Somebody’s got to win. Somebody’s got to lose. In the current wars between sharing social media across platforms, the loser is often you – the user.
First, LinkedIn stopped sharing tweets on user profiles in order to comply with Twitter’s API rules, which meant no more streaming of Twitter posts within your LinkedIn profile.
Then, there was the feud between Twitter and Instagram and more recently Facebook and Vine.
A few days ago I read an article on Business Insider detailing how TweetDeck was discontinuing support for their Facebook integration which means that TweekDeck users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts.
Won’t somebody please play nice?! It’s making the word “share” all the more difficult.
I use Hootsuite (similar to TweetDeck ) on a regular basis. This social media management system allows me to share content across multiple social media accounts. What’s going to happen when one of my profiles is cut off from Hootsuite?
To read more about this drama and how it could affect your social media strategy, visit the blog from Ryan Holmes, the CEO of Hootsuite – “Why Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Put Up Roadblocks to Each Others’ Content.” It’s a good informational article that explains the “Whys” and how to fix it. http://www.businessinsider.com/fragmentation-in-the-social-media-war-2013-4