diff --git a/lib/facebookutil.php b/lib/facebookutil.php
index 4d0df797be..5eb9534b16 100644
--- a/lib/facebookutil.php
+++ b/lib/facebookutil.php
@@ -108,11 +108,11 @@ function facebookBroadcastNotice($notice)
 {
     $facebook = getFacebook();
     $flink = Foreign_link::getByUserID($notice->profile_id, FACEBOOK_SERVICE);
-    $fbuid = $flink->foreign_id;
 
     if (isFacebookBound($notice, $flink)) {
 
         $status = null;
+        $fbuid = $flink->foreign_id;
 
         // Get the status 'verb' (prefix) the user has set
         try {
diff --git a/lib/twitter.php b/lib/twitter.php
index 3ec082686a..d5eba084b3 100644
--- a/lib/twitter.php
+++ b/lib/twitter.php
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ function broadcast_twitter($notice)
 
     // XXX: Not sure WHERE to check whether a notice should go to
     // Twitter. Should we even put in the queue if it shouldn't? --Zach
-    if (!is_null($flink) && is_twitter_bound($notice, $flink)) {
+    if (is_twitter_bound($notice, $flink)) {
 
         $fuser = $flink->getForeignUser();
         $twitter_user = $fuser->nickname;