Okay...so following up on my previous post, I think I have a workflow that will work for maintaining Twitter, Google+, and Facebook accounts simultaneously. This assumes that you want everything posted on all three, and that you seed from Facebook (there are definitely arguments for segregating them, but I'm going to try to limit my posts such that there's nothing one one I wouldn't want on the others...besides, this will only share things I directly post from Facebook to the other two networks).
Using an account on IfThisThenThat (IFTTT), it's all pretty easy. I made some of the recipes myself, but I bet they've all been made before if you want to search.
Basically you set up four simple recipes, one each for status updates and posted links, for both Twitter and Google+. (it's annoying that the status update recipe alone isn't enough, but apparently the two events are handled differently...).
Anyway, the Facebook-->Twiiter recipes are 100% straightforward, but the Google+ is a bit more complicated. I followed the tutorials here.
But with the four recipes made, anytime I post a link or status update to Facebook, it automatically pushes to Google+ and Twitter. Easy!
UPDATE: I switched to using Buffer the same day, as it makes sharing links to Facebook and Twitter super easy wit h a Chrome plugin (there are options for Firefox, Safari, etc.). Unfortunately it doesn't have support for Google+, so I'm still using the IFTTT recipe above for that.
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