
Squidoo and Twitter have quite a nice little relationship going.
You can feature your latest Tweets in your lens, you can build a Twttrlist list lens, or a Twttrstrm lens, and of course just promote your latest lenses on Twitter!
So I thought I would put together a nice and easy list of….
Some ways to automate your Twitter account:
1. Schedule Tweets: With TweetLater.com you can set up as many tweets as you like to post on set dates in the future. Beyond the obvious ones like Christmas and other Holidays, you could do things with special offers, promoting your relevant webpages and lenses at the right time of year, every year, and even keep your profile active while you go on vacation or something. Scheduling Tweets sounds trivial but it can prove to be very useful indeed.
2. Automatically Follow People Who Follow You: Twitter is great at connecting you with a huge audience… but the strains of a huge audience are obvious. How can you possibly keep up with everyone who follows you? Twitter is meant to help you do the things you do right now, but better! It’s not means to steal hours from you every day. If you follow me on any of my Twitter accounts you’ll see me follow you back within minutes, automatically. Very useful indeed. This is from TweetLater.com also.
3. Automate Direct Messages: When you follow me on any of my accounts, and I follow you back automatically, you will get a Direct Message from me saying hi. You can set your own automatic direct message to say whatever you like. Advice: Don’t just say hello and ask them to check out your website. That sucks. Connect with people instead. Try asking a question, and maybe asking for them to @reply instead of DM reply. Note: I have turned this feature off now, just because I hate Direct Messages. People were replying to me and I would never remember to check to reply.
4. Turn any RSS feed into Twitter posts: This will apply to you if you post content on any of the following sites – Wordpress, Squidoo, BlogSpot, Tumblr, Typepad, HubPages, EzineArticles, YouTube, Flickr, Delicious, actually pretty much any modern website! Use TwitterFeed.com to set up an “RSS Feed To Twitter”. It’s all automatic from then on!
5. Unfollow People Who Are Not Following You: If you follow people on Twitter in the hope they will follow you back, and sadly find out that some don’t, you can use buzzom.com to help you unfollow them. It’s a bit weird only following people in the hope they will follow you back, but life is like that sometimes.
6. Use TweetAdder: If you are looking for something a LOT more powerful to automate your Twitter Tasks I would recommend TweetAdder to you!
I have just started using TweetAdder, and I would recommend it highly. It does exactly what it says it will do, and will help you do everything you could possibly imagine to automate your Twitter account.
It is like the Holy Grail of Twitter account management.
And that’s how I roll
Question: In what ways do YOU automate your Twitter account?
Question: Do you think automating your Twitter account will bring you bad twitter karma?
Lewis
July 8th, 2009 |
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