Facebook/ Twitter integration? (5 posts)

  • Hi again :)

    I’m just wondering if anyone has any experience with running a Facebook Page and Twitter account for a business/ company and what your strategy is? How “integrated” are the accounts? Do you post completely different things or link them to each other? I’m interested in hearing your results ;)
    If you want to see what we’re working with; here is our FB and Twitter pages:

    https://www.facebook.com/Statricks
    https://twitter.com/#!/Statricks
    Have a good week-end!

  • This always varies, depending on the type of company, the kind of marketing strategy you’re running, and a few other things.

    In general, I suggest that you should avoid posting exactly the same content on both platforms. Some of your posts would unavoidably be the same, but you should follow a different strategy on each social site.

    Most of your posts must be unique to the platform where they appear. Otherwise, your fans have no reason to follow you on both FB and twitter. They ‘ll just connect with you on one of the two, which means you have less people to potentially engage with your posts.

    Hope this helps as a general guide. Good luck! :-)

  • Kyros Vogiatzoglou Thank you! That was great advice, and generally what I’ve been thinking. You are totally right that there is no point in liking something on Facebook and follow on Twitter if it is identical content. I also think that people/ pages that have their Twitter connected to post automatically on Facebook can seem a little “spamming”. 

    Very Helpful – Thanks!

  • @beatesteinveg I manage multiple different brands across Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Foursquare. In general I will mirror some posts across all four but overall I also go in to generate ORIGINAL/Organic postings that do not link across all of them. Many followers are on more than one platform and I want to entice them to become accustomed to checking our updates on more than one of our platforms. I do not use the “auto post” function of Twitter for any of the pages as I agree it feels “spammy.” If I plan to post the same message to multiple networks I schedule through Hootsuite so they all blast at once with the same content, but again this is on a limited basis. 

  • Alexandra Briggs Thanks for those great advices! This is exactly what I’ve been thinking is best, and I’ll try to stick to your “plan”

    Happy marketing!


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