Tuesday 28 June 2011

Connecting BlogPress, Twitter and Facebook

Finally, a real post!

BlogPress has the ability to publish to Facebook and Twitter natively (i.e. in-app), but it's a pain as Facebook seems to demand you enter your username and password every time. So, there's a nice, simple workaround (which will be even nicer when iOS5 ships, as it has Twitter integration built right in!)

For now, within Twitter simply go to the settings and link your Twitter account to your Facebook account.

Then, in Facebook, allow the Twitter app to publish to your wall.

And finally, in BlogPress simply publish to both Blogger (or whichever blog you use) and Twitter. Don't also publish to FB as the steps above will do this for you (although, if you DO post to FB as well, the worst that will happen is that you link to your blog will appear twice; once from BlogPress and once from Twitter).

Incidentally, it doesn't seem possible to post from FB to Twitter any more as FB disabled this some time in 2010 from what (admittedly sparse) research I have done.

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