NEW: How to Update Facebook and Twitter with your G+ Posts
There has been a kind of solution around for a week or so which uses the Facebook email address to post, but unfortunately this only posts the first 50 characters of your post. This is because Facebook only uses the subject of the email and Google truncates the subject in the notification emails.
However, there is a solution that I have come up with! Hurray! It uses a combination of RSS feeds and Twitterfeed.
The first thing is to get an RSS feed of your G+ posts. G+ haven’t got round to adding RSS feeds yet, but you can make an rss feed using this unofficial RSS maker. Details can be found here: http://www.nirmaltv.com/2011/07/14/how-to-create-an-rss-feed-for-a-google-profile/
Essentially you need to get your G+ ID (that’s the big long number) and add it to this url: http://plusfeed.appspot.com/
So, my RSS feed would be: http://plusfeed.appspot.com/118089425632910430111
Once you’ve done this, head over to http://twitterfeed.com/ and sign up for an account (unless you already have one)
Create a new feed and call it something like “my G+ feed” and paste in the rss feed you have created above. Change the update frequency to every half an hour (currently the most frequent option) Choose how many posts you want it to update at any one time. I’ve chosen 2 as I don’t want my Twitter and Facebook friends to be bombarded with too many posts at the same time.
Change the “post content” to “description only” although you may want to play around with that.
You may want to add something to the Post prefix box. This puts some text at the start of the post, so you could add something like “From My G+”. I have left it blank.
At the bottom there is the keyword filter. I haven’t added anything here because I am happy for all my posts to be posted to Twitter and Facebook. However if you want to add a tag to your G+ posts (for example #fb and #tw) you could get Twitterfeed to only post to Facebook and Twitter if it finds those tags in your post.
Click on next and add your Twitter and Facebook accounts and then click on create. And you are done!
If you want to update more than every half an hour then you could try another service such as http://ifttt.com/ which posts every 15 mins.
One disadvantage with this method is that I think your post needs to be public in order for it to be picked up by the RSS feed. Perhaps there could be a way to add authentication in the future so that the RSS feed shows private posts, but that’s for another time. Perhaps by then, Google will have released RSS feeds to G+.
