Autopost Your Stories To Facebook And Twitter Using IFTT

Does that happen to you a lot? You post a new story on Medium and then forget to share it on Twitter and Facebook? With the free web service “If This Than That,” this is a thing of the past.

What is “If This Than That”?

“If This Than That” (called IFTT in the following text) connects hundreds of services like Google Calendar, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and many more with each other with so-called Apps.

The idea: Whenever a particular action is performed in service A, something specific happens in service B.

The idea behind it is evident: You only have to execute one action, and it automatically triggers any number of other activities elsewhere. You only have to log into a service and perform an action to trigger different responses in other services automatically.

For a full description of what IFTT is, click here. https://help.ifttt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115010325748-What-is-IFTTT-

IFTT and Medium

IFTT offers dozens of apps that connect Medium with other services. You can automatically save favorite articles in Evernote, create short links with Bitly, have a Medium piece sent to your Kindle reader, and more.

In this article, we’ll look at how you can automatically tweet your newly published articles to Twitter and post them to a Facebook page at the same time without having to go to any of these services.

I will limit myself to these two actions because they are relevant to the vast majority of medium authors. Anyone who writes seriously on Medium should have accounts on Facebook and Twitter to make their articles available to a broader audience.

Click here for a complete list of IFTT apps for Medium: https://ifttt.com/medium

Auto tweet your articles on Twitter

If you do not have an IFTT account, register now. Registration is free and very easy.

Once you have registered, enter the keyword Medium in the search to discover the available apps for this service. You will find that there are many different apps for the same service.

I use the app “Automatically tweet out your new Medium Posts” to work with Twitter.

Click on the app and follow the instructions. You must allow the app to access your Twitter account.

Once this is done, the app will be active and will ensure that your new medium stories are posted on your Twitter profile as soon as you click on “publish.”

The only disadvantage is that your article will be posted without hashtags. It is pure cross-posting. On Twitter, only the title of your story, a link, and a thumbnail appear. If you want to use hashtags, you have to log in to Twitter and edit your tweet manually.

But I don’t think this disadvantage is severe because I only use IFTT to post the new article once when it is new.

Later I add the article with hashtags in my Hootsuite account and define a repetition interval. A new article does not have to be posted immediately in Hootsuite because I exchange the links featured there every few weeks.

You can’t tweet all articles every day anyway; otherwise, you would overstrain your followers.

Autopost your new articles on a Facebook page

No app allows you to automatically post your medium stories in the feed of your personal Facebook account.

You need a Facebook page. If you don’t already have a Facebook Page, or your stories don’t match the page you already have, you should create a new Facebook Page dedicated exclusively to sharing your medium stories.

Again, there are many IFTT apps that all do more or less the same thing.

I use an app called “Share Medium Stories that you publish on a Facebook page.”

You have to allow this app to use your Facebook account first. Then you select the page where your stories should be posted.

You must manage this page. You can’t have your stories automatically posted on other people’s pages.

Once you have authorized the app, you don’t have to worry about anything. From now on, every new medium story you create will automatically appear on your Facebook page and can be found there by other users.

Tip: If you set up a new page for your story, you have to make it public. Your page needs followers because otherwise, nobody will see your new stories.

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