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@ Mention Social Media Accounts in a Post

Discover how to mention accounts within the Content Calendar

Rodrigo Araujo avatar
Written by Rodrigo Araujo
Updated over 10 months ago

When composing a post on your Calendar you might want to include an @mention for accounts or business pages. Within Publish, you can utilize the @mention feature for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In this article, we will show you how to. conduct this process. Here are the type of accounts and pages you can @mention for each social account in Publish:

  • Facebook: you can @mention Facebook Pages

  • Instagram: you can @mention any Instagram account

  • Twitter: you can @mention any Twitter account

  • LinkedIn: you can @mention any LinkedIn Company or School Page

❗️If you are @mentioning an account on Mention, the Copy Content feature will be disabled in your composer. This is done to ensure that you do not mis-tag an account on social media. An account on one platform may have a different name on the other. Learn more here.


Facebook

You have the option of @mentioning Facebook Pages in your posts on the Calendar. To @mention a page, please follow these steps:

  1. Open the Composer by clicking on a time slot on the Calendar or using the 'Compose new post' button.

  2. Choose a connected Facebook Business Page to begin creating a post.

  3. Next, type "@" and write the name of the account. Mention will recognize your text and suggest accounts that you can @mention using a drop-down menu

  4. Please select the account that you want to mention from the menu. You are all set!

💡Tip: To ensure that you can find the correct page from the drop-down menu, please use the same username that appears on the Facebook Profile's URL. For example, Mention's URL on Facebook is facebook.com/mentionapp so we would type @mentionapp in the Calendar to @mention our page.


Twitter

On Publish, you have the option of @mentioning any Twitter account as long as you know the account's @handle name! Please follow the steps below to begin this process:

  1. Open the Composer by clicking on a time slot on the Calendar or using the 'Compose new post' button.

  2. Choose a connected Twitter account to begin creating a tweet.

  3. Next, type "@" and write the handle of the account. Mention will recognize your text and suggest accounts that you can mention using a drop-down menu

  4. Please select the account that you want to @mention from the menu. You are all set!


Instagram

You can @mention any account on Instagram using the @handle name of the profile. Please follow these steps to @mention an account on Instagram:

  1. Please open the Composer by clicking on a time slot on the Calendar or using the 'Compose new post' button.

  2. Choose a connected Instagram account and begin writing your post.

  3. Next, type "@" and please write the name of the handle in the same format that it appears on Instagram.

  4. Once your caption is ready, please schedule your post! The account will automatically @mentioned on Instagram's native platform when your post is published.


LinkedIn

You can @mention LinkedIn Company pages or School pages at any time using the URL of the page. Please follow these steps to @mention an account on LinkedIn:

  1. First you will need to go to the LinkedIn platform and find the page you want to @mention. Please copy the URL of the page.

  2. Next, go back to Mention and open the Composer by clicking on a time slot on the Calendar or using 'Compose new post' button.

  3. Choose a connected LinkedIn page to begin creating a post

  4. Next, please write @ and paste the URL of the page onto your composer.

  5. From there, a drop-down menu will appear with the page that you are mentioning. Please click on the page to confirm. You're all set from there!


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