Facebook Integration

Facebook Integration

Auto-post Completed Games, Milestones, Blog Posts and more!

Written by TrueAchievement on 09 August 12 at 09:37

It was way back in Jan '09 when we first added Twitter integration to the site, allowing you to auto-post Completed Games, Achievement Wins, Milestones etc direct to your Twitter feed from TA.

Well over 5,000 of you are now using TA to show off on the Twitter-sphere! And if you use twitter and haven't set it up yet, get over to the Twitter Settings page and set it up now!

Now, a mere 3 and a half years later (!), we bring you facebook integration!

You can get TA to auto-post any or all of the following events to your facebook timeline:

- Completed Games
- Milestones
- TA Status Changes
- New Blog Posts

Here's an example of what a completed game post looks like on facebook:

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(Apologies for the game used, I needed something I could complete quickly to test it laugh)

To set up your facebook integration there's a link on your Customize menu, or you can click here:

Facebook Settings

You'll go through the standard facebook app linking procedure.

If you have other ideas of things you'd like auto-posted to your facebook page then please post in this thread (I thought started games might also be a nice idea)...

Cheers!

P.S. If you don't use facebook or twitter, you really don't need to tell us how much you hate social networks in this thread smile
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YA BILLY
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YA BILLY
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Last post: 17 May at 01:56
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:38
Nice...now just need to join Facebook and twitter.
oxHARMONxo
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Last post: 21 May at 02:23
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:40
Sounds cool, but do I really want everyone to know how big of a nerd I am...
#1 for music/ rhythm game completions!
aka Kryptonian
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Last post: 15 May at 20:23
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:42
YA BILLY said:Nice...now just need to join Facebook and twitter. lol I was thinking the same thing, pretty cool feature though.
Phoenix C64
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Last post: Yesterday at 16:50
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:43
i don't quite like social networks (only use linkedin for professional stuff) but still: nice work TA!
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anomalystic777 - Internet has been fixed. Thank the Maker.
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Last post: Yesterday at 17:51
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:43
"P.S. If you don't use facebook or twitter, you really don't need to tell us how much you hate social networks in this thread"

Curses.
Callum x360a
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Callum x360a - If anybody has any Club Nintendo inserts in their DS and Wii games, if you don't need them, I'll take them. :)
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Last post: 11 May at 17:10
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:44
oxHARMONxo said:Sounds cool, but do I really want everyone to know how big of a nerd I am...Unless you aren't proud of your hobby, in which case, you should re-think it. I'm so proud of what I do, and have been doing nearly all of my life, that I couldn't care less what people think of it.
takuto neko
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takuto neko - xbox one....lulz...awesome name! will wait for e3 but otherwise no thanks...
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Last post: Yesterday at 05:11
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:44, Edited on 09 August 12 at 09:45 by takuto neko
I don't like these types of things in general..it has nothing to disliking social network sites..but seeing when a friend has gotten 'achievement after achievement is just like spam on places such as twitter or fb.
QuiCkz Ninja
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Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:45, Edited on 09 August 12 at 09:46 by QuiCkz Ninja
Fantastic :-)

but i have this message:

Ooops!

Something bad has occurred on the TrueAchievements website.

Our developers have been notified and are attempting to rectify the situation.
TrueAchievement - Massive respect to the Newshounds for their awesome write-ups of the event last night!
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Last post: Yesterday at 22:14
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:46
takuto neko said:I don't like these types of things in general..it has nothing to disliking social network sites..but seeing when a friend has gotten ' xx achievement' after achievement is just like spam on places such as twitter or fb.I agree with that, that's why it's only completed games and milestones. Should be reasonably rare posts for your average user.
QuickMythril
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Last post: 21 May at 04:30
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:47, Edited on 09 August 12 at 09:49 by QuickMythril
QuiCkz Ninja said:Fantastic :-)

but i have this message:

Ooops!

Something bad has occurred on the TrueAchievements website.

Our developers have been notified and are attempting to rectify the situation.
haha me too... i guess we were both just too "quick" to try this new feature... (posted using quick quote and quick reply)

actually i was too quick to jump on this one... not sure if i really want it to Auto-post... i'd like to have the option to pick and choose. i guess i'll see how it works, once... it... works... :)
Elyoh
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Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:49
TrueAchievement said:takuto neko said:I don't like these types of things in general..it has nothing to disliking social network sites..but seeing when a friend has gotten ' xx achievement' after achievement is just like spam on places such as twitter or fb.I agree with that, that's why it's only completed games and milestones. Should be reasonably rare posts for your average user.Or never in the case of most of my friends laugh Now here is hoping they won't read this...dive

I will probably end up linking this for completed games...will probably be my first FB post in...well, since I created it years ago laugh
DAD2206
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Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:50
Nice!
We were all n00b once ;-)
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Last post: Yesterday at 14:06
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:50
Sounds awesome! I will integrate my FB to TA sometime later today.
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takuto neko
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takuto neko - xbox one....lulz...awesome name! will wait for e3 but otherwise no thanks...
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Last post: Yesterday at 05:11
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:51
TrueAchievement said:takuto neko said:I don't like these types of things in general..it has nothing to disliking social network sites..but seeing when a friend has gotten ' xx achievement' after achievement is just like spam on places such as twitter or fb.I agree with that, that's why it's only completed games and milestones. Should be reasonably rare posts for your average user.But your above posts also mentions 'Achievement Wins' which is what made me think of my original comment.
TopherXPwns
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Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:51
Twitter's been doing fine for me since mine posts to my facebook but I know a few people who will take advantage of this for sure!
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Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:51
takuto neko said:I don't like these types of things in general..it has nothing to disliking social network sites..but seeing when a friend has gotten 'achievement after achievement is just like spam on places such as twitter or fb.I agree but as said its just a few things so not too bad.
Had it been every achievement I would have not done it
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Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:51
good work
matdan12
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Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:52
TrueAchievement said:takuto neko said:I don't like these types of things in general..it has nothing to disliking social network sites..but seeing when a friend has gotten ' xx achievement' after achievement is just like spam on places such as twitter or fb.I agree with that, that's why it's only completed games and milestones. Should be reasonably rare posts for your average user.Time to annoy whiny friends then. : ) Only reason to use facebook.
TrueAchievement - Massive respect to the Newshounds for their awesome write-ups of the event last night!
TrueAchievements AdministratorRegistered on 21 March 2008 (Year 1 - alpha)10,920 posts
Last post: Yesterday at 22:14
Posted on 09 August 12 at 09:55
Just a heads up - 3 of you have seen errors during the Auth process, 20 have done it successfully so far. Just added some additional code to try to see why the 3 failed - if you guys could try again that would be very helpful.