How To Link Facebook To Twitter In 2020: A Work Around (That Works)

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Linking Your Facebook Page To Twitter (2020 Update)

Many of our readers have encountered issues trying to link these two popular platforms. The method for successfully getting the link between Twitter and Facebook to work has changed over the years, and unfortunately has been completely disabled this year. We have retained our old instructions below in the event the feature is ever reactivated. Meanwhile, we present you with our workaround (which we hope you’ll find could prove to be a more sustainable and effective solution anyways).

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Here’s a calendar view of some of our content posted via SEMRush so you can see it in action. The icons to the left of each post indicate which platform it will post to and the timestamp when it will post that day of the month (with the past dates in grey and green checkmarks showing that it is complete). Learn more about SEMRush in our in-depth review.

When scheduling a post, you will see a preview of the post and how it will appear on the various channels. Then after it posts, you’ll get analytics on how it performed. Here’s how the preview function looks so you can see the post will appear on Facebook and Twitter (along with the scheduling feature).

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Linking Your Facebook Page To Twitter (Old Method – Currently Disabled)

Prior to mid-2020, before Facebook disabled this feature, these were the steps that you took to link Facebook to Twitter. Again, they have since removed this feature, so these instructions are no longer valid. We are keeping them here for archival purposes and in case they re-activate one day.

Go to facebook.com/twitter and click on the “link to twitter” button. You can connect your personal profile (at the top) and/or any of your Facebook pages all from this page.

You must be logged in to the Twitter account you are trying to link.

From there it will take you to a prompt to authorize Facebook to use your account. If you are not logged in, you will need to enter your Twitter username and password first.

Once you click on “Authorize” it will redirect you back to Facebook where you see the following screen and can select what type of content you’d like to share by clicking on the boxes.

Here you can decide how much information you want to share with Twitter then click “save changes” and you’re all set! Now you’ll be able to simply post a status update in Facebook that will save you from having to login to both services and post two separate updates.

Since Twitter has a character limit, it will automatically truncate your post with an automatically created short URL (Example fb.me/XYC) that will link back to the original post on Facebook.

Linking Your Tweets To Facebook

Additionally, you can post your Tweets to your Facebook page by going to twitter.com/settings/applications however as of June 2015 when we last checked, this feature is experiencing technical issues.

Ready, Set, Post!

We hope that helps you in your quest to save yourself time and energy when posting to Facebook and Twitter at the same time. While the process has changed, the outcome is still the same. And using these third-party tools make your job even easier than doing it the old way. Learn more about Facebook best practices, including how to set up your own custom URL for your Facebook page.

What benefits do you find from posting to Twitter and Facebook at once?