter both have their strengths, and both are amazing in their own ways. If you are only using one of these platforms, I suggest you take the time to learn to use them both, because from here on out Facebook and Twitter will help define how our society communicates.

By: Garin Kilpatrick

The most common way that people broadcast Facebook updates elsware on the web is by installing the Twitter Application for Facebook. The disadvantage of this is that once you sync the Twitter application with your Facebook status you cannot choose which tweets also post as status updates.  With the Twitter app for Facebook it is all tweets to facebook, or nothing.

Selective Twitter provides a simple solution to this dilemma.  I will start off by saying that Selective Twitter is the simplest Facebook application I have ever encountered.  Adding the application is a simple one step process that involves you entering your Twitter user name.  And that’s it!

Once you have followed this one step process simply post #fb at the end of any Tweet and the Tweet will also post as a Facebook Status Update.

Broadcasting your Facebook Status beyond Twitter

For social media butterflys there is another solution called Ping.fm that allows you to post updates to Twitter and Facebook, and also to over 30 other social media Websites.

Once you join up with ping you can add thedifferent social websites you belong to, including Wordpress and Blogger blogs, and choose to broadcast your message to certain sites, or to all of your networks at once.

Ping.fm is used by people like @ChrisPrillo, @Mashable, and myself.  I can personally testify to the simplicity and effectiveness of Ping.fm

Want to Broadcast more than just a Status Update?

A service that allows you to broadcast not only status updates, but also content, is called Pixelpipe.

Pixelpipe’s motto is “Free your content” and they already support over 60 services and counting.

Conclusion

The above are just three ways to move alot of content on facebook and across the web, with little effort, and certainly there are many more.

What are your experiences and thoughts about the above services and others that are out there?

Garin Kilpatrick