I’ve been a Facebook addict for some time, and I’ve recently got back into using Twitter. I think my resurgent interest in Twitter has arisen from it breaking a critical mass among my more geeky friends. It also makes me feel popular, as I’ve one from getting one or two text messages a day, to dozens. Yes, mock me if you must…

Twittersync is a cool Facebook application, which allows you to update your Facebook status from Twitter. It’s much better than the official Twitter Facebook application which prepends your status update with ‘is twittering’.

Twittersync lets you filter which of your tweets make it through to Facebook. I have created a little regular expression that looks for tweets that begin with the verbs I use most often in my status updates and only updates my Facebook status with those tweets. It means that other tweets, particularly those of a more micro-blogging style, only appear in Twitter and don’t mess up my Facebook status.

Here’s what my regular expression looks like:

^(?!(is|has|was|likes|would|should|wants|had|thinks)\s)

Don’t forget to tick the ‘is regexp’ checkbox.

Oh, and does anyone know where to get one of those t-shirts? Mine’s a medium, please.

Photo: Niall Kennedy on Flickr. Used under licence.