Twitter, How To Post To Twitter And FaceBook From TweetDeck!
This is a game changer!
Before I get into the how to, I just want to say a massive well done and huge thank you, to @iandodsworth the genius creator of TweetDeck.
As if TweetDeck wasn’t great already, today as I am waiting for Twhirl/Seesmic to fully intergrate Facebook, Ian released a beta update to TweetDeck bringing Twitter and Facebook into one desktop client.
Anyway, here is how to update Twitter and FaceBook from the marvelous Twitter client, TweetDeck.
The test release of TweetDeck now allows you to:
- See your Facebook friends’ status updates right there in a TweetDeck column, auto-updating, just like your other TweetDeck columns.
- View your Facebook friends’ profiles on the web with one click.
- Post your status update to Twitter and/or Facebook at the same time.
- See which of your Facebook friends are available for Facebook chat.
- Start a FaceBook chat session from direct inside TweetDeck.
Once you have updated to the pre-release of TweetDeck you can easily see your friends Facebook status updates in TweetDeck, you just add a Facebook column by clicking the new FaceBook button on the right end of the top-left toolbar.
You will then be greated with a Facebook login window. Put in your Facebook login details and check the remember me box before hitting the connect/login button.
Almost there, now you will see a allow access window. Allow TweetDeck access to your Facebook profile and you are done.
You will now be the proud owner of a Facebook column in your TweetDeck. When ever you click on the Facebook button in future you will not have to go through this process, your Facebook column will simply appear like any other TweetDeck column.
Also like all other TweetDeck columns, when ever a friend updates their status, you will receive the normal TweetDeck notifications.
Now for the really cool features!
When you click on a Facebook username under a status update if the friend is currently online in Facebook chat, TweetDeck will open a Facebook chat window with that friend. When you click on the username of a friend currently offline in Facebook chat, you will be taken to that friend’s profile page on the Facebook web site.
You can easily see if a friend is online in Facebook chat by the green light next to the username of any friend currently online in Facebook chat.
When you hover over the profile picture within a Facebook update you will get the same options as regular tweets.
- The envelope icon will open up your prefered email client to email on this update.
- The arrow icon will retweet this update prefixed by FB RT. This will be great for cross platform interaction between friends and followers.
If you want to go straight to your friends Facebook profile you just need to click on the tweet source link, in this case “via Facebook”. This link is found alongside the name, date and time in all updates.
To post an update to Twitter and/or Facebook there are now two check boxes next to the tweet box.
Since asking early users of the new beta and getting a unaminous yes vote, for the benefit of understandable conversation TweetDeck will NOT post @replies to Facebook. To stop your private tweets going public, DMs will also not be posted to Facebook even if the Facebook check box is ticked.
For all other tweets and retweets, you simply tick the box of Twitter and/or Facebook to select where your update will be posted to.
Like the first time you open up the Facebook column, when you first use TweetDeck to post to Facebook you will need to give permission for TweetDeck to update your status.
When you click on the name of a friend who is available in Facebook chat, or on the green online status indicator, you will open up a Facebook chat session.
This chat window is the standard Facebook chat window, you use it just as if you had opened it from the Facebook page. To start chatting, just click a friend’s name in the right hand column of the window and start chatting with them.
When you close the chat window you will return to TweetDeck.
I have found the flow of using Facebook via TweetDeck quite easy, and I am sure there are more updates to make this feature even better on the way.
You can the beta version of TweetDeck at tweetdeck.posterous.com
If you do not yet have a Facebook or Twitter account you can sign-up to both at
To get updates about TweetDeck follow @TweetDeck.
Remember, this version of TweetDeck is still in beta, so you may come across a few bugs until the official release is pushed to all users.
If you are new to TweetDeck you can get the Twitter How To Guide to using TweetDeck here.
Use the comments below to let me know how you get on with this awesome new feature, and if you have any suggestions, tweet them to @TweetDeck.
Finally, thanks to my good friend Diana for the quick Facebook update.
Have any of you with the beta seen the new options update?
More on that here tomorrow
TweetDeck sounds great, and I’ve been wanting to use it since mid-February. It won’t let me login. I’ve allowed it in Windows Firewall and tried most of the versions. TweetDeck support has never answered my numerous emails. They never reply to my Tweets. TweetDeck may be great, but their support is not.
You need to make an iPhone app! This is awesome!
@Katy… I so agree… Was just thinking the same thing… iPhone App… @TweetDeck Developers… We’re ready when you are…
i gust want to say some thing “great job”
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