How To Share Google+ Updates On Facebook, Twitter etc?

Ever wanted to post to Twitter or Facebook (or LinkedIn) from Google+? It’s certainly a cool feature, although I’m not a massive fan of posting to multiple social networks at the same time. There are many ways you can post to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks all at the same time. However this is missing the fact that Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are very different social networks. For example, do all your friends on Facebook really want to see all your Tweets as Facebook updates? Do your LinkedIn contacts really want to see your Facebook updates?

I’ve mentioned Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, but what about Google+? Google’s social media platform is still the new kid on the block, and their API(the system that lets applications talk to and retrieve information from Google+) is still in its early stages. This means it is currently very difficult to do any kind of syncing to and from Google+.

How To Add Share Button To Google Plus ?

Google+ does not have a direct way sharing your posts to Twitter and Facebook, this Google Chrome extension will add a link “Send to …” to each post. Once clicked, it will bring up an internal dialog asking you where to share your post. If you just request one share link, you just choose it, for example Twitter, and it will add a link called “Share on Twitter” to every post. Kudos to Software Engineer Mohamed Mansour for developing the new Google Plus Chrome extension. Here, we go…

Install Google Chrome Extension

Networks Supported:

Twitter – LinkedIn – Facebook – Tumblr – Identi – Posterous – Reddit – Ping.fm – Hyves – Digg – Blogger – Google – Yahoo! – StumbleUpon – Technorati – Netvibes – AddThis – Livejournal – Pinterest – Email

How Do You Use It?

When installed, it should add the “Share on …” link to every Google+ post. – Click on that link and it will open up a bubble with a list of locations to share. – Click on that share source, and it will open up a new tab asking for permission to share.

Release Notes:

– 4.0.0: Fix takedown notice.
– 3.0.0: New features such as link discovery etc.
– 2.2.0: Options auto persist, and better options UI.
– 2.1.0: Added Pinterest support.
– 2.0.3: Fixes Google DOM Breakage.
– 2.0.0: Does not rely on CSS changes from Google and more shares.
– 1.9.3: Implement Smart Content extraction by Bruno Leonardo Michels.
– 1.9.2: Fix Unicode UTF8 support. It now supports Hebrew and other symbolic langs.
– 1.9.1.1: AddThis integrated.
– 1.9.0: Adds digg, blogger, bookmarks, yahoo, stumbleupon, technorati, & netvibes.

There are bugs at the moment. But, we’ll soon be able to see more options for sharing on other social media. There are plenty of useful updates by Mohamed Mansour. Add him on you Google Circles.