For those who miss the functionality, you can use IFTTT for this: https://ifttt.com/search/query/facebook
I use it to post pictures to twitter whenever I post to instagram, but there's a lot of nice facebook twitter functionality too.
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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Good - if you don't like/use Facebook. For people who like/use it (and there are many), this is a very sad day.
What the walled garden giveth, it taketh away. Build on someone's platform? Depend on it exclusively? Gonna have a bad time. You would think folks would learn by now.
The real problem is that if 80% of your audience is in the walled garden, and no more than 10% of your audience is on any one of the many other alternatives, you're kind of stuck if you want to reach as many of them as possible easily.
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Presumably people wanting to post links to their personal blog can still open up Facebook in a new tab and Ctrl-V the link in themselves, which will take them all of about 10 seconds. Seems a small price to pay if it cuts down the ridiculous amount of botspam on the platform.
This can - and is - used to argue against anything that enables users to do more. This thinking is part of the reason why computing for regular people has only fraction of the utility it could have.
Yes. Following that idea to its logical conclusion would mean getting rid of computers entirely.
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#84I'm surprised at the almost universal outrage over this. I assumed this was in response to the whole election interference campaign and related issues, i.e. preventing bots from blasting out content and predetermined times or in response to specific keywords in the news, things like that. So this seems like a step in the direction of ensuring actual humans are doing these things (or at least make it slightly more dif…
Perhaps, but anything that can no longer be done with a bot can (and will) be done by hordes of Chinese or Indian, etc., people working for pennies an hour.
Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
#85I'm surprised at the almost universal outrage over this. I assumed this was in response to the whole election interference campaign and related issues, i.e. preventing bots from blasting out content and predetermined times or in response to specific keywords in the news, things like that. So this seems like a step in the direction of ensuring actual humans are doing these things (or at least make it slightly more dif…
Perhaps, but anything that can no longer be done with a bot can (and will) be done by hordes of Chinese or Indian, etc., people working for pennies an hour.
Unless FaceBook is going to introduce CAPTCHAs for all submissions, bots will still be able to post just fine with a few tweaks.
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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.
Good! This means more open distribution methods (email) will be given priority again. I don't want Facebook, nor Twitter. Just take my email address and send me your content, or offer an RSS feed. EDIT: Anyone know if this kills Buffer and other social feed managers?
"This means more open distribution methods (email) will be given priority again."
While that would be nice, I'm not holding my breath.
Re: Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
#87I'm surprised at the almost universal outrage over this. I assumed this was in response to the whole election interference campaign and related issues, i.e. preventing bots from blasting out content and predetermined times or in response to specific keywords in the news, things like that. So this seems like a step in the direction of ensuring actual humans are doing these things (or at least make it slightly more dif…
I used to use this feature. It meant that I didn't have to log in to Facebook to re-post the thing I already posted on Twitter. If I still used this feature, I'd be upset that Facebook just took a step to make my life a little bit harder. In general, I care more about my own convenience than some incremental step against bots that probably won't noticeably impact my experience on the site.
I'm in the same boat. It would apprear they realized that they are loosing advertizing eyeballs. Just checked, this also affects Buffer¹.
Well, if they are making a push to lock people into their platform, this might make me back off further.
¹https://faq.buffer.com/article/985-publish-facebook-profiles
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Apps exfiltrating is one problem. Bots posing as real people to rile up racial/political/etc. tensions is another, and this approach helps a bit there.
This won't help much. Evil Enemies of Freedom and US Way of Life will continue to hire low-paid workers in poor countries to post manually, with or without help of whatever Selenium/mbasic.facebook.com automation someone will promptly create.
Yes, of course it can still be done manually, but that introduces magnitudes more friction to their operations. It's no longer "post once, publish everywhere" as far as FB is concerned.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps, but anything that can no longer be done with a bot can (and will) be done by hordes of Chinese or Indian, etc., people working for pennies an hour.
Unless FaceBook is going to introduce CAPTCHAs for all submissions, bots will still be able to post just fine with a few tweaks.
CAPTCHAs are easily gamed too. Just throw whatever CAPTCHA you're trying to solve on a porn website and once someone fills it out simply have the bot copy over the response. This has been done for some time now.