Share other tweets on facebook

Question

I have a friend of mine that posts nice quotes on twitter. His tweets are then automatically posted also on his Facebook account.

Under his posts on facebook I don't have a share option like for common Facebook posts so I cannot share quotes with my FB friends (no one of them uses twitter)

Why there's no share option? Is there a workaround?

Answer 1

Facebook has designed apps to act this way

It's a long standing bug that has been this way for quite some time https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/164888633588257

You are going to have to click through to your friend's Twitter profile and grab the link

It should look like this

https://twitter.com/#!/Drake/status/195337215600111616

And appear on Facebook as,

Hopefully a better application will come around that can be clever with this bug.

Answer 2

Are you wanting ALL of his tweets to be posted to your Facebook profile?

If so, or if you want to only post tweets based on a keyword, check out ifttt.com (if this then that). You can automatically post across many different social platforms automatically.

You can get your friend's Twitter RSS timeline:

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

Where USER_ID is the Twitter id of the username you want to subscribe.

Simply input their timeline RSS into the RSS "this" on ifttt.com, then connect your Facebook profile in "that".

I use this method for multiple automated tasks.