The Easy Way to connect social networks

How to update Twitter and Facebook with your Google+ posts

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The Easy Way

There is a much easier way, and that is to use a third party app called Manage Flitter*. I love Manage Flitter as a way to manage my Twitter followers, but it also allows you to post your public G+ posts to your Twitter account. Manage Flitter are having similar issues to plusfeed in that they can’t really use the Google+ API very effectively- Google+ are only giving them very limited access. Currently they (like many other services) are having to do quite a bit of screenscraping. I think it’s silly that Google are making services like Manage Flitter resort to this, but until they sort their API out that’s the way it has to be.
To set this up, visit Manage Flitter* and sign up for an account (the basic version is free). Once you’ve down this, click on the Dashboard link and then click on “Turn on/off Google+ Sharing” (see screenshot on left)
You then have to paste in your Google+ profile url and that’s basically it. However you might want to look at the advanced settings. If you don’t want all your Google+ posts to be posted to Twitter then select “Only Share Google+ posts including the tag #twt” and then it will only post Google+ with the hashtag #twt.
If you want to also post to Facebook, then make sure you put the hashtag #fb towards the Google+ post (in the first 110 chars) and use the service, Selective Tweets. Once Manage Flitter posts the Google+ post to Twitter it should contain the #fb hashtag. Selective Tweets will then post this Tweet to Facebook. There will be a delay in this, but currently this is one of the only work arounds.
Of course, if you have cash to burn, you could always use Hootsuite Enterprise Edition. This is one of the only apps out there who are in partnership with Google+. It only costs $1,500 per month. Update Hootsuite offers posting to Google+ business pages on its free, pro and Enterprise plans.
Do check out FriendsPlusMe (as I mentioned at the start of this article), it’s now my recommended option.