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Ash
Ash

Reputation: 169

Social media functionality on website

Im totally new to integrating social media with a website so this is a bit of a scattershot question. There is no doubt questions on here answering this already but as im not sure what im looking for yet, im not sure how to find them.

Okay so my company wants to promote their twitter and facebook profiles as customer service avenues, so users will ask questions on there rather than calling or emailing.

Ive built quite a funky page promoting this, however the links are literally just links to the facebook and twitter pages.

Is there a method to load a window to twitter or facebook from a website link that will prompt a user to type and submit a question to be submitted the the FB/twitter feed? Or is there a way to take content from a text box on site and pass this through to FB/Twitter?

Basically just looking for something slightly cooler and more user friendly than just dumping them on the companies FB or twitter page on click.

Cheers,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 413

Answers (2)

Ash
Ash

Reputation: 169

Found the solution I was looking for that works for twitter, its simply passing values through a URL, details are here https://about.twitter.com/resources/buttons#mention.

For facebook, seem to be able to do this through the comments module. Seems like a lot of this can be edited through the API so a combination of both should give me what i need:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments/

Upvotes: 1

Asher
Asher

Reputation: 403

use this website as an idea on pushing content into tweets http://www.sharelinkgenerator.com/

example for twitter: the href on your link would be:

https://twitter.com/home?status=your%20content%20here

if you wanted dynamic content, you would build the url using script.

same rules apply for facebook.

if you wanted to keep it within your website, maybe look into a fixed position div containing an iframe.

Upvotes: 0

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