Comments on: Auto-feeding Twitter to your business Facebook page? Well, don’t.

By: The Rose McGrory team

The Rose McGrory team — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:02:05 +0000

It’s unlikely that Hootsuite is to blame, unless you’re deliberately scheduling your tweets to go out onto Facebook each time. Easiest way to stop this is revoke access to your Twitter account for all of the apps – go into Settings > Applications and remove everything, and then reauthorise your account with just Hootsuite or whichever app you want to use in future.
best – Kate

By: JJ Toner

JJ Toner — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:27:13 +0000

Hi Rose,

I was using TweetAdder and having problems, so I signed up for tweetdeck, Hootsuite and MarketMeSuite all in the same week. Now my tweets are flooding my facebook page and I can’t remember where I switched the option on. I think Hootsuite is the culprit, but can’t find the option to switch it off. Any ideas?

By: RoseMcGrory

RoseMcGrory — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:06:04 +0000

Hi Tracey – no problem at all, we like to help out.
No need to feel guilty, if you tell a few friends in need where to come for help with their social media then that’s payment in karma! Oh and they don’t quite need to be making that sort of money, either 😉

By: Tracey Clayton

Tracey Clayton — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:37:58 +0000

Your tweets are always interesting and relevant, I learn such a lot from you guys that I am beginning to feel guilty about all this free info! When I make my first £100,000 you will be the first to be taken on to deal with my social media!

Thank you

By: Louise

Louise — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:02:45 +0000

Very interesting – technology is a vehicle to assist communication? – ‘Phone’s and then answer machines – twitter and then automated tweets – maybe one of the reasons Skype is becoming so popular is because you do communicate directly with someone (until they invent a button to record……)? – hmmmmmmmmm (btw I always tweet personally at the time – very distracting though) – Louise (behind on my things to do)

By: Tina Mammoser

Tina Mammoser — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:58:14 +0000

I agree! Some tweets can be FBed but not all. I find HootSuite (not selling it, just started using it and liking) is helping me because you can choose which places to cross-post. So I can tweet away happily as the chatty artist I am but only cross-post to FB and/or LinkedIn with more relevent items.

By: RoseMcGrory

RoseMcGrory — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:37:16 +0000

Thanks Gary, glad you’re enjoying the blog!

By: Gary Murray

Gary Murray — Mon, 09 May 2011 08:36:11 +0000

Great Blog. I fell foul to autofeed when I started using Linked In and Twiiter and could see that people were getting annoyed. Now I am using these great tools to engage with people and have had some fantastic face to face meetings. I look forward to your next Blog.

Thanks Gary Murray

By: rosemcgrory

rosemcgrory — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:37:25 +0000

Awww Thanks Julie, we’re really glad you’re finding the blog interesting.
That’s a very good point about social media output suddenly becoming “out of sync” with big events – it’s possible too that the brands in question had pre-scheduled those tweets and then not realised how inappropriate they’d look after such a big change to sentiment. And as you say, the more platforms they’re syndicated too, the worse it gets…

By: Julie South

Julie South — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:13:21 +0000

Hi there (again!) – you write some FANTASTIC blogs – love reading them

Talking about the “automated” Tweet thing – a few months’ back here in New Zealand we had a major earthquake in Christchurch. Tragically hundreds lost their lives and we’re still reeling from the emotional (and financial!) shock of those quakes (which are ongoing by the way)…

As you can imagine, not long after word of the first fatal quake hit the airways the Tweets appearing were naturally full of shock, empathy, the desire to help and concern, etc. And then every now and again were the automated Tweets (from some very known brands!) advertising their latest end-of-season specials. It “jarred” with everything else that was going on around it and was oh-so obvious that it those companies were virtually disconnected from what was going on in the virtual world. It “cost” them a lot of reputation building as a result. If they’d had those same Tweets automated to their FB page… well… I don’t even want to go there!
Smiles!
Julie@halobiz.co.nz