PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Overview of the Social Media Publisher
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The Social Media Publisher for Web Content Manager is used to manage social media posts for published content items and, if configured, draft content items.

  • The Social Media Publisher supports IBM Connections, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

  • The Social Media Publisher supports both manual and automatic social media posts, and also manages the life-cycle of social media posts.

  • Social media posts are only applied to published content and, if configured, draft content items.

  • The Social Media Publisher does not include or manage the social media "badges" we can add to websites to allow end-users to link or share web content to their social network followers.

Social Network Message type Statistics supported Message URL addressable Supports end user tracking Supports untrack Supports delete
IBM Connections Blog post Like, comment count Yes No Yes Yes
IBM Connections Message board post Comment count Yes No Yes Yes
IBM Connections Wiki post Like, comment count Yes No Yes Yes
Facebook Page wall post Like, comment count Yes Yes Yes Yes
Facebook Profile wall post Like, comment count Yes Yes Yes Yes
LinkedIn Network update None No No Yes No
LinkedIn Share None No No Yes No
Twitter Tweet Reshare count Yes Yes Yes Yes

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Before you begin

We should become familiar with the social media of choice and be aware of limitations such as:

  • throttle limits

  • maximum posts per timeframe


Parent topic: Social Media Publisher