This Week in Zapier - the week of April 26th

Every week, one of our external moderators, @AndrewJDavison_Luhhu, sends out a newsletter of weekly goings-on in the world of Zapier along with guides, resources and other interesting bits.

You can check out the latest edition here.

Let’s check out this week’s stuff:

Twitter shut down SMS notifications. Here's how to keep getting them.

Twitter won't be sending out SMS notifications anymore, but if you're from the UK/US you can set up a zap that sends you an SMS.... for your tweets or just about any other reason you think is useful.

A beginners guide to Zapier for accountants

Accounting, perhaps more than many other industries, involves a *lot* of repetitive work, making it ripe for some zap-based innovation. 

This is a great guide to get you started with Zapier (even if you're not an accountant, actually).

Zapier just released its Instagram for Business integration

Before now, owners of an Instagram for Business account were out of luck when it came to automating their posts.

Buffer is a (great) option, but not ideal if you don't want to spend extra on yet another tool.

So, the Zapier team came to the rescue…

Need to use two variables in your Zapier Filter steps? We've got a hack for you!

If you're a regular user of the Zapier Filter step, you'll probably have got frustrated by the fact that you can only compare a variable value to a fixed value.

But, what if we told you there was a clever way to make it possible?

Can Zapier sync my historical data? (Sort of)

This question comes up from clients quite often. If you're building a zap to sync new contacts from one app to another, it would be great if Zapier could do it for the existing ones as well, right?

Sadly, Zapier isn't built for that, but there is a way to get it done if you don't mind some extra steps

Plant Trees with Offset Earth

You really can automate almost anything these days... including planting a tree to help save the planet.

A Brief History of No-code

The whole #nocode movement may feel like a pan flash of a recent phenomenon, but the idea of being able to make computers do stuff without programming goes all the way back to 1985 and Microsoft Excel.

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