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title: Adding social media accounts
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k9/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k9/community-features/integrating-social-media/posting-to-social-media.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](#adding-a-facebook-page)
- [Twitter channel](#adding-a-twitter-channel) (also referred to as user)
- [LinkedIn company profile](#adding-a-linkedin-company-profile)

Before you add an account, [Connect Kentico to the social media](https://docs.kentico.com/k9/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/k9/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md) to enable posting to the accounts.

## Adding a Facebook page

> **Note:** **Note**: The Kentico 9 functionality for posting to Facebook pages no longer works due to changes in the Facebook API and additional security requirements. If you wish to use this functionality, you need to upgrade to Kentico 11 or newer.

## 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/k9/community-features/integrating-social-media/connecting-kentico-to-social-media.md).
5. Fill in your channel's security details – **Access token** and **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/k9/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.

## Adding a LinkedIn company profile

> **Note:** **Note**: The Kentico 9 functionality for managing LinkedIn company profiles no longer works after May 18th, 2018 (due to changes in the LinkedIn Company Pages API). If you wish to use this functionality, you need to upgrade to Kentico 11 or newer.

## 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**.