Oh no – I Can’t Make Twitter Stop Posting on My Facebook Wall!
Posted by: | CommentsUnfortunately one of the pitfalls that a lot of social media users fall into – especially those who are kinda winging it, not really sure what they’re supposed to do or how to do it – is to over-automate.
You know what I mean. You read a blog post or get an email about some cool tool that will make something happen “automatically” for you in social media-land. It promises to save you a bunch of time and get a whole bunch more people listening to you.
So you dive in, set it up … and then forget all about it. Until a few days or a week later, when you realize that something horrible is now happening and you can’t remember or figure out how to undo it!!
Sound familiar?
One of the most common problems is that posts start appearing automatically on your Facebook wall. It might be from your Twitter feed, it might be from your blog – it might even be from some random third party.
Depending on the problem, there are of course different solutions. If you’re having a problem with Twitter automatically posting on your Facebook wall, this video solves the most common cause – the Twitter Facebook app.
If you like this video and want suggestions for GOOD ways to automate your social media profiles, you’ll want to check out my FREE DVD.
Promote your Facebook fan page with twitter syndication
Posted by: | CommentsPeople ask me all the time for strategies to promote their fan page. A great one is to syndicate your fan page content to Twitter – the tutorial video below walks you through the steps.
You do have a little bit of control over what kinds of content gets syndicated and what doesn’t. For example, you can de-select any one of five categories of content: status updates, photos, links, notes and events.
When it syndicates the post to your Twitter account, not only does it post the update itself, but it also includes a unique URL that goes to that post. From there, people can comment or click to go to your fan page.
This is also useful when you want to post an update that’s longer than 140 characters – which Twitter won’t allow you to do. When you use this technique, the Tweet will be the first 100 or so characters of your update, with a link where they can read the rest of the update.
