I recently tried an experiment. Before I explain, here’s some background.
I post my Facebook page posts to Twitter. Not so long ago, I wondered to myself “What would happen if I auto posted my Tweets to Facebook at the same time that the reverse was true? Would it create a sort of infinite social loop?”
So I tried. Arranged it so my Tweets would auto-post to Facebook, and that my Facebook posts would auto-post to Twitter.
You would think that it would bring the system to a screeching halt. It didn’t. It didn’t do anything. It seems auto posting rules don’t apply to items that have been auto posted.
Segue. It’s 2012, and I’m tired of dealing with Facebook’s auto posting to Twitter. It’s fine in some circumstances, but I end up deleting half or more of my auto-posted Tweets because I don’t want to phrase things the same way on Twitter.
So auto-posting is fine, if you’re almost exclusively on one or the other (my friend Don Power is on Facebook so infrequently, if he didn’t auto-post from Twitter he likely wouldn’t post at all), but if you want to be on both and you like both, then I think it’s wise to commit and be on both.
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