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:
- 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.
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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