Sync Your MySpace and Twitter Updates

In September of 2009, MySpace turned on two-way sync with Twitter so anything you post as your status on MySpace gets automatically posted to your Twitter account, and anything you tweet automatically shows up as a status on MySpace. You can also use this feature one-way (MySpace to Twitter, or Twitter to MySpace). This article will show you how.

Steps

 * 1)  Log in to your MySpace account and click on "My Account" in the upper right.
 * 2)  [[Image:Mptwitter_148.jpg|thumb|400px]]Click on the "Sync" link.
 * 3)  [[Image:First_905.jpg|thumb|400px]]Click on "Get Synced"
 * 4)  [[Image:Twoscreeny_771.jpg|thumb|400px]]Enter your Twitter user name and password, which you will be asked for if you're not logged into Twitter already, and click "Allow".
 * 5)  [[Image:Third_251.jpg|thumb|400px]]You should be taken back to the Sync page on Myspace. A box will appear on this page, asking you what you want to do. Going both ways are automatically checked. This is where you can choose your syncing to go one way only.
 * 6) *Keep in mind that if you choose to update your MySpace status from Twitter, that will also include retweets and responses to other Twitter followers, which your MySpace friends may not understand. If you want to avoid this, you'll either have to choose one-way syncing (MySpace to Twitter) or try the alternate method below.

Alternate Methods

 * 1) Use a site like ping.fm, which allows you to broadcast a single update to various social networking sites. The main benefit of doing this is that your MySpace friends won't see your Twitter replies and retweets. With ping.fm, however, you can't schedule updates in advance. For that, see the next step.
 * 2) Make an independent RSS feed (manually or through a blog) and use a program, like ping.fm, which will feed it to both your MySpace and Twitter accounts.

Tips

 * If a tweet has a link in it, whether it's shortened or not, MySpace will change it to use its own link shortener (lnk.ms) so you won't be able to track the clicks you get on MySpace through other shorteners like bit.ly.
 * Until October of 2009, whenever your MySpace status updates went to Twitter, a MySpace shortening link (lnk.ms) was also inserted, cutting into your 140 characters and linking directly to the individual MySpace update. Fortunately, this is no longer the case.

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