I favorited a video the other day, and it told me CLICK HERE TO TRY OUT THIS COOL NEW FEATURE WHERE YOU CAN HAVE US AUTO TWEET STUFF OR W/E  (in fewer words).  I did it and it worked and it’s rad.  I set it up so that whenever I favorite a video it tweets it, which in turn then updates my facebook status.  Lucky for you all!  I tend to favorite most of the weird/rad videos I see, but lately I haven’t had the time or desire to regurgitate them all to you.  I don’t get to add my WITTY COMMENTARY, but you get to see the oddity.  This is a happy enough medium.

Then a bunch of people asked me how to make it do it, and I realized I didn’t know how to get to those settings ‘manually..’  I looked around in my personal settings and couldn’t find it.

Just now I randomly stumbled upon it, trying to walk down a different line of logic.

If you want to configure your YouTube account to auto-update status stuff on other sites or social networks or whatever, do this:

• Make sure you’re logged in
• Go to your own user page. i.e. http://www.youtube.com/user/evilzug
• On the left-hand column, find the section headed “Recent Activity”
• Click on “Privacy Settings”
• GET TO LINKIN’ YOUR ACCOUNTS!

Now here is where I see the info that I can update and edit.  Obviously I’m not sure what it looks like if you go here without having set it up, so let me know if it doesn’t work or you see something else.

FYI, this service is very much not instant.  It takes a while for it to get around to your Twitter or whatever, so don’t go refresh happy.  Just do it knowing it will be shared!