Networks

Each network Marketing can post to or read from, what it takes, and how far its own rules let a pipeline go on it. Networks change their rules from time to time. This page says what Marketing does with each, and the composer and the guides show what a network asks today.

Posting networks

These are the channels you tick in the composer on Posts. Each is reached through a connection on Connections, and each connection has its own guide.

A short is a short upright video: a Reel on Facebook and Instagram, a Short on YouTube. The composer shows each channel's own limits, a count against the text limit, and the pictures and video it takes.

Numbers are taken an hour, a day, a week and a month after a version went out, and show under How it did on the post. Networks name their figures differently, so Marketing reads them under common names: a Reddit post's score counts as likes, for example.

What is particular to some:

• Facebook Page and Instagram both go through Meta. When you put the connection to use under Posting, it asks for the Facebook Page ID. Instagram needs a professional account.
• YouTube wants a Video title, and offers Who can watch (Everyone, Anyone with the link, Only the channel) and Made for children. The post's text is the video's description.
• TikTok shows the creator's name and privacy choices in the composer. Until TikTok has approved the app doing the posting, posts are sent to the creator's TikTok inbox to finish there.
• Reddit posts to one subreddit, which you name on each post, with a title.
• Discord posts to one channel through its webhook. Connect again with another webhook for another channel.
• Mastodon follows the limits of the account's own instance.
• LinkedIn posts to a company page, and asks for its Company page ID.

Whatever the channel, a post whose text this account has already posted recently is refused: change the text before posting again.

How a connection is made

Each connection is marked with how it was made:

• GreenMind's app: you signed in through GreenMind's own app on the network.
• Your own: you made an app, or a key, of your own.
• Finished in its app: you chose Post by hand instead. GreenMind prepares each post and opens the network's own page for you to finish it, and nothing is held for the account. Every posting network except Discord offers it.

How far a pipeline may go

The A pipeline's posts column says how far a network's own rules let a pipeline post there with nobody's click:

• Posts by itself: its network welcomes scheduled posts.
• With an admin's consent: its network asks the account's admin to agree before anything is published for them. Each account needs an admin's consent for the pipeline.
• Approved post by post: its network asks for a person's say on every post, so each one waits for approval.

GreenMind can hold a network stricter than this table, and the pipeline then says so. A pipeline drafts by default, and posting by itself is gated: see Posting by itself. None of this touches a post you write and schedule yourself, which goes out at its time.

Posted by hand

A brand with a game linked has four more channels with no API to post through. In the composer they read Posted by hand. When the post is due, a task is made for whoever posts it, with the steps, and the task closes when you paste the address it went out at.

Each also takes the store's pictures from Store bundles.

Other services

Some connections are not for posts.

On Connections, each row lists what a service can do for the brand with words such as Post, Read post insights, Stream live, Run live broadcasts, Take part in live chat, Send mail, Read ads, Manage ads and Read metrics.