If you are into business or an addict to social media or simply believe in keeping your various social media profile followers updated all the time then you must do it smartly. To keep your fans and followers on all of your media profiles engaged and updated you must know one simple trick and that is interconnecting your profiles. Who can know the fact better than you that ‘time is money’ and you just cannot afford to flock from one profile to another and write the same status message each and every time.

There are 100s of social media sites out on the web and it is highly impossible to be active on all of these sites. However, what can be done is automate the updates or interrelate different profiles together only to sit back and concentrate on creating stuff and not invest most of the time marketing the stuff.

Every successful company or a business owner or a blogger would at least have five to six social media profiles of which most common are Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, LinkedIn, etc wanting to be served with freshly brewed cup of updates.  Be it the updates about new launches, events, offers, or simply new blog posts or fun content.

Here are few easy to set up steps for you to win over the social media.

Twitter Settings:

Display your tweets on Facebook timeline automatically.

1. Login to your Twitter profile (or sing up if you do not have one!).
2. Click on the mini human icon in the upper right corner to get a drop down menu.
3. Now click on settings.
4. You get a list of options on the left hand side. Click on Profile tab.
5. In the right column of the page displayed, you will get an option Facebook as your last setting on the page. Click on ‘Sign-in to Facebook and connect your accounts’ tab.
6. A window pops up and you are asked to sign-in to your Facebook account.
7. You can select one or both the check boxes to post your tweets to Facebook wall and/or Facebook fan page. If you have multiple pages then you may have to choose the one  on which you want the tweets to be posted.
8. Hit the Save Changes tab and you will see your tweets automatically being updated on your Facebook.

Pinterest:

Post your pin descriptions on your twitter timeline automatically.

There are no settings required to be done on Pinterest as you are given a choice to post on twitter every time you pin something on your wall.  You must be able to see a check box with twitter option on every pin at the bottom right corner of the pinning box. Check it and you will see your pin on twitter and therefore on Facebook (Remember in the above twitter settings you have done a great job of automatically posting tweets on Facebook).

Tumblr:

Integrate Facebook and Twitter into Tumblr.

Option 1: Update your Facebook profile status and/or fan page via Tumblr.TLogin to your tumblr profile.

1. Click on the settings icon.
2. Click on your Tumblr blog name which is the last option in the list displayed towards left side.
3. Scroll down and you will find two social media options namely:

• Facebook: Check the box ‘Share posts on your timeline’. Make sure to select the right option in the drop down menu to share on your Facebook profile or one of your Facebook fan pages.
• Twitter: Check the box ‘Share posts on your timeline’. Sign in by clicking the button and authorize the application.

You are done. Scroll down and click on Save button. Again beware of posting multiple updates of same posts through twitter and tumblr on Facebook!

Option 2: Display your tweets in the header of your Tumblr blog.

1. Repeat the steps 1 to 3 in Option 1.
2. Click on Customize button under the option theme.
3. You will get your current theme along with all the options related to the theme in the left block.
4. Search for the option Appearance and click to get a menu.
5. Check the box ‘Show twitter feeds’.
6. Click Save button on top left corner.

You are ready to show your one latest tweet to your Tumblr followers.

LinkedIn:

Post your tweets to LinkedIn profile.

1. Getting your tweets posted in your LinkedIn  timeline is as easy as rest of the above media.
2. To get started, login to your LinkedIn profile.
3. Hover the curser over your name in the top right corner.
4. Click on settings.
5. Click on profile option.
6. Under the settings tab, click on ‘manage your twitter settings’.
7. In the pop-up box, add your twitter account and save the settings.

All this sounds cool and practical isn’t it? But here is a word of caution. The automation and integration can be easy to use but it also easy to spam your followers and fans by repeatedly sending the same updates through two or more social sites.  Before falling prey to this awesome feature of interconnecting media, watch out and better come up with a flowchart to stay away from any confusion!

How have you been using this time-saving concept? Do share your tips to stay away from spamming.