How Getyn Social works with social networks

Have you ever wondered why certain social media tasks are slightly different in Getyn Social than they are in Instagram? Or what happens behind the scenes between Getyn Social and Facebook? This article defines some important social media terms and explains how Getyn Social and your social media accounts work together.

What are social networks?

A social network is a website that brings people, groups, organizations, and businesses together online. These groups may come together to share information, ideas, and stories—and, increasingly, to advertise and shop. Together, these types of virtual communities are known as social media. Popular social networks within social media include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube.

What is Getyn Social?

Getyn Social is a social media management tool—a service that connects many social media accounts in a central location for easy management. You might think of a social media management tool as a single portal into all of your social media accounts.

Connecting your social accounts to Getyn Social lets you manage them all in one place, rather than on each individual social network. This makes it easier and faster for you to share and schedule content to your social accounts, respond to and engage with your audiences, and work with teams to manage multiple accounts.

What is Getyn Social not?

Getyn Social is not a social network, nor can it control any of your personal settings in a social network. Getyn Social also doesn’t perform automatic publishing tasks unless you set it up to do so. From the perspective of social networks, Getyn Social is considered a third party. In other words, Getyn Social is an independent software service that is compatible with and complementary to the goals of social networks and their users.

How does Getyn Social work with social networks?

Because of the benefits it provides to social media users, Getyn Social has strong partnerships with many social networks. All of the major social networks have programmatic integrations (known as application programming interfaces, or APIs) that allow third parties like Getyn Social to access and share certain types of information.

Getyn Social, like every third party, is limited in what it can do by these API integrations, which vary by social network. Each social network connects to and works with Getyn Social in a different way, so the method for adding different social accounts to Getyn Social varies. You might also notice that certain types of streams are only available with certain social networks, the process for scheduling posts varies by social network, and certain social accounts disconnect more frequently than others. Differences in functionality occur for a variety of reasons, including:

• Limitations set by each social network
• The connection methods between Getyn Social and different social networks
• Features and capabilities of social networks that haven’t been made available to third parties such as Getyn Social

Both Getyn Social and our social media partners are always working to provide Getyn Social users with all the same capabilities that they have in the social networks.