Manage multiple social media accounts with your Mac
Keeping up with just one social media account is tough enough. But if you personally hang out on even one or two more services, or are in charge of socializing with your business’s customers online, juggling it all starts to feel a lot more like work, and not the fun kind. Here are a few tools and tricks—some for power users, others for business cases, and even a slightly nerdier option—that can help take the drudgery out of managing social media.
Get started posting with OS X
Depending on your needs, there is, of course, always OS X itself. As of Mountain Lion, Apple added some much-needed integration of a handful of social media accounts right into OS X. Go to Apple menu > System Preferences and select Mail, Contacts, & Calendars. Here, you can add multiple Twitter accounts, one Facebook account, and Yahoo, Vimeo, and Flickr accounts.
For basic OS X integration with social media, enter your account information into OS X’s Mail, Contacts & Calendars System Preferences pane.
OS X’s social media integration mostly makes the process of sharing out to your accounts much easier. If you mostly just need to post status updates, links, and media, having these tools built into most of your apps and even having the good ol’ fashioned right-click menu can simplify a lot of your social tasks.
Try Tweetbot for heavy tweeting
But what if your needs are greater, as they might well be if you’re using social media for both work and play? In addition to your personal Twitter account, you may have another for your blog or business, a parody account for your favorite TV character or meme, and more. If logging in and out of each account at Twitter.com is getting dizzying, give Tapbot’s $20 Tweetbot for Mac a try.
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