social media sharing

colormedesign
New Contributor III

How do I attach a photo to a tweet. I used the share button on the public page and my tweet had no photo

 

 

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Sara_H
Honored Contributor III

@colormedesign it could be an indexing issue if it's a new product or a twitter issue - it's difficult to say

MOM
Valued Contributor

Exactly. For me Zazzle hasn’t indexed any products after August 20st but the newer products show some hits in the backend because I have shared them on social media directly using my own template.

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colormedesign
New Contributor III

Thanks! Could you explain "directly using my own template" ?

MOM
Valued Contributor

@colormedesign   I have created a template on my website at https://sanfrancisco.zone/resources/ (this is kinda like a cheating page with useful links mostly for my self). I have linked all social media icons to my social media accounts for quick access. I write the daily ad text in the Character Counter box once and than just copy and paste it each time I click on one of the icons (opens in a new window tab). I do Twitter last because for Twitter I have to shorten my text because Twitter only allows 280 characters per post. I have my photo and/or video in a folder on my laptop ready to add it to my post (add the media first because some platforms won’t allow you to write the text first and than add the picture/video afterwards). This goes pretty quickly, what takes the most time is the uploading of the media because my Internet connection is fairly slow.

Feel free to copy the template from my site - just change the URL‘s to your accounts. It looks like this (it’s a way down on the page):

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 If you don’t know how to lift html code of a website using the source code I can create the html file for you to download - just let me know. I only work nights on my site so I might not do it right away.

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colormedesign
New Contributor III

Wow. Thanks. Lots of help and now I get to learn new things. 

Thought of another question..... Is the image that pops up on zazzle when I hit 'share' set up to be included when you actually post the share to your choice of media?

MOM
Valued Contributor

@colormedesign  Excellent question. Well, last year when I started on Zazzle it did. But than one by one the sharing tool started to fail (not including the photos or even not posting at all). So I created my own template. Because I wanted to be certain that the image or video actually posted successfully. I know my template is not as automatic as the sharing feature by Zazzle but it works and is pretty easy to use and not time consuming. I haven’t used the sharing tool by Zazzle for many months so I don’t even know how much of it still works (or not), it’s just constantly popping up in the forum as a topic (for being broken).

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MOM
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@colormedesign Sure thing. That’s why this forum is so helpful. To share with others and learn new things. I‘m still a beginner my self (started last November) and I still have tons to learn, smile.

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