Everything you need to know about Social feeds

 

In this article, we will cover:

• What is a feed?
• How to add a Social Account and a feed
• Things you should know about feeds
• How to know when a feed is not pulling content
• How to resolve a feed/account
• How to re-authorize your account
• How to check Facebook admin rights
• How to add someone as admin onto a Facebook Page
• How to check Facebook Business Integration app
• How to reset permissions by deleting the Facebook Business Integration app
• How to check if a Facebook Page is connected to an Instagram account
• How to transfer a feed

What is a feed?

A connection (or feed) is any stream that you add from any of our supported networks. Click here for more information on what you can connect and feed counts.

How to add a Social Account and a feed

If you want to add a social account and want to set up new feeds or you are getting feeds transferred to you, you will need to add the right Social Accounts before that can be done.

1. Click on the account at the top right
2. Click on Team Settings
3. Click on Social Accounts
4. Click green "+ Add" button
5. Choose Social account
6. Click Connect at the bottom
7. Log in as the administrator of the account (Instagram accounts must have a linked Facebook Page)
8. Go through the permissions and/or authorize for TINT to connect 
   • Facebook/Instagram:
     • If you need all the pages to appear, click Continue
     • If you need to be able to pick which pages appear inside of TINT, click on Edit Access. Make sure that you are selecting the page in each permission section. Note: Manage Business permission may control multiple pages so if you do not select this to start with, the permissions may end up giving an error Advanced Permissions Error or you will be able to connect but will not see any of the pages when you are adding a feed.  Once you are finished selecting your pages, click on the X in the top right-hand corner, you may need to scroll back up to the top.  Click Continue to complete the adding of the permissions.
   • Twitter:
     • Will give you the authorize pop-up, click on Authorize to allow TINT access 
   • TikTok: 
     • If you are happy with all the permissions listed, click Authorize
     • If you want to toggle off certain permissions, click on Edit Access and toggle off which permissions you do not want but please beware that TINT features may not work properly if you turn off these options. Once finished, click on the back arrow in the left-hand corner and click Authorize
   • Hootsuite: 
     
     • Will give you the access pop-up, click on Access to allow TINT access
   • Pinterest:
     • Will give you the access pop-up, click on Give Access to allow TINT access
   • Flickr:
     • Will give you the link pop-up, click on Ok, I'll Authorize it to allow TINT access
9. Then to add a feed, go to a TINTboard 
10. Click on under Content, click on the feed type you want to add

 

Things you should know about feeds

1. The link between a feed and TINT, a token, can expire for a number of reasons. 
   For example, the natural expiration time of the token based on the individual Social Networks rules, changing a password, changing the email address, security reasons, and logging out of the social network platform, …
2. Instagram and Facebook are connected.  If anything happens to the token on Facebook’s side, it can affect Instagram’s social feed connection.
3. Instagram will only allow us up to 24 hours of content when you refresh a non-branded feed.  This is based on Instagram’s algorithm and it’s not something we can change on our side.

How to know when a Feed is not pulling content

There are normally two ways of seeing that the feeds are not pulling in any content. 

The usual way is to see the yellow exclamation mark next to your social feed in TINT:

The other way is when your content hasn't been updated.  To double-check that the feed is not pulling content without the yellow exclamation mark, go to the social network, for example, Facebook and look up a page that you’ve set up, if you see posts that aren’t in your TINT, then it’s possible that it’s not pulling the content.

We will also send the person who owns the account/feeds an email saying that their token has expired.  It will look something like this:

How to resolve a Feed/Account 

The first way is when you get a yellow resolve button like this:

1. Navigate to your name in the top right corner
2. Click on Team Settings
3. Click on Social Accounts
4. Find your Name/Account in the list or use the search bar at the top
5. Click the yellow-orange “Resolve” button
6. It will automatically open a popup box linked to the social media type that you are trying to add.  It's possible that this pop-up box will flash and disappear if you are already logged in but it might ask you to log in and/or confirm to give TINT authorization again.
7. The yellow resolve button should disappear from next to the social account

The second way is through when you are adding a feed.

1. Click on the feed you want to add
2. Click on the Select account
3. Here you will see a yellow exclamation next to your name
4. Click on this and it will automatically open a popup box linked to the social media type that you are trying to add.  It's possible that this pop-up box will flash and disappear if you are already logged in but it might ask you to log in and/or confirm to give TINT authorization again.

How to re-authorize your account

1. Navigate to your name in the top right corner
2. Click into Team Settings
3. Click into Social Accounts
4. Find your Name/Account in the list or use the search bar at the top
5. click on the ... at the side of your name
6. click on re-authorize, it will automatically open a popup box linked to the social media type that you are trying to add.  It's possible that this pop-up box will flash and disappear if you are already logged in but it might ask you to log in and/or confirm to give TINT authorization again.
7. Log into the accounts you own

How to Check Facebook Admin Rights

To link your Facebook account to TINT to pull content, you need to have a Facebook Business Page or your company will need to make you administrator on their page(s).
Ways to check this can vary depending if you use Facebook's Business Suite or New Page Experience to manage your pages.

The following is for New Page Experience: 

1. Click on this link to bring up a list of all the pages that you manage.  Here you will be able to see if you have a page role but you need to be admin/page owner for it to link correctly to TINT.   If you do not see the page you are looking for, this means that you don't have a role on the page.  Ask the page owner or admin to add you to the page you need to use on TINT.
   
2. If the link doesn't work, you will have to switch on the page that you want to check.  Click on the profile circle in the right-hand corner and click see all pages if you don't see the page that you need.  Click on the page.
3. Once you have switched over to the correct page, click on the profile circle again and Click on Settings 
4. Click on New Page Experience
5. They either should be listed under People with Facebook access (which used to be Facebook Admin) or Business account access which would indicate the page owner.

How to add someone as an admin onto a Facebook Page

To add someone as admin, the page owner or someone else who is admin needs to go on this link, and click on the relevant page.

1. You will have to switch on the page that you want to add them to.  Click on the profile circle in the right-hand corner and click see all pages if you don't see the page that you need.  Click on the page.
2. Once you have switched over to the correct page, click on the profile circle again and Click on Settings 
3. Click on New Page Experience
4. Click Add new next to People with Facebook Access to give them the correct access.
5. This will open a popup window and you will need to find them by name or email address.  
6. Click on Give Access.  This adds them to the list but says the invitation expires in 31 days.  If you want to cancel the invitation, click on the ... next to their name and that will revoke the invitation.
7. This should send a notification to the person you are adding.  This sometimes is a notification but sometimes, it's an email depending on settings.  Once they accept, they will have access to the page.

How to check the Facebook Business Integration App

When you linked your Facebook to TINT, it automatically puts TINT in your Facebook Business Integrations.
To check everything is setup correctly:

1. Click on this link or if this link doesn't take you to the below as per the screenshot, do the following.  Make sure that you are on your personal profile and not a page profile.  To switch, click on the profile circle in the right-hand corner.
2. Click again the dropdown arrow for the profile and click on Settings & Privacy
3. Click on Settings
4. Click on Security and Login
5. Click on Business integrations 
6. Check that the TINT Business Integration is listed.  If not, go to TINT and re-authorize or add the account.
7. Click on View and Edit
8. Check the list and make sure that all the toggle switches are in blue and that all the pages you want access to are also ticked.  If you are managing multiple pages, make sure you are giving permissions in every section.
9. Click Save

How to reset permissions by deleting the Facebook Business Integration app

1. Click on this link or do the following if it doesn’t take you to the correct place. Ensure you are on your personal profile, not a page profile. To switch, click on the profile circle in the right-hand corner.
2. Click again the dropdown arrow for the profile and click on Settings & Privacy
3. Click on Settings
4. Click on Security and Login
5. Click on Business Integrations
6. Find the TINT app Integration and click remove
7. A popup will appear and click remove
8. Go to TINT to re-authorize (Always re-authorize FB before Instagram, should make it easier)
9. Navigate to your name in the top right corner
10. Click into Team Settings
11. Click into Social Accounts
12. Find your Name/Account in the list or use the search bar at the top
13. click on the ... at the side of your name
14. click on re-authorize
15. Log into the accounts you own
16. Facebook and Instagram have two options here:
    1. If you need all the pages to appear, click Continue
    2. If you need to be able to pick which pages appear inside of TINT, click on Edit Access. Make sure that you are selecting the page in each permission section. Note: Manage Business permission may control multiple pages so if you do not select this to start with, the permissions may end up giving an error Advanced Permissions Error or you will be able to connect but will not see any of the pages when you are adding a feed.  Once you are finished selecting your pages, click on the X in the top right-hand corner, you may need to scroll back up to the top.  Click Continue to complete the adding of the permissions.

How to check if a Facebook Page is connected to an Instagram account

For any Instagram feed to pull content, it needs to be connected to the Facebook Page. 
To check or connect to the Instagram account:

1. 1. Click on this link to bring up a list of all the pages that you manage.
   2. Click on the page that you need to check from the list.  
   3. Once you have switched over to the correct page, scroll down to the bottom on the left-hand side.  It says Switch into xxxx Page to take more actions.  Click on this.  
   4. Click Switch again,
   5. Click on Settings
   6. Click on Linked Accounts.
   7. Check the details here are connected.  If not connected, click on connect account and link the correct Instagram account for this Facebook Page. If the connection says it's in review, click on Review Connection.   It will say that you need your Instagram logins and you will need to follow the instructions from Facebook further.  You should end up with a screen where the Instagram account is connected again. If you get an error - something went wrong, you will need to contact Facebook directly via their support to resolve.  

Connected

 

Not connected

 

Review Connection

For more information on how to connect a Facebook account to Instagram, click here.

How to transfer a feed

What happens if you are leaving or someone on your team has left the business but you want to keep those feeds active.  This is where transferring a feed comes in.  This feature gives you the ability to transfer a Feed from one person to another.  The new owner of the feeds needs to connect the accounts of the social feeds that will be transferred to them before starting the transferring process.  See How to add a Social Account above.  

1. Click on the account at the top right
2. Click on Team Settings
3. Click on Social Accounts
4. Find the Name/Account of the person that owns the social feeds currently in the list or use the search bar at the top. 
5. Click on the ... 
6. Click on Transfer Social Feed
7. Select the social feeds that you want to transfer.  You can select some or all of them.  The social feeds are grouped by TINT boards.
8. Click Transfer 
9. In the search bar, search for the person that you want the links to be transferred to. If you can’t find them, it means that the social networks haven’t been set up on the new owners' side.  Get them to log into TINT and add their social networks to continue.
10. Click Transfer

If you have any questions regarding connections / social feeds, don't hesitate to contact Technical Support at support@tintup.com.