How to plan and automatically publish posts on Facebook profiles and pages, Twitter and Instagram in the future
Those who use social media for work or manage a group or page they care about a lot, the post scheduling function is really very useful, so they can work in advance on the messages to send and see them appear only as often as we have decided, without therefore having to stay all the time in front of the computer or the app of the social site we use.
To make our work easier, let’s see all the ways to schedule posts on Facebook (profile, pages and group, on Twitter and other famous social networks such as (Instagram and LinkedIn) , so that we can automatically publish posts in the future on the pages , without having to be physically present at the time of publication.
Schedule posts on Facebook and Instagram
On Facebook we can schedule posts directly from the site, without having to use external resources. To be able to plan, you need to be an administrator or editor of the Page : if we have created the page we can proceed, just as we can proceed in the pages where we help as an editor.
First we take the Facebook site , log in, press the left side on the Pages menu , open the page we manage, click on the left side on Publishing tools then press on the item Scheduled posts and finally on Create post .
Now all we have to do is enter the date and time of the schedule and fill in all the other fields of the post, so that we can schedule it as established. Facebook’s scheduling tool can be used to schedule the same post on Instagram , but before proceeding we’ll need to link the page’s Instagram account to Facebook .
To add Instagram to the Facebook planning tool, let’s go back to the page we manage, press on the side on Page Settings , scroll through the various items and finally open the Instagram section .
On the page that opens, click on Connect account and enter the Instagram credentials when requested (if we have used Facebook, the connection with the account will be automatic).
Schedule Twitter posts
Social Twitter also has a scheduling system, which we can use for any post we have in mind. To proceed, all we have to do is open the Twitter site , log in with the account in our possession and press the calendar icon, immediately below the post entry field.
After having decided the date and time of the post, click on Confirm and create the post as usual; at the end we confirm the scheduled post and close Twitter, sure that our message will be published at the set time and date.
Sites to schedule posts
Before social networks became so modern it was not possible to plan posts without the help of an external site; over the years many sites have sprung up to schedule posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, let’s see the best ones together.
- Buffer , a tool for sharing content on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, which allows you to schedule posts and send them on all profiles and pages. Buffer also supports Facebook Pages, Instagram Accounts, and LinkedIn Pages. You can use it for free, for three social profiles together, while if you want more you have to pay.
- Postcron : Probably the best application to send scheduled posts , because it supports Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest. With Postcron you can schedule messages and status updates for Facebook which also include photos and images and website links . The application can be extremely useful for bloggers to post their content every day on Facebook in order to send it, for example, every 3 hours, at regular intervals.
- SocialoOmph is a very similar application for scheduling tweets at a set time and day that also allows you to shorten URLs with bit.ly and translate tweets. The Schedule button is the one to schedule the tweets to be published. This app supports Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest as well as Tumblr, Medium and WordPress blogs. The free account, however, allows you to schedule posts only on a social profile.
- Twittimer is a commercial tool that can be used for free to schedule up to 10 posts per month, on three social networks : Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you want more, then you have to pay for a subscription. Updates can be scheduled every fifteen minutes and you can set a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly frequency. All scheduled updates are visible in your account, and you can check the statistics, delete them by hand individually or in bulk.
- TweetDeck is a web app to use Twitter from your desktop in a different and more journalistic way.
TweetDeck allows you to schedule updates on Twitter by setting the “schedule” under the box for writing a new post. - HootSuite is the best site to plan posts for all known social networks , including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Hootsuite is a popular application for social marketers on a professional and commercial level.
We use one or more of the services listed in order to become successful social media managers, planning every single post we have to publish.
Conclusions
With the advice seen above we no longer have to stay in front of the PC to plan the activity of our social page, since we can plan each publication with great care and continue the activity even when we are not physically present in front of the computer, leaving the publication to the social network itself.
Still on the subject of planning, you can also program SMS and Emails from Android and schedule the sending of Emails in Gmail at a future date .
