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Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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To be clear, Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post _anything_ to a personal profile. More details: https://betanews.com/2018/08/02/twitter-facebook-crossposts-...

This includes most blog integrations, eg. being able to configure Wordpress to post a plug on your personal FB when you write something in your blog.

Yup. I had DlvrIt posting my blog posts to Facebook, and now that doesn't work.

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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post #10

To be clear, Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post _anything_ to a personal profile. More details: https://betanews.com/2018/08/02/twitter-facebook-crossposts-...

Except for Instagram posts, presumably?

Yup, Instagram still works.

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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To be clear, Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post _anything_ to a personal profile. More details: https://betanews.com/2018/08/02/twitter-facebook-crossposts-...

I wonder what the reasoning behind this is. It seems that it would reduce the amount of content on Facebook.

Perhaps the thought is that people will go and post directly to Facebook instead? Or it could be a way of reducing noice/spam.

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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post #14

On related note, Python's mechanize and requests libraries will probably soar in popularity.

I haven't tried to, but I think you'll need a software that can interpret js to interact with FB. Like webdriver, or headless chrome.

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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I exclusively use FB, so I had automated posting of tweets (from my kids schools) to FB so I could stay in the loop.

Also at work we Tweeted Facebook activity.

I'll have to use Twitter now instead of just using Facebook. Is the hope from Facebook that people will just not bother with Twitter?

Why haven't Facebook notified us wrt business use that Tweets will no longer be pulled in?

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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post #14

On related note, Python's mechanize and requests libraries will probably soar in popularity.

I haven't tried to, but I think you'll need a software that can interpret js to interact with FB. Like webdriver, or headless chrome.

You could use https://mbasic.facebook.com/ which doesn't use any JavaScript (there is actually no script tags in the page source).

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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post #14

On related note, Python's mechanize and requests libraries will probably soar in popularity.

I haven't tried to, but I think you'll need a software that can interpret js to interact with FB. Like webdriver, or headless chrome.

the selenium-requests package offers a nice integration of this.

Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages

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To be clear, Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post _anything_ to a personal profile. More details: https://betanews.com/2018/08/02/twitter-facebook-crossposts-...

I wonder what the reasoning behind this is. It seems that it would reduce the amount of content on Facebook. Perhaps the thought is that people will go and post directly to Facebook instead? Or it could be a way of reducing noice/spam.

Apparently it's part of further locking down their API (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/01/psa-cross-posting-tweets-t...) so that random apps that have been given permission to post by default can no longer do so.

The way I read it, people who deliberately want to cross-post tweets are essentially collateral damage.

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