If you’ve been on Twitter for some time, you’ve probably built up a few close relationships over the platform.

Not necessarily the romantic kind of relationships—rather, a list of users that you communicate with on a fairly regular basis through @ replies, retweets and direct messages.

Unfortunately, many of these relationships don’t expand beyond the Twitter platform—including to another popular social media platform, Facebook.

Here are three reasons why you should consider adding your Twitter friends on Facebook.

• It deepens the relationship between you and the friended user.

A Twitter user can only get so much information across in a single tweet. With 140 characters, Twitter doesn’t give you the option to carry on a real conversation without limiting the total character count.

Adding your Twitter friends as friends on Facebook allows for you to really dig deep with a given user—with access to expanded profile information and lists of linked interests, you can learn more about him/her and interact on a frequent basis—perhaps even more than on just Twitter alone.

• You can keep up with shared links and status updates.

If you have a lot of followers on Twitter, updates can quickly be lost or get buried within the moving Twitter stream.

Interesting links and important updates are likely shared on Facebook as well, so a user improves his/her chances that you won’t miss an interesting update or link that you may have missed through using Twitter alone.

• Through Facebook’s “Mutual Friends” option, you can identify other Twitter users who are connected.

With no “mutual friends” option currently available on the Twitter web interface, you can identify which friends, if any, you have in common with another user.

In addition, you can identify users who you may want to follow on Twitter or add to your LinkedIn network.

Do you friend Twitter users on Facebook? Let me know in the comments.

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