{"id":352,"date":"2007-12-04T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/how-and-why-i-twitter-part-3\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:41:54","slug":"how-and-why-i-twitter-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/how-and-why-i-twitter-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How and why I Twitter: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, to the mechanics of it all. I mentioned using Facebook as well as Twitter. I also access them from my Blackberry (cell phone) as well as my computer. I’m the sort of lazy person who will go to a lot of effort up front to make things easier for myself down the line. I wanted to make it so that I could read and write status updates in only one service. And that’s how it works – very simple and efficient. Along the way, the setup got kind of complicated, though. Here’s how it looks (click for a larger version):<\/p>\n

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Basically, I enter twitters using my computer or Blackberry. They are then automatically synchronized with my Facebook status as well as sent to my blog sidebar (so that my friends can use their method of choice to keep up with me). Going the other direction, I get twitters from my Twitter friends on Twitter, obviously. I get my Facebook friends’ statuses by piping them into a new Twitter user I created, who I “follow” with Twitter, which puts the Facebook people right in the same list as everyone else. (This Twitter user is private and locked, so I’m not exposing anything publicly.)<\/p>\n

I know it looks like spaghetti, but I diagrammed it in case anyone else is interested in setting it up the same way. If you’d like more information, leave a comment with your question. Here are links to the intermediate services I currently use:<\/p>\n