---
title: Posting to social media
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/integrating-social-media/adding-social-media-accounts.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Kentico allows you to post to social media and see your entries within the Kentico user interface. For posting and updating content, Kentico supports:

- [Facebook](#posting-to-facebook)
- [Twitter](#posting-to-twitter)
- [LinkedIn](#sending-company-updates-to-linkedin)

## Prerequisites

Before you can post to any of the supported social media:

1. [Create an App and register it in Kentico.](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md)
2. [Register a social media account (Facebook page or Twitter channel).](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/integrating-social-media/adding-social-media-accounts.md)

## Posting to Facebook

> **Note:** **Important**: The Facebook publishing functionality in Kentico 11 no longer works due to changes in the Facebook API and updated security requirements. To use the functionality, upgrade to Kentico 12 (Service Pack) and apply the latest hotfix.

## Posting to Twitter

1. Open the **Twitter** Kentico application.
2. On the **Tweets** tab, click **New tweet**.
3. Select a **Twitter channel** you want to tweet to.
   - If there are no channels to choose from, [register](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/integrating-social-media/adding-social-media-accounts.md) one first on the **Channels** tab.
4. Write the tweet text.
5. (_Optional_) Select a **URL shortener**.
   - If you don't see your favorite shortener here, see [Setting up URL shorteners](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/integrating-social-media/setting-up-url-shorteners.md).
6. (_Optional_) Enter a **Publishing time** to schedule the publishing of the tweet for a later time.
7. (_Optional_) Select a  [campaign](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/campaigns.md) to which the tweet belongs.
8. Click **Save**.

The system publishes your tweet to the selected page. If you chose to publish the tweet later, you can **Edit** () the tweet before the system publishes it.

To check if your tweet was published, view the list of tweets. The list shows the publishing time next to each tweet.

> **Info:** Kentico allows you to analyze the impact of your tweets and success of your account. See [Viewing Twitter analytics](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/community-features/integrating-social-media/viewing-twitter-analytics.md).

## Sending company updates to LinkedIn

> **Note:** **Note**: The Kentico 11 functionality for managing LinkedIn company profiles no longer works after May 1, 2019 (due to changes in the LinkedIn API, see the [Developer Program Updates](https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/12/developer-program-updates) announcement for details). If you wish to use this functionality, you need to upgrade to the latest version of Kentico.

## Changing existing social media posts and content updates

### Changing Twitter and Facebook posts

You cannot edit existing posts or tweets from within Kentico once they have been published. If a post or tweet hasn't been published yet, you can **Edit** () it from the list of posts or tweets.

To delete a post or tweet, view the list of posts or tweets and click **Delete** () next to the item that you want to delete. This action deletes both the record in Kentico and the post on the particular social media.

## Required permissions for posting to social media

To post to social media from Kentico, an administrator must give you permissions for the Social media module. You need either **Modify** or **Modify posts**.

## Advanced configuration of post scheduling

If you schedule a post for later publishing, the system creates a [scheduled task](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/configuring-kentico/scheduling-tasks.md) for the post. By default, the scheduler in Kentico executes tasks when a user makes a request to the application. Periods of inactivity on the website and in the administration interface will cause posts to be published later than scheduled, i.e. when someone requests a page in the system or on the website.

To solve this issue, and increase the performance of the system at the same time, use the [external scheduler service](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/configuring-kentico/scheduling-tasks/installing-the-scheduler-windows-service.md), which runs independently of the main Kentico web application, or use [automatic scheduler mode](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/configuring-kentico/scheduling-tasks/configuring-scheduled-task-execution.md#configuringscheduledtaskexecution-automaticmode).