Automate Twitter With Tweetlater

Twitter is a fantastic social tool for chatting, getting introduced to people you would otherwise have little hope of talking to, and following the news and trends of the day.

Once you really get into it though there are a couple of tasks you would like it to perform on your behalf. For example many people have gone to complicated lengths to follow everyone who follows them. I once considered that, but after a thousand or so people the system breaks down and there are just too many messages to keep up with.

Another aspect that would be nice to be built into the system is to pre-post messages to be delivered at a certain time, for example if you are going to be speaking at an event with a live feed it would be cool to say “Log on to xxx to hear my talk”.

Tweetlater is a service that aims to fill these gaps, and also has been used in a cunning way to help build a friends email list.

Firstly as the name suggest the service allows that pre-post idea, which is cool in itself.

But then if you register you will see there is an option to automate a “Send a Welcome Message” allowing you to welcome new followers either publically or privately – nice touch.

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Michel Fortin told me about this feature, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of it before. It really does make people feel welcomed, and so easy. I immediately thought about using it on my “chrisgarret” (the misspelled version) Twitter account to warn people they had followed the wrong one.

Then I heard from Dr Mani about a cool way he was going to use it to build his email list. His approach is much more automated and more directly builds his list but I have another approach based on the same idea. As an auto message offer a free download, which of course you get by subscribing. Twitter user meets you on Twitter, follows you, gets a greeting, clicks the link, signs up to email. Nice!

What other ways could this service be used?

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Web 2.0

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4 Responses to “Automate Twitter With Tweetlater”

  1. Cristina Favreau on September 2nd, 2008 6:01 pm

    Thanks for sharing this neat new service. Really cool. I’m checking it out now. I’m technologically inept, so I hope I set it up to it’s full capacity!

  2. Chris Garrett on September 2nd, 2008 7:45 pm

    I keep trying to test mine but all I get on Twitter at the moment is the “fail whale” :(

    Good luck!

  3. Emerson Matson on November 29th, 2009 1:00 am

    Interesting post Chris ( nice header fonts by the way, haha ), I’m sure everyone now-a-days wants to be warm and welcoming to their new Twitter followers. But, if you wouldn’t mind, there’s another service sprouting up called Robotir that goes up up and away with the features in terms of efficiency and simplicity. Check it out if you may.

  4. George185 on June 30th, 2010 2:13 am

    Thanks for the info. It looks like I’m really late to the party, but in my defense I only started about six months ago. This will help reduce my twitter time immensely I think.

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