WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Contributors and automatic social media updates http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/contributors-and-automatic-social-media-updates WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Contributors and automatic social media updates en Sat, 25 May 2013 03:34:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 raincoaster on "Contributors and automatic social media updates" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/contributors-and-automatic-social-media-updates#post-878595 Fri, 04 May 2012 13:18:47 +0000 raincoaster 878595@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The short answer is: you can't.

The long answer is: you shouldn't be using it yourself. Facebook, for example, automatically downgrades all autoposted material such as everything posted using Publicize. It appears on the wall of the person's account, but not in the news feeds of their friends, etc. And on Twitter, nothing says "amateur" like a post that is cut off halfway through and obviously roboposted. It takes only two seconds to post it to FB, Twitter, and G+ by hand, and it's the ONLY way to get a decent return on investment of time. Autoposting isn't worth doing.

]]> 404magazine on "Contributors and automatic social media updates" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/contributors-and-automatic-social-media-updates#post-878584 Fri, 04 May 2012 13:07:50 +0000 404magazine 878584@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi there,
For blog404.org, we have a set of editors who have social media (Facebook and Twitter) linked to our accounts so when we post, it gets automatically updated. We recently started accepting contributors, but we don't know how to get their posts to be automatically updated to Facebook and Twitter without giving them sensitive access to our social media. I'm sure there is a way around this since there are countless WordPress based blogs with contributors, I can't imagine they'd all have the password and admin access to social media.

Help?

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