---
title: Adding social media accounts
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/integrating-social-media/posting-to-facebook-and-twitter.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).

A social media account ("account" in short) in Kentico represents one of the following:

- Facebook page
- Twitter channel (also referred to as user)

Before you add an account, [Connect Kentico to the social media](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md) by means of an app.

You add accounts and assign them to [apps](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md) to enable posting to the accounts.

## Adding a Facebook page

1. Open the **Facebook** application and switch to **Pages**.
2. Click **New page**.
3. Type a **Display name** that will appear in the list of pages.
4. Select a **Facebook app**.
   - If you haven't created an app yet, see [Connecting Kentico to social media](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md).
5. Enter the address of your Facebook page into the **Facebook page URL** field.
6. Click **Authorize** next to **Facebook page access**.
   - If you're not logged in to Facebook in the same browser, the system asks you to log in to Facebook.
   - The system retrieves an **access token** for this page and displays the token's expiration date. Facebook uses the access token to verify that you have administrator rights to the page.
   - If you have problems getting an access token, verify that you performed all the steps described in [Connecting Kentico to social media](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md).
7. Click **Save**.

The system saves the page and shows it in the list of existing pages connected to Kentico.

> **Info:** 
>
> #### Renewing expired Facebook access tokens
>
> Some Facebook page access tokens have limited validity. If an access token is about to expire, the system displays a message in the list of Facebook pages.
>
> To renew an access token:
>
> 1. **Edit** the Facebook page in Kentico.
> 2. Click **Authorize** next to **Facebook page access**.
> 3. Click **Save**.
>
> The system retrieves a new access token for the page and displays the new expiration date.

## Adding a Twitter channel

1. Open the **Twitter** application and switch to **Channels**.
2. Click **New channel**.
3. Type a **Display name** that will appear in the list of channels.
4. Select a **Twitter app**.
   - If you haven't created an app yet, see [Connecting Kentico to social media](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md).
5. Fill in your channel's security details – **Channel access token** and **Channel access token secret**.

   - You can find these on the API Keys page when editing your app on Twitter.

     ![Twitter access token](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/adding-social-media-accounts/twitter_access_tokens.png "Twitter access token")
6. Click **Save**.

The system saves the channel and shows it in the list of existing accounts connected to Kentico.

## Required permissions for adding social media accounts

To add social media accounts to Kentico, an administrator must grant you with permissions for the Social media module. You need either **Modify** or **Modify accounts**.