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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

eBay + Facebook + twitter

I really like the way I can import specific listings from eBay to my Facebook page. Do you use that function? Just click on the little Facebook icon on the lower right of your item’s description and it will let you put it on your Facebook page for everyone to see. It also puts your item picture with the listing.

But eBay tends to constantly fiddle with its settings. A couple of months ago I found that when I tried to send one listing to Facebook, the picture didn’t appear with the description. After two weeks, it straightened up and the picture was back. And, just this morning, it started doing that again! I certainly hope it doesn’t take another two weeks to get back to normal.

There’s also a twitter icon you can use (right next to the FB icon). When you choose that one your title goes to twitter along with a shortened URL to your listing. I often joke that twitter users will click on anything--if you have a lot of twitter followers, your viewer stats will go up immediately!