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Hi All,

A while ago (about 3 years ago) I linked up The Spoof with Twitter and Facebook.

The Facebook link stopped working about a year-and-a-half ago and the Twitter integration stopped working about 8 months ago. Facebook and Twitter both made changes to their systems and, I'm sorry to say, I didn't have time to make the relevant changes here to keep up.

I've spent some time over today and yesterday trying to get these links back up and running and, for the most part, they are. There's still work to be done to refine the systems.

The Twitter linkage should be working as well as it was originally. If you've got your The Spoof account linked up with your Twitter account, whenever you post a spoof it will be posted to your own Twitter feed and it will be re-tweeted by @TheSpoof.

If you don't have a Twitter account linked, up your spoof will still be published on @TheSpoof for our followers to read (We have around 500 followers at the moment).

You can also choose (and it is set to do this by default) to post to your Twitter account when you rate a spoof. If the spoof you're rating is your own, it will be published on your Twitter feed (if it's not already been posted before) otherwise, if it's someone else's spoof, a re-tweet to the original tweet will be posted on your Twitter feed.

The Facebook linkage stopped working for users soon after it was first turned on. There was too much content being sent to Facebook and that caused them to block the app temporarily. After that point, I altered the integration to only post to The Spoof's page on Facebook. Eventually, that stopped working too, in August 2012(!)

The Facebook integration works slightly differently to Twitter (I will probably make some changes to the way this works in the near future). If you link up your Facebook account, posts about your new spoofs will (should) be added to your Facebook page and will (also) be posted on The Spoof's page. The main difference here being there is no "re-tweeting", or "sharing" in the Facebook parlance, but there probably should be to make sure the content is kept fresh and we make good use of the "social" aspect

As with Twitter, you can also choose to have The Spoof automatically post to your Facebook wall when you rate a spoof (and this is turned on by default).

One thing to point out is that snippets only get posted to Twitter, and only if they will fit comfortably on a tweet.

I should also say that if you have previously linked to your Facebook account this will need to be re-done. The Twitter accounts should continue to work as they did before (unless you've revoked The Spoof app's access or made any significant change to your Twitter account).

There's currently nothing in place (but there should and will be in the future) in the Writers Desk to let you re-activate the link to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. If you want to re-activate, please use the following links for now:

Facebook
Twitter

If you encounter any troubles with this, please let me know and I'll try to fix.

Once you've linked up your account, you might need to sign out and back in to The Spoof to make sure everything gets pushed through correctly. (If you use both the .com and .co.uk sites you'll need to sign out and back in on both, sorry).

Any feedback is much welcome, either here or in a pm, but preferably here.

Cheers,

Mark

p.s. I'm looking to do more integration with Google+ in future so that (hopefully) you can identify yourself as the author of your spoofs and share your spoofs with your circles!