Selective Twitter updates through the #fb hashtag.

Ok... I've gotta make a blog post about this because it's cooler than snot, totally useful, and not very well-answered in the google searches.

I've been noticing the #fb hashtag in occasional twitter messages. I figured it probably stood for facebook, but the posts had nothing to do with facebook. What gives?

Well, as it turns out, if you add the Selective Twitter application on Facebook, you can use the #fb hashtag to choose the twitter updates that you'd like posted to facebook as well. It takes about one step and a couple of confirmation clicks. Add the application, tell it your twitter username, give it permission to post status updates, and voila! You can #fb away with your tweets that you want posted to facebook, and leave it out for your twitter-only followers.

This is a huge improvement to the previous Twitter application, which essentially posted every update with exceptions of stuff that started with @replies. I used that for quite a while, but found myself limiting my tweets since some of the things I wanted to share wouldn't make sense on facebook, or because I liked the status I had on facebook at the time. It was tough to participate in twitter conversations, so I disabled it. I'd expect that the makers of the twitter app will add similar functionality before long.