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Use Ping.fm To Update All Your Social Networking Statuses/Updates!

Posted by jeffmccord • 6/08/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: plurk, pownce, social media, social network, statuses, twitter, update

Tired of having to log in to Twitter, Pownce, Plurk, Facebook, MySpace, etc to update your status or send a shout-out about your latest life's happenings?!

Then use Ping.fm - one site, one place to update... and it does the rest and sends it out to all your profiles! Done and done!

www.jeffmccord.org/?p=227

THANK GOD for this service, huh??!

User Comments

6/08/08

booboostrider

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7/03/08

RemBeatZ

Nice one! Posted on your blog

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7/24/08

RemBeatZ

So when is ping.fm actually going out of beta? It would be nice to use it, but if it's going to stay in beta and I can't access it then there's not much point!

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7/24/08

ivygirl16

I just checked out the site, and I love the idea of it. It is very similar to Friend Feed.

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1. 8/12/08
  
  DaneMorgan
  
  Actually, the subtlety here is that it is almost the opposite of friendfeed. FF gathers information from disparate sources, while this disperses information to them.
8/06/08

jeffmccord

I can give you all beta passwords if you want them... leave me a comment on www.jeffmccord.org or msg me.

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8/12/08

graphicidentity

Sounds great thank you for let us know!

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1. 8/13/08
  
  jeffmccord
  
  You are more than welcome!
8/12/08

clioandme

Call me old-fashioned, but wouldn't that create more than a few redundant messages and possibly create a spammy appearance to people who are paying attention?

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1. 8/12/08
  
  thegoodknife
  
  If your followers aren't following you on multiple networks it won't come across as spam since they only see the one message.
  
  I typically unfreind people who use these tactics though, its very dehumanizing and unpersonal.
2. 8/13/08
  
  jeffmccord
  
  Mark - maybe it is because you're old fashioned.... but hopefully I can help you understand why someone would use it (and trust me, not sure how it's dehumanizing per thegoodknife, but okay)
  
  I have accounts on Plurk, Twitter, Pownce and FriendFeed - all considered "microblogs". If there is something I want to push out generally (not a personal message tied to a friend), lets say I want to say "Go Michael Phelps! Just won his 11th career gold!" - I will go to Ping and use Ping for that message so it will immediately send it out to all my microblogs. That saves me literally 10 mins from not having to log in, log out, write the message, etc.
  
  To answer thegoodknife - if you "unfriend" people for using Ping, do you have many friends/followers? I think I understand your point where someone might use it to SPAM which I agree, would totally be annoying, but most of us social networking geeks use it for simplicity and for saving time. And we don't use it for EVERY conversation - that would be impossible.
  
  Ping is made for broadcasting the same message to multiple platforms... it's that simple.
3. 8/13/08
  
  clioandme
  
  Of course, there is also the question of why one would need accounts on all these places.
4. 8/13/08
  
  jeffmccord
  
  Marstoneman - one needs multiple accounts because one has lots of friends... clearly something that is not your cup of tea.
8/12/08

PetLvr

I thought this was really cool and set it up not only to have many social networks accounts of mine, but so it ties into my Google Talk and all I have to do is send a message to that Pingdotfm user to send them all.

Then, after my first 'mass-ping.fm' ... I realized ...

heck! I barely check my twitter replies .. .NOW I've got to check my plurk and all the other accounts too?? Too much work.

I stopped doing that and never did any 2nd post.

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1. 8/13/08
  
  jeffmccord
  
  And herein lies the problem, PetLvr. It's NOT the answer for mass responding or to get your DMs/Personal tweets... it's for mass communicating one simple message that you want out to all your microblogs and status updates (Facebook/MySpace) - aka "I just got engaged!" or "Michael Phelps ROCKS!" or something simplistic like that.
2. 8/13/08
  
  clioandme
  
  And as such it sounds spammy to me. I use these social networking sites for two-way communication. I'm not interested in a one-way stream, my RSS feeds excepted, of course. I won't follow anyone who treats social media as a one-way stream.
3. 8/13/08
  
  jeffmccord
  
  You are definitely the minority if you think that's spammy... just the facts.
  
  If you don't like ping.fm, you're not wasting any of my time! I have PLENTY of people who loved that I shared it.
8/13/08

traceygr

It sounds similar to socialmarker.com

I don't think that a site like this prevents people from using social networking sites for two-way communication. However I am wary of any service which encourages you to Digg/Stumble/Reddit etc your own articles - don't you eventually get penalised?

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5/10/09

matthewtommasi

I have create a how-to guide for ping.fm here thesocialmediaguide.com.au/2009/05/10/how-to-use-pingfm/

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