How to AutoTweet from Your Own Facebook App

How to AutoTweet from Joomla to Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, with your own Facebook App.

http://www.extly.com/how-to-autotweet-from-your-own-facebook-app.html

Prerequisites

• AutoTweetNG Free (*) or PRO v6
  http://www.extly.com/autotweet-ng-pro.html
• A Facebook account
• A site with SSL support (E.g. Facebook's Heroku site)

* Previous tutorial

How to AutoTweet from Joomla in 5 minutes

http://www.extly.com/how-to-autotweet-in-5-minutes-from-joomla.html

About SSL & Facebook

Add a Facebook Account with Your Own App

NEW! In AutoTweetNG v6.4, we've integrated the Facebook Account Management in the Channel itself.

Let's create a Facebook App

• https://developers.facebook.com/apps
• Create New App
• Define the namespace, to create the Canvas Page

Let's create a Facebook App

Now, you have your own:

• App ID
• App Secret
• Canvas Page

Let's create a Facebook App

• From AutoTweetNG, unzip facebook_server_auth_app.zip
• Copy the files to your hosting,
• Manually, verify the Facebook App site,
• For example:
  https://testing-app.extly.com/Facebook-App/

Let's create a Facebook App

Fill the app form configuration, remember to assign a namespace to create the Canvas Page:

Your Facebook App is ready!

• App Id: 285020....
• App Secret: 1f4174.....
• Canvas Page: http://app.facebook.com/mynewapp...

Please, visit the new app: http://app.facebook.com/myn...

It loads your site from the Secure Canvas Url.

... now, the AutoTweet configuration!

Add a Facebook Account with Your Own App

Please, fill App Id, App Secret, and Canvas Page; and continue with the authorization steps (check 1º tutorial).

Your Own Facebook App

• We've created a new Facebook App
• You can freely customize it
• Your posts are going to have your brand name

... but wait... there's another option!

If your Joomla site has SSL support, you can avoid the additional hosting!

Joomla and AutoTweetNG have always a new trick for up their sleeve

Let's create a Joomla-Facebook App

AutoTweetNG has a menu to create the Facebook App.

Add a Facebook Account with Your Own App

Please, fill App Id, App Secret, and Canvas Page,

verify the new address, E.g.
http://..../index.php?option=com_autotweet&view=facebookapp&Itemid=662

Your Own Facebook-Joomla App

• Copy the new address into the Canvas Url and Secure Canvas Url:

• https://..../index.php?option=com_autotweet&view=facebookapp&Itemid=662

... and follow the same steps.

Ready to publish to Facebook!

• 

  AutoTweetNG is ready to publish.
• You have created your own Facebook App.
• You can host the Facebook App in an external SSL site,
• or in your own Joomla site.

NEW! No need of SSL certificates with Heroku, Your Own Facebook-Heroku App!