When building the first prototype for Composer, I skipped the ability to delete services because it seemed like something we could tackle later. Well later has come. We’ve just deployed the ability to delete services. There’s now a “delete” link next to each service name on the services page.
Until now I was deleting services by hand in response to email requests, but now all Composer users can delete their own services. Happy days. 🙂
We got stickers! In Berlin.
Composer in Berlin
Looks like we’re having issues posting to identica. They’ve switched to pump.io I think. Anyone know what that means for the API? I’ll probably look into it at some point, but if you’re hurting with the lack of Identica support, let me know in the comments, the more feedback, the faster it’ll get fixed.
Very excited to announce that we now have a Composer Chrome Extension!
ComposerChrome allows you to write a post about anything on the web, from any page.
It works in a similar fashion to the bookmarklet. Install the extension, log in, and then click the button to write a post on any webpage – the title and URL will automatically be inserted into the post to make sharing what you’re looking at much easier.
At the moment, your post is sent out to all your networks, although we’ll aim to improve that in the future and allow you to choose what networks you can post to before sending your update.
We’re really excited by our first Chrome extension, and big thanks go out to Roni Laukkarinen for creating it.
This morning we discovered a problem with our publishing to twitter. We were using the Twitter API version 1.0, which was shut down on Monday. We’ve updated to use the 1.1 API and publishing to twitter should now be back online. Apologies for any tweets that failed in the meantime.
To help with these errors, we’ve added deeper visibility into the status of posts on the history page. Under each post you’ll now see a row shows the status of that post against each service. The three statuses are pending, posted and failed. If you see pending, try refreshing after a few seconds. If you see consistent problems with one or more services, let us know.
We track a lot of Composer metrics thanks to the kind folks at StatHat. For my money, the key metric is active users, which is the number of users who posted at least one message through Composer in the last 30 days. Today, we’ve reached a landmark 100 active users.
We’re seeing a steady increase in the user count. The upwards slope of the curve tells me that we’re doing something that people are connecting with, something people care about. Folks are spreading the word, and that’s generating new users every day. It’s incredibly rewarding to see that.
We’ve got a lot of work to do, making Composer easier to use, padding out the missing pieces, adding services, the API, and a lot more. But today we’re taking a moment to celebrate that we’ve built something which is working for 100 people. Awesome. 🙂
When you’re writing messages that are destined for Twitter, there’s often a need to shorten urls. Well, from today, Composer can do that for you. On the post screen you’ll notice a new input box in the top right hand corner. If you enter a URL into it and click “Shorten” the url will be shortened and added to your message.
The new short url will be added to the end of the current message (not where the cursor is in the text box, that will come later). Shortlinks will be on the domain go.cmp.sr and will be very short.
Also note that any urls posted in the message will not be shortened, only urls entered via the shortener, the rest are left as they are.
If you spot any issues with the layout, or have any other feedback, let us know in the comments.
We’re on a roll this week here at Composer HQ. We launched Facebook pages 2 days ago, and today we’re launching Blogger support. It’s live. Check it out. You can add blogger accounts here.
One blogger account can have access to many blogs. After you authorise Composer, we’ll present you with a list of your blogs. Tick as many as you want to add and click “Add Blogs”. Then you’ll land back on the Services page with the new blogs showing at the bottom of the list.
As always, any feedback or issues, shoot over a comment below.
You asked, we delivered. Facebook Pages were the number 1 requested new service. The code is live, you can now post to Facebook Pages from Composer.
Quick word of warning, you’ll need to reauth your Facebook account because we added the “manage pages” Facebook permission. Until you do that, you won’t see any pages on your account because Composer doesn’t have permission to ask them. Click here to reauth now.
To add a Facebook Page, go to the services page, then next to any of your Facebook accounts click the “add pages” link. The link only appears next to Facebook accounts, not next to other Facebook pages. You can post to multiple Facebook accounts and multiple pages within each of those accounts. It’s Facebook page posting galore!
Any questions, issues, or feedback, fire a comment below.
Awesome to get another write up on Beachcandy's blog: http://blog.offlify.com/2013/04/12/post-on-multiple-social-networks-with-composer/
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