Q: Notification Center: no Facebook or Twitter notifications
Since I can remember, notifications for Facebook and Twitter simply will not work for me in OS X. I believe this issue started around the end of Mavericks and has now lasted well into Yosemite. I've tried literally everything: a complete clean install of Yosemite, deleting and re-adding Facebook and Twitter accounts in the Internet Accounts system preferences pane, logging in and out of iCloud, logging out or removing OS X integration under the security settings on Facebook and Twitter sites, double checking Notification Center settings and preferences for Facebook and Twitter, deleting the Notification Center folder and preference files in the user library, literally everything. Nothing changes. Every other app's notifications work flawlessly, but Facebook and Twitter do nothing.
I figured these features were simply broken either on Apple's end or on Facebook's or Twitter's, until I purchased a MacBook Air last week for my wife. Upon setting it up for her and adding her Facebook account, she immediately began receiving Facebook notifications in Notification Center and it still works flawlessly a week later. I've compared all of her settings to mine, and they're identical. I'm starting to think it's my account that's the problem. Searching the web yields limited results for this issue; it seems a small percentage of users experience the same issue I'm having but no solid fix has ever been discovered.
Does anyone have anything they can offer for me to try that I haven't yet? Thanks!
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Posted on Jun 4, 2015 12:23 PM
I solved it! You have the option to sign in to Facebook with either your email address or phone number. I've always used my email address (and used my email address on my wife's computer, and used her email address on my computer and hers) but I decided to delete the account then add it again, this time using my phone number and password. Instantly I began receiving notifications in Notification Center! I have no idea why this works, but it does.
Posted on Jun 5, 2015 5:22 PM
