Centralized Updates via Twitter

Because of the need to propagate updates to two different sets of people, your secure profile of “Core” friends and business contacts, and also your “Public” Fan Page, you’ll need a Twitter account. Obviously, anything entered in Twitter is going to be a public update, so you should never use Twitter for anything that is of a private nature or something you don’t want forwarded on.

My attitude towards this is if it isn’t game for Twitter, I probably also don’t want it posted in my private FaceBook profile or my Fan Page. If something is really important and of a sensitive nature, I expect people to have common sense and to call people individually on the phone, or use traditional forms of electronic communication, such as an e-Mail or a private FaceBook message.

If you think that you’ve got something to say that doesn’t belong on Twitter but can stay within your “Inner Circle” on FaceBook on your profile status, you can enter it into FaceBook directly. Got it? Great.

If you have a Twitter account already, good. If not, go to Twitter.com, sign up, and get one.  Once you’ve signed up, you’ll need the RSS feed for your update stream.

Because of the need to propagate updates to two different sets of people, your secure profile of “Core” friends and business contacts, and also your “Public” Fan Page, you’ll need a Twitter account. Obviously, anything entered in Twitter is going to be a public update, so you should never use Twitter for anything that is of a private nature or something you don’t want forwarded on.

My attitude towards this is if it isn’t game for Twitter, I probably also don’t want it posted in my private FaceBook profile or my Fan Page. If something is really important and of a sensitive nature, I expect people to have common sense and to call people individually on the phone, or use traditional forms of electronic communication, such as an e-Mail or a private FaceBook message.

If you think that you’ve got something to say that doesn’t belong on Twitter but can stay within your “Inner Circle” on FaceBook on your profile status, you can enter it into FaceBook directly. Got it? Great.

If you have a Twitter account already, good. If not, go to Twitter.com, sign up, and get one.  Once you’ve signed up, you’ll need the RSS feed for your update stream.

In my case, mine is located on http://twitter.com/mitulbhavsar, and if I click on the “RSS feed of mitulbhavsar’s tweets” link on the middle-right hand side of the page, I get this URL:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/6882462.rss

Your unique RSS feed will have a different number at the end, but copy this into a text file and save this for later, you’ll need it.

If you’re new to Twitter, you can enter status updates directly from the Twitter website, or you can use any number of Twitter clients for your smartphone, mobile Internet device or or your PC.

On the PC for Windows/Mac/Linux, I recommend TweetDeck or Seesmic. On the iPhone and iPad, I like to use Twittelator. On Android, my preference is for Twidroid. On RIM devices I used to use Twitter for BlackBerry.

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