Facebook is a bit of a bear to navigate sometimes, and can be confusing with private profiles, fan pages and groups; plus all the various apps and tools that can pull your Twitter tweets, blog posts and more into your various Facebook areas.

One question I’ve seen asked a lot lately is how to pull your Twitter tweets into your Facebook fan page, instead of it posting on your personal profile wall as a status update there. Good news: I’ve found an application that will post your tweets to your fan page!

Involver as created a few really nice Facebook applications, and one of them is their Twitter app which will post your tweets to your Facebook page.

Very easy to install and use.

To YOUR Success,

Traci Knoppe

P.S. Do you use a lot of applications at Facebook? If so, what are some of your favorites; or, what functions or features do you wish were available for your Facebook account?

Poor Twitter has had a rough week. Last week it was denial-of-service (DOS) attacks that caused Twitter to go down and is still causing issues.

Now the Koobface Internet Worm has reared it’s ugly head again. Koobface is the worm that sends out messages either via Twitter, Facebook or on other social networking sites using shortened URLs (which are very common on such sites) that redirect the user to a fake login page. The problem is that the user clicks the shortened URL and doesn’t check the browser address bar to see where they’ve landed to double-check that it’s where they thought they were going, and they just start typing in their personal information – thus giving it away to the bad guys.

However, in the case of Twitter, there is one way to protect yourself: TweetDeck. TweetDeck has the option to allow you to click a shortened URL and preview the full URL before you click through and visit the site.  Smart indeed!

This is easy to setup, just follow these simple steps:

1. Open TweetDeck
2. Log in, if you aren’t already
3. Click the settings icon, upper right corner
4. Under the General tab, tic the box next to “Show preview information for short URLs”
5. Click Save

That’s it. Now this will work in most cases. If you come upon a URL that does not reveal a full URL, then do not click through. Contact the person who sent the tweet before you click through to confirm that they sent it and have them DM you the full URL or have them send it to you again.

Even if you do click through a shortened URL and find yourself on a page and the web address doesn’t look right, simply close your browser and do not enter in your personal information. They can’t get what you do not give them.

Browse smart – browse safe.

Traci Knoppe

P.S. How do you use Twitter, do you use Twitter’s web site, a third-party application like TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop, People Browsr or something else?

Recently I changed my Twitter password. Normally this is a simple, straight-forward process. I change my password at Twitter, then for any other applications or web sites I use that also require access to my Twitter account, I update my Twitter password. Well, this is where things went nuts – TweetDeck flew the coop and wouldn’t let me change my password.

I started noticing tweets from others having the same issue. Oddly enough, this problem was only occurring on my laptop, not my desktop – so I bypassed the issue and used Seesmic Desktop on my laptop.  However, the problem was still there and I finally decided to tackle the issue.

First I uninstalled TweetDeck and reinstall, thinking perhaps it was a faulty file from a recent upgrade. That did not resolve the problem.

After more tinkering, I did find the solution, hopefully it will also work for those of you also having this problem.

The Fix When TweetDeck Won’t Let You Change Your Password

• Open TweetDeck
• Click Settings icon, upper right corner
• Click Accounts tab
• Click the account you need to change the password for, click Edit
• Type in your new password in the password field
• Click ‘Add New Account’
• Click Save

That’s it! This is what did it for me. It was that extra step of clicking the ‘Add New Account’ button that seemed to do it and allow me to actually Save my changes, where before it wouldn’t.

I’m fairly certain this is either something new with the latest version of TweetDeck, or a bug; but this got the job done for me and allowed me to save my new password.

Let me know if this resolves the problem for you.

To your success,

Traci Knoppe