Tag: Social Publisher
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Marketing Toolkit update and testing
For many small businesses, marketing is too expensive and too time-consuming to do it properly. Myriad tools exist (and agencies) that offer to solve part of the problem, but they all demand monthly or yearly subscriptions, are overly complicated, and generally packed full of features that you simply don’t need. And the costs stack up, quickly. You’ll have noticed that my socials have been very quiet this past month as I’ve been keeping my head down working on Thiar Toolkit (formerly “Fitz Social Publisher”) which was my attempt to build a social media publishing platform that I can use myself…
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Best image?
And image uploading to Threads from my Raspberry Pi 3 B, via my WordPress site (thiar.ca) is working. Turns out I was passing Meta the wrong URL for the image pulled from WordPress. I was sending “best_image_url()” which uses the dimensions registered as “large” in WP instead of sending the original image URL with original_image_url(). That was a rabbit hole.
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Social Publisher Update
If you follow me on social media, particularly Bluesky or Mastodon, you may have seen a lot of “test posts” happening over the past few weeks. Usually, they appear at odd hours of the day and are promptly deleted. I’ve become disillusioned with the features and cost of social publishing tools such as Buffer and Hootsuite. When you post as infrequently as I do, the subscription costs don’t compare well to the minimal time required to do it myself. I’m not cranking out 50 inane brain farts a day, well, not for social media anyway. Comment scores, posting streaks, AI…
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