How to Use IFTTT to Automate Your Social Media Postings

HOW TO USE IFTTT TO AUTOMATE YOUR SOCIAL

MEDIA POSTINGS BY ALLAN T. AGUIRRE

© Allan T. Aguirre – Your Virtual Office Manager

IFTTT means If This Then That

It allows you to link your web services

Let’s start by opening your browser

Go to www.ifttt.com

IFTTT sign up page

Click Sign up

Enter your Email address

Enter your Password

Click Sign up

This is your IFTTT dashboard

An applet brings your services together

Click Get started

You can view recommended applets for you

Scroll down to view more

Or click Search

Select from the categories

Scroll down to view more categories

Let’s have Social networks

Click Social networks

You will have social networks services

Let’s click Facebook

Click Connect

Log in to your Facebook account

Enter your Email or Phone number

Enter your Password

Click Log in

Notification from IFTTT

Click Edit this if you want to change

Otherwise, click Continue

Another notification from IFTTT

Click Not Now to skip

Or click dropdown to change

Then click OK

IFTTT would like to manage your Pages

Click Not Now to skip

Click Review the info you provide to review

Then click OK after review

Start managing your Facebook

You can select from existing applets

For example, tweet your FB updates

This applet was created by a different user

Click Tweet your Facebook updates

Click Turn on

IFTTT needs to access your Twitter

Click Ok

Please read this note

Enter your Twitter’s Username or email

Enter your Password

Click Authorize app

You now have a new applet

For example, I posted this in my Facebook timeline

Immediately, it is my tweet

Click profile name to create new applet

Click New Applet

Click this

Choose a service

You can search the service

Or scroll down to search

Let’s click again Facebook

Choose a trigger

Let’s say something about your FB photos

Click You are tagged in a photo

Click that

Choose action service

Type to search a service

Or scroll down

Let’s say I want Dropbox

Dropbox is a cloud storage

Click Dropbox

Click Connect

If you have a Dropbox account, enter your Email

Enter your Password

Click Sign in

Click Create a new account to open a Dropbox account

IFTTT notification

Click Allow

Next is to choose your action

Click Add file from URL

IFTTT links your FB to Dropbox

Click Create action

Review and finish the link

Click Finish

You now have a new applet

That you have created

If you’re tagged in FB, your photo is in Dropbox

For example, I was tagged in this photo

I will log in with my Dropbox account

My Dropbox has an IFTTT folder

Click IFTTT folder

Click Facebook folder

Click the file

My photo was saved in Dropbox

I have now two applets

To create new applet, click New Applet

Click again this

Again, you have a selection of services to select

You can link your Gmail account

To your Evernote account

Or your Facebook account

To your Instagram account

And a lot more

IFTTT really empowers you to be more efficient

While having fun

Now signing out

“I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it

with a layer of automation.”

- Conrad Wolfram