There are things that make sense in a Twitter timeline that don’t make as much sense in Facebook’s news feed that can lead to your Facebook friends being annoyed or even confused. These things include @replies, #hastags, retweets, and links in your status updates. Follow these steps to integrate Twitter and Facebook and reduce the chances your friends will hide you from their news feed.

If you have the official Twitter Facebook application installed, remove it now.

Install yakket. Yakket will allow you to add filters to prevent tweets that match a certain criteria from updating your Facebook status.

Follow yakket’s instructions for configuring the app. Once that is done and working, pay special attention to the following set of instructions.

• Step 2

  • Add the following keywords, via, rt, http://, #

• Step 3

  • Select, “Sync Tweets to Facebook UNLESS I use my keyword(s)”

• Step 4

  • Select, Do not post tweets containing @
  • Select, Do not post retweets
  • Select, Do not strip hash tags from my tweets (if your keyword is a hash tag, yakket will still strip the keyword hash)

Once that is all done you should be all set. I can’t promise you won’t annoy your friends anymore, but at least it won’t be because you use Twitter to update your status.

What about my links?

Links are ugly in a Facebook status update, use Facebook’s attach feature to share links. It adds a nice preview of the website and you can add your thoughts about it without mucking up your status with a link.

How about sharing my Foursquare or Gowalla or {insert app here} updates?

Any website or app worth their salt will offer Facebook connectivity so you can share your activity in a more native fashion. For instance, when I check in on Foursquare it posts a link, my status update and a thumbnail of the location.