Facebook has long been one of the best places to connect with family and friends and update what you are doing. Now, new tools and communities have grown, such as Twitter, and you may want to update your friends on those networks as well. It has become simply too difficult to manage all this from Facebook, that is until now. Today we’re announcing SocialToo Status.
SocialToo Status makes Facebook your central hub for posting updates to the networks you belong to. Via a simple app you install on your Facebook profile and home page, you can now use your existing status update box (or “Publisher”) in Facebook to share your updates to Twitter, any Facebook Fan Page you manage, and even your own personal wall – on a post-by-post basis. This new tool enables you to control who sees your updates, when you want, for every single status update you publish to Facebook.
When you publish via SocialToo Status, your updates appear in your personal stream, along with a link to each destination we also sent the status update to. This helps promote your other Facebook Pages and Twitter account, and gives others a sense of whom else you are speaking to. The little green SocialToo quote icon with each post also helps your status updates stand out – we do no promotion of SocialToo in your updates so it looks just like a normal status update. Our goal is to do all we can to help promote discussion for each post you publish, and at the same time give you the control in a single interface to tell where those updates end up. We think that’s pretty powerful!
Here’s how you get started – it’s actually quite simple:
- Go to http://socialtoo.com and click on the “Facebook App” link in the upper-right corner – you’ll want to hit “allow” on the prompts it asks you so we can properly publish status updates to your stream.
- Once the app is added to your account, you’ll notice on both your home page and profile page (you can update from either location) a new green SocialToo Status quote icon in the “attachments” section. You’ll probably have to hit the down “more” arrow to get to it. The more you use it, the more likely it will appear outside that drop down in the future!
- Click on the green quote icon, and a new SocialToo Status-branded Publisher will appear. Congrats – you’re all set up!
If you have not yet associated your Twitter account, a “sign in with Twitter” button will show up in the new SocialToo Status Publisher. You’ll want to click on that and associate the Twitter account to publish to from Facebook. It will only go to this account when you check the box (you’ll see this in a bit). Also, if you want to publish to the Facebook Pages you administer, just go to the link in the new publisher box that it prompts you with, and approve each Page you want to publish to.
Now, every time you send an update to Facebook, click on the little SocialToo Status green chat icon, select Twitter and/or the Facebook Pages you want it to go to (or none of them), and it will go to each one you select. The power of Facebook Status updates are in your hands now with SocialToo Status. Let us know what you think!
You can see the full howto with screenshots at http://apps.facebook.com/socialtoo/status. This is only the beginning!
