Scheduling Tweets
Whenever I create a new blog post, or want to express to the world a new review of Disconnect – I usually Tweet and Facebook instantly.
That’s fine for the particular moment – but what about those that aren’t present to read/share it?
Scheduling Tweets is not a new thing – and there are loads of sites out there that allow you to schedule Tweets to occur during the day for long periods. I do get a little annoyed when I see the same tweet coming from the same person for hours, days, weeks, years on end with no variation.
Of course – some of you will jump up and down and state that you have seen me send the same type of Tweet at least 4 times during the day, and yes – I do.
I use a bit of kit called Bufferapp.
It’s free.
Allows me to schedule Tweets do go out 4 times a day;
They go out at 7:30am GMT, 12:30, 5:30 and 7:30pm
You can schedule links of pages; your own or someone else’s.
Manage multiple Twitter, FB, Linkedin Accounts
Use it on your smartphone
Get stats for which messages got the most clicks, RT, etc
Now then, I do like to tweet as much as possible, so although there will be 4 promoting tweets out there each day, my track record is approx 60 tweets per day.
So … at less than 10% portion of my tweets being promotions, surely that’s not too bad?
There is good practice to Twitter, and although I am not telling everyone to use Bufferapp to schedule, if those promotional tweets happen automatically, I can focus on tweeting in the weird and helpful way that I do.
It’s all part of managing time without seen to be spamming.
Do you use a scheduling tool for your posts?
