Thursday, July 28, 2011

How to Connect Google+ to Twitter and Facebook

PCMag.Com - The trick to connecting the three social networks, for now, is daisy-chaining them in the right order.

Social networking fiends have been lamenting the lack of third-party apps on Google+, which, among other things, has made it impossible to synchronize Google+ with Twitter or Facebook.

When you synch Twitter to Facebook or vice versa, whatever you post on one account automatically repost to the other. You can implement special rules and tags so that not every single post reappears on the other site. Linking and syncing makes social media management way more efficient than manually updating each site.

But a Twitter management tool now makes it possible to connect all three accounts! The trick is that you have to connect them in the right order. Here's how.

How to Sync Google

Setting up the Connections

1. Go to ManageFlitter.com/plus to connect Google+ to Twitter.
2. Fill out the form that's provided.
a. It asks for your Google+ account URL, which you can retrieve by clicking on your profile picture on your own Google+ page in the upper right corner. The URL will start with "https://plus.google.com/" and will then have a string of numbers before ending in "/posts". Copy and paste that URL into the first ManageFlitter field.
b. It also asks for access to your Twitter account. Enter your Twitter username and password when prompted.
c. Optional: Enable advanced settings that let you use tags (i.e., only share Google+ posts including the tag #twt; add "G+" to the start of tweets to indicated they originally were posted to Google+; tweet when you start Google+ Hangout sessions, that is, multi-person video chats; and always include a link back to the original Google+ post).
3. Connect your Twitter account to automatically repost to Facebook.
a. Sign into Facebook and find the Twitter app page.
b. Allow Twitter to connect to Facebook. It may ask you to sign into Twitter if you're not already signed in.
c. Again, you'll have some options for enabling hashtags and rules for what should be automatically reposted from Twitter to Facebook.       More