IFTTT stands for If This, Then That, and the name is practically self-explanatory. If one of the several triggers you setup happens, then the service activates whatever multiple commands you designate
When I publish a post on Hobo, ideally I want it to automatically be shared to the Hobo Facebook page, Linkedin, Google Plus and Twitter profiles. If you haven’t heard about it, ifttt.com is very useful. FREE, too.
Ifttt has been about for a while, is a joy to use, easy, and can actually automate a lot of other social services, not mentioned in this post – and potentially save you loads of time:
- unfortunately no Google+ option as yet (unless there is a workaround I don’t know yet).
See here for more.
And it worked – seamlessly. Now to automate the rest of it.
This has just made my life so much easier. I’ve had my RSS forwarding to Twitter but I never knew it could send to everything else too.
I found this service five or six months ago, and I created some tasks that triggered a text message to my phone… And it just stopped working :(
What were you up to? :)
I was trying to get a message every time someone contacted me via the form in my site, trying to achieve better customer support I think Bah, back to the old way of checking mail every morning
Good idea – you might just need to reauthorise your social media accounts? I know PING.fm had similar issues and stopped working after a period – to be fair I hadnt logged in and it was on automatic pilot.
It did not involve social media just plain ol’ gmail. Someone contacted me via my site, then gmail grabbed that email and when ifttt system checked my inbox it sent me a sms, but I stop receiving those alerts Not even for my custom birthday reminders haha I guess theres some kind of problem sending sms to mexico :S
Just out of curiosity, when publishing the same posts on the various platforms, is that not considered as content duplication by Google? Thanks!
Let Google sort that out – if you do publish to different places remember and ensure you are linking back to the original document. Naturally – you want your original post to rank :)
Does this still work with Facebook? They cut off RSS feeds recently for posting to your profile from your blog.
yes i did it earlier
Google workaround? yes, there is. use this to create an RSS feed from your Plus posts http://zipl.us Then use this IFTTT recipe http://ifttt.com/recipes/16827
That’s a very cool find Shaun. It is strange though that they don’t have any social media sharing on their own page, only email invite!
Been using this for the past few months, I use it for saving favourited tweets and starred google reader items to evernote. It can also copy any photos you Favourite in instagram to your dropbox. Theres loads of useful stuff in the recipes section
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