Connecting Your First Platform
OAuth, why we never post on a Vyrable-owned account, and which platform to connect first.
Vyrable doesn't post on your behalf from a generic Vyrable account. Every post that goes live carries your handle, your face, your followers. Getting that working means connecting each platform once via OAuth, after which we can publish to it as if you'd typed the post yourself.
This article walks through the connection flow, explains why we built it this way, and gives you a recommended order if you're going to connect more than one.
Why OAuth
OAuth is the protocol that lets one application post on behalf of another, with permission. When you connect LinkedIn through Vyrable, you're authorising us to use your account in narrow, specific ways: read your profile, write a post, fetch the engagement on posts we made.
Three things matter about this:
You stay in control. You can revoke our access at any time from the platform's own settings. We're a delegate, not an owner.
You get the algorithm boost. Posts from your authentic account perform better than posts from third-party accounts. Algorithms penalise "this was sent via Buffer" footers. There's no footer here.
No password sharing. OAuth is the credential pattern that lets you delegate without ever giving us your password. If we got hacked tomorrow, our database doesn't contain a single password belonging to a customer.
Which platform to connect first
The honest answer: the one where you already have an audience.
If that's LinkedIn, connect LinkedIn first. If it's X, connect X. If you're starting from zero, connect LinkedIn — it's the platform with the lowest friction for professional content and the most generous algorithm for new accounts that post consistently.