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A version per platform

One Buzz can carry its own text for each platform: type while LinkedIn is in view and LinkedIn gets its own version, while the other platforms keep the shared text.

The first account's text is the Buzz, and every other platform follows it until you change that platform's text.

Revert puts one platform back on the shared text, and Use this text everywhere puts every platform on the text in view.

Shared text and own text

The first disc in the composer's accounts row is the account the Buzz is written for first, and its text is the Buzz. You choose that account for new drafts with Write for this first in the set's New drafts (Social sets).

Every other platform follows the Buzz until you change its text. With a follower in view, the line under the accounts row says so, for example: Same text as LinkedIn. Type to give X its own.

A version belongs to a platform, not an account, so two LinkedIn accounts in one Buzz share LinkedIn's text. A version holds whole posts with their pictures, so X can get a thread of its own while LinkedIn gets one post.

Give a platform its own text

  1. 1. In the composer, press the platform's disc in the accounts row.

  2. 2. Type, add or remove a picture, or apply an Ask Buzz rewrite. The first change copies the Buzz into that platform's version and applies the change there.

There's no button to press first. A platform with its own text gets a honey dot on its disc, and the preview marks it Own text. When you schedule or post, the popover says which platforms get their own text.

Let Buzz rewrite it for a platform

  1. 1. Press the platform's disc in the accounts row.

  2. 2. Press Ask Buzz and pick Rewrite for X. The action is named after the platform in view.

  3. 3. Compare the versions and press Apply on the one you want.

Buzz writes for how people post on that platform, in your Hive voice, and the version you apply becomes that platform's own text. Ask Buzz and Hive check explains the versions.

Revert, or use one text everywhere

With a platform's own text in view, the line under the accounts row has two buttons. Each asks for a second press before it acts.

Revert drops this platform's version and puts it back on the Buzz. The first press turns the button into Back to LinkedIn's text, named after the first platform, and the second press drops the version.

Use this text everywhere makes the text in view the Buzz and drops every other platform's version. The first press turns it into Replace the other texts, and the second does it.

Versions Buzz makes for you

Some flows start a Buzz with versions already in it. From my picture in Ideas writes a caption per platform: Write it makes the first platform's caption the Buzz and gives every other platform its own. Framing a picture for one platform gives that platform its own version with the framed copy (Pictures and video).

Questions

Do two accounts on the same platform get different text?

No. A version belongs to the platform, so every account on it in that Buzz gets the same text.

Is the first comment part of a platform's version?

No. One first comment goes to every platform that takes one, and you write a separate one for a platform in the comment box itself.

Which text does Hive check score?

The text in view. Press another platform's disc and Hive check and the preview follow it.

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