Twitter Tips: Posting to Multiple Social Networks

It’s becoming increasingly rare these days to find anyone who can make do with just a single social network. Most of us have two or three or more groups of online friends that we pester with status updates, but logging in to each site and firing off a message just gets too time-consuming. 

Fortunately, the world’s programmers must also be social butterflies because they’ve come up with a few useful solutions that let you post a status update (and sometimes a photo or video, too) to multiple social networks.

Here are a few examples:

  

1: HelloTxt  (http://hellotxt.com/)

  

2: Socialthing (http://socialthing.com/)

  

3: Twitterfeed (http://twitterfeed.com/)

However, the most popular service among the over-networked set right now is Ping.fm, which currently supports 39 social networks, and seems to add new ones on a scarily regular basis. (I don’t know about you, but I didn’t even know there were 39 social networks until I joined Ping.fm!) These networks include all the major online hangouts, including Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, del.icio.us, Flickr, Jaiku, and, of course, Twitter.

That’s impressive enough, but Ping.fm also raises eyebrows with its incredible variety of posting options: e-mail, mobile phone, SMS, MMS, instant messaging (AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, and Windows Live Messenger), gadgets (such as Ping.fm for iGoogle), Web applications (such as Twitterfeed (http://twitterfeed.com/) and the Ping.fm application on Facebook), and desktop applications (such as twhirl).

"Twitter Tips: Posting to Multiple Social Networks"

Reference : wiley.com