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Connectors
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* [Home](help)
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Connectors allow you to connect with external social networks and services.
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They are only required for posting to existing accounts on Twitter or GNU Social.
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There is also a connector for accessing your email INBOX.
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If the following network connectors are installed on your system, select the following links to visit the appropriate settings page and configure them for your account:
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* [Twitter](/settings/addon)
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* [GNU Social](/settings/addon)
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* [Email](/settings)
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Instructions For Connecting To People On Specific Services
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Friendica
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You can either connect to others by providing your Identity Address on the 'Connect' page of any Friendica member.
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Or you can put their Identity Address into the Connect box on your [Contacts](contacts) page.
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Diaspora
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Add the Diaspora 'handle' to the 'Connect/Follow' text box on your [Contacts](contacts) page.
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GNU Social
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This is described as the "federated social web" or OStatus contacts.
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Please note that there are **no** privacy provisions on the OStatus network.
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Any message which is delivered to **any** OStatus member is visible to anybody in the world and will negate any privacy settings that you have in effect.
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These messages will also turn up in public searches.
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Since OStatus communications do not use authentication, if you select the profile privacy option to hide your profile and messages from unknown viewers, OStatus members will **not** be able to receive your communications.
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To connect with an OStatus member insert their profile URL or Identity address into the Connect box on your [Contacts](contacts) page.
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The GNU Social connector may be used if you wish posts to appear on an OStatus site using an existing OStatus account.
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It is not necessary to do this, as you may 'follow' OStatus members from Friendica and they may follow you (by placing their own Identity Address into your 'Connect' page).
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Blogger, Wordpress, RSS feeds, arbitrary web pages
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Put the URL into the Connect box on your [Contacts](contacts) page.
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PLease note that you will not be able to reply to these contacts.
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This feed reader feature will allow you to _connect_ with millions of pages on the internet.
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All that the pages need to have is a discoverable feed using either the RSS or Atom syndication format, and which provides an author name and a site image in a form which we can extract.
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Twitter
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To follow a Twitter member, the Twitter-Connector (Addon) needs to be configured on your node.
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If this is the case put the URL of the Twitter member's main page into the Connect box on your [Contacts](contacts) page.
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To reply, you must have the Twitter connector installed, and reply using your own status editor.
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Begin the message with @twitterperson replacing with the Twitter username.
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Email
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If the php module for IMAP support is available on your server, Friendica can connect to email contacts as well.
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Configure the email connector from your [Settings](settings) page.
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Once this has been done, you may enter an email address to connect with using the Connect box on your [Contacts](contacts) page.
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They must be the sender of a message which is currently in your INBOX for the connection to succeed.
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You may include email contacts in private conversations.
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