Patent ID: 8296380

Claim:
A method of message distribution, the method performed in a distributed social media messaging system having one or more processors accessing one or more databases comprising user account records including user credential information for one or more social media hosting systems, the one or more databases being stored in at least one storage device coupled to the one or more processors, the method comprising: receiving at a distributed social media messaging system a first message from a sender of a first client system comprising a web browser, a graphical user interface and an operating system, the message to be transmitted to a social media hosting system comprising account records; receiving at the distributed social media messaging system selection information from the sender, the selection information indicating which one or more users of the social media hosting system are to be recipients of the first message; the distributed messaging system retrieving a first user credential of a selected first social media user account, the first user credential comprises a first authentication token; the distributed social media messaging system packaging the first message and the first user credential into a first message package; concatenating an API URL of the first social media hosting system with the first message and storing the result of the concatenation in a first standard class variable of a cURL library function; storing the first authentication token in a second class variable of cURL library function; and the distributed social media messaging system transmitting the first message package to a first social media hosting system of which the first user is a user to activate the account of the first user to induce, the first social media hosting system to distribute the first message according to the operation of the social media hosting system to users of the social media hosting system that include predetermined recipients of the first social media user account.