With the release of Pownce I started to wonder how does one post to multiple microblogging services? Do you have to pick one and go with it or can you use one client to post to different services?

Pieces of this have existed for quite a while for example

• You can update your blog with twitter- there are widgets to show you latest tweets
• Your twitters can post to your blog automatically
• Tumblr can access different feeds from twitter, flickr, wordpress and del.icio.us and create posts
• Jaiku can pull in your tweets and display them
• You can display twitter and blog posts within Facebook

But the question is now how to create one message and post across several services? This gets a little complicated because each service can have a slightly different feature set for example video or audio in addition to text

Currently there are two solutions I’ve found to this perplexing issue:

Hellotxt
Post to Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Facebook, Tumblr, Meemi, Beeraad, Frazr and GoZub all at once. Unfortunately there is not a mobile client but this is a great way to post to multiple services although you could end up double posting. As I listed above you can set up a few of these services to pull from one another. This would be great to use to post to pownce, facebook and twitter together

Workaround with Twitterfeed

Twitterfeed is a little utility that can take almost any blog and feed it into twitter. A workaround so to speak is to take the feeds generated from pownce and facebook and use twitterfeed to post to twitter. For example Pownce generated RSS feeds from user’s public time lines. If you have a pownce account typically your feed will be http://www.pownce.com/feeds/public/yourid

I’m sure more solutions to this issue will be forthcoming as most of these services have open API’s and want users to be able to post across different systems

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