Import Blog Output Twitter

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 | Marketing Apps

By extending your marketing reach across more and more social networks, the first concern is time. Posting the same content across multiple sites, such as your blog, Twitter, and Facebook, can be very time-consuming. Fortunately, a recent trend in social media is the ability to syndicate content across networks to make publishing more convenient. Post your news in one place, and it gets published on multiple sites. As I already mentioned, several blog sites like Tumblr.com and Posterous.com enable users to autoupdate Twitter and Facebook with links to their new blog posts. Facebook also offers a way to do this with its own Import a Blog feature.

Want your new blog posts to automatically be published on your FaceBook Page? Just follow these steps. From your Facebook Page's profile, select the Notes tab. On the right side of the screen, you should see the gray Notes Settings box, as shown in Figure 8-20. If Notes Settings is not visible, then you may need to post at least one note on your page for that Notes Settings box to appear.

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Figure 8-20. Select the Notes tab on your Facebook Page, and then click the Import a Blog link in the Notes Settings box in the right column.

Under Notes Settings, click the Import a Blog link. You'll be prompted to enter your blog's RSS feed URL (see Figure 8-21). Once submitted, Facebook will automatically post your new blog entries to your Facebook Page's notes. Although you can easily remove any imported notes, you won't be able to edit them. If you want the flexibility to edit a particular note, you should manually post that note to Facebook yourself to retain editing access.

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Figure 8-21. Submit your blog's RSS feed URL to autoimport blog posts into Facebook as notes.

If you want your Facebook status updates to be automatically posted on Twitter, Facebook now offers support for that (see Figure 8-22). Since tracking the click-through statistics of your links is always important, if you activate that feature, be sure to still generate your own shortened URLs from your Bit.ly account for the external links to your web site or the iTunes App Store included in your status updates.

In reverse, you can also publish your tweets as status updates on your Facebook Page by installing Andy Young's handy Facebook application Selective Twitter Status at http://www.facebook.com/selectivetwitter. This application is much more powerful than importing your Twitter RSS feed as a blog because it allows you to choose which specific tweets get posted on your Facebook Page by marking them with the special #fb hashtag. This prevents nonbusiness tweets from accidentally sneaking into your company's Facebook Page. For the Selective Twitter Status application to work, your Facebook Page updates must not be protected.

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