I’m a big fan of Ping.fm.
Ping .fm allows you to post to multiple social networks. I almost never log in to my twitter account or even my Facebook account. I simply use the ping.fm dashboard and ping or make posts to all of my social nyetworks including Friendfeed, Linedin, Mashable, Delicious, etc.
Ping.Fm Dashboard
You can access all of my social networks feeds at http://unhub.com/GregNemer
See this post for a video on how I use UnHub to share twitter to multiple presence points using the website link.
I also use another ping.fm tool that is really handy. It is actually a plugin called, you guessed it, PingFm WordPress plugin ( You can also use the PingPressFm plugin which does the same thing) This wordpress plugin allows me to send my blog post to all of the social networks that I have set up in ping.fm
Problem- I have 2 Twitter Accounts
Ok, So I’m using Ping,fm and I’m really happy with it. But I have 2 twitter accounts. A lot of people will tell you that there is no need to have 2 accounts but I actually have 2 of them.
The reason I have 2 accounts is because I constantly monitor the people that I am most interested in following on my @purposemission twitter account using twitterfox. Twitterfox is a firefox extension for twitter.
Although I also monitor @gregnemer on twitterfox I have set @gregnemer up to autofollow everyone who follows me and things seem to get crowded. I know I could be using tweetdeck or Seesmic Desktop, but for right now this is the way I prefer to go, at least until I get another monitor set-up to use exclusively for monitoring my social networks using the desktop programs.
Here’s the problem. Ping.fm doesn’t allow you to add more than one twiiter account.
I’m sure this is a temporary problem since Adam and Sean at Ping.fm are constantly updating the service applications, but for now it is a viable problem.
Problem Solved
Adam and Sean just added access to another service application to Ping.fm that it really neat. It’s called Shoutem and you can use it to construct your very own micro blogging community. Here’s my ShoutEm.
Share To Twitter From Shoutem
Shout em has a lot of great features but there is one feature that really caught my attention. You can forward Shout em to Twitter and even to Facebook.
That solved my problem of how to post into both twitter accounts.
Here’s what I did to make posts to all for my social networks including 2 different twitter accounts for my Internet Business With Purpose blog:
- Setup my blog to post to ping.fm using the Ping.fm plugin
- Set up Ping.fm to post to all of my social networks
- Ping,fm makes posts to @purposemission
- Ping.fm makes post to Shoutem.com
- Setup Shoutem to share to my twitter account @gregnemer (under admin connect to)
Setting up my Shoutem to share to Twitter
Now using the Ping.fm dashboard I simply make posts to all of my social networks.
Is there a simpler solution?
Shoutem also allow you to share to ping.fm so I guess we could turn the whole process around and post from shoutem, but I don’t wont to confuse you anymore than I have already.
UPDATE: I’m now using HootSuite.com because it allows you to post and manage unlimited accounts.
If you know of a better way to set up ping.fm to make posts to more than one twitter account please let me know in the comments form below.
Or… if you think this is a good solution please let me know too so that I wont think that I’m off my rocker.
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Hey there Brother,
It’s very good to hear from you. I thank you for the the info.
Great post. Of course, I need more. A client wants to be able to post to (work twitter & Facebook work BizPage) or (hobby twitter & Facebook hobby BizPage).
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Thanks Dave,
Let me know if you discover a way to post to more accounts.
Justin,
You’re information is exactly what I was looking for. I knew I wasn’t the only person trying to post to more than one twitter account using P.ing.fm
Thanks so much for the excellent advice.
A much easier way to do this (I currently use Shout’em as well, so I wasn’t able to hijack that account as my “2nd twitter account”).
First, setup Ping.fm to post to your first Twitter account directly.
Ping.fm lets you post to YouAre.com. Setup an account there to use for posting to your second Twitter account:
1. Setup Ping.fm to post to YouAre.com after creating a YouAre account.
2. Grab the RSS feed from your YouAre account and go to PingVine.com
3. Choose the PingVine Twitter option, and plug in the YouAre RSS feed to post to your second Twitter account.
Now, everytime you update Ping.fm it will post to YouAre.com and your first Twitter, and YouAre.com will post to your second Twitter account via PingVine.
Note: PingVine can take up to 60 seconds to post to Twitter, depending on what settings you chose.
You could theoretically do this with any service Ping.fm posts to as long as it has an external RSS feed that you can plug into PingVine.com or Twitterfeed.com (twitterfeed only posts every 30 minutes though).
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Hi there,
I’m the author of the WordPress plugin that receives updates from Ping.fm and injects them into your blog. I just wanted to clarify that, while also a good plugin, PingPressFM essentially does the exact opposite of what my plugin does. Instead of posting from Ping.fm, you post from your blog, which in turn gets sent to Ping.fm via the API.
Subtle difference, but there you have it.
Matt
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Hi Matt,
Thanks for the clarification.
I like your plugin and am posting this link here to make it easy for my readers to find it-
http://mattjacob.com/pingfm-wordpress-plugin
Thanks again for the very useful plugin.