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Usually, when you have a question you want to ask it also to your friends. So, when a user is logged through Facebook, I propose to automatically post the question to his wall. The wall post could include the question title and a link to the question in the OSQA site.

This is applicable also to answers and comments.

I think that this feature could improve a lot the visibility of OSQA sites.

JIRA issue: http://jira.osqa.net/browse/OSQA-519

asked 30 Nov '10, 07:34

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This sounds like a smart feature. Also, possibly a "Tweet my question" and even a simple Facebook "Like" button.

(30 Nov '10, 07:47) rickross ♦♦

I also agree with the "Tweet my question" checkbox. The advantage is that since, at the question post page, you already know if the user has a Facebook account, or a Twitter account, or both, you can display only the checkboxes which are applicable to that user. And users who do not have a Facebook or Twitter account registered in their OSQA profile will not see any checkbox at all.

For me the "Like" button is a different thing, because it does not belong to the question post page, it does not require you to be logged in OSQA, etc.

(30 Nov '10, 08:00) Oscar ♦

Definitely worth implementing something like this.

(01 Dec '10, 04:19) pgardiye

I had a post in here like this at least for twitter i used twitter feed to tweet out the questions - would be cool to also have it send them out on the persons individual twitter account and Facebook is cool too - maybe the like button but like @Oscar said thats a bit different

(01 Dec '10, 16:00) famdylan

Not sure about OSQA but this feature (exactly how you described it) is already available on another Q&A project http://Lampcms.com (it's in php) There you can also auto-post Q or A to Twitter, Tumblr and Blogger blog (if posting to blog entire Q or A is posted with a link back)

(08 Jun '11, 09:49) yaftun

This would be a useful function indeed! +1 for this feature request. That said, I would think it would work best as an optional 'tweet my question & facebook my question' page after the post has been sent from a usability perspective.

(09 Jun '11, 00:05) JamesSpittal
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There are 2 possible ways to do this:

  1. Where users login via Facebook Authentication on an OSQA installed site, the application could ask the user whether they would like their question to be posted on their facebook wall. This will need to be coded by the developers (Rick Ross/ Hernani) and may take some time depending on how long their to-do list/pending task list is.

  2. I have a quicker solution for individual users. These users may not have to login to OSQA installed site via Facebook Authentication. A: So, you visit the user and grab the RSS url from that page(eg: http://meta.osqa.net/questions/asked-by/3/rickross/?type=rss). B: Next, you login to Facebook and install an app like RSS Grafiti (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=45439413586) and use the RSS feed you get from step A. That's it, every time you post a question on the site, the question will also be posted on your Facebook Wall.

I hope this helps.

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Most of the users aren't going to do what option 2 requires. Option 2 could work for OSQA admins, but not for users in general.

(11 Jan '11, 11:12) Oscar ♦

yep, but 1. is such a great option :)

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