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Re:Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 by seydor on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:38PM (#34458586)
Interesting, do instgram and facebook etc allow third party clients?
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Re:Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 by pvarangot on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:43PM (#34458665)
No, but unlike Twitter their advertiser tools are at least halfway decent.
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Re:Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 by erk__ on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:46PM (#34458712)
One of the tools used is Buffer [0], and they seem to support both Instagram and Facebook, and it seems that they are going to continue with Twitter as well.

[0]: https://buffer.com

Note: They seem to support "Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google Business Profile"

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Re:Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 by zimpenfish on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:06PM (#34459042)
Buffer's support for non-business Instagram is "set a reminder for you to post by hand" because Instagram removed scheduled posting ability a good long while back. I suspect their non-business Facebook support is similar.

I know I was a heavy user until (uh) 5? years ago when Instagram and Facebook posting was nerfed into uselessness.

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Re:Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 by ceejayoz on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:06PM (#34459036)
Buffer's not a third-party client (in the sense of Tweetbot etc.), though.

You can't consume or publish to a personal Facebook profile or an individual Instagram account; it's restricted to Facebook Business Pages, Groups, and Instagram Business accounts.

It does compete with the Meta Business Suite, though.

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