Tweet Later – Tools to Boost Your Productivity on Twitter

Do you use Twitter? If you do, may I ask again, do you use Twitter? I’m betting many of you don’t. This is not a post about hot to get a million zillion followers it six days. It’s about using the service by Tweet Later, and actually getting your message seen.

The Tweet Later Service

Tweet Later has several valuable services, but what I value most is the ability to tweet you later, and repeatedly. Yes, I say the same thing twice or more on Twitter, and if you don’t, I would have to say you don’t know how to use Twitter. Let’s take the example that I have 10,000 followers. If I were to post just one update on Twitter that I had a new poll, how many of those 10,000 people do you think will see it? I’d bet under ten.

If you are lucky maybe 1% of your visitors will see your tweets if made only once. Let’s do some quick math based on a few assumptions. Let’s assume that 85% of all of your followers are within +/- eight hours of your time zone. That means about 15% will miss your tweet simply because they are sleeping. Next, let’s assume your awake follower follows many others, and checks their Twitter accounts semi-aggressively, say once an hour for ten hours a day. If that agressive Twitter checker follows just 100 people that update six times a day on average, that’s 25 tweets an hour. Your post? Gone, pushed below the other tweets in a mere hour. If you follow 3,000+ like I am, your tweet is pushed down 500 or more tweets in an hour. I am lucky if I see it. Basically, I will at best, only rarely see your updates, unless of couse you retweet later.

How I Tweet Later

Tweet Later offers two different plans. A free one, and the professional one for $29.97 per month. I would suggest getting the professional service if you are even kind of using Twitter for marketing purposes. They give you a free trial period, so really, no risk to try it. The reality of Twitter is mentioned above. Marketing on Twitter is like standing at a street corner selling a product. If you are not there, neither are sales. With Tweet Later you can always be there.

Here are a few reasons why the paid version is way more important than the free version.

• You can schedule DM’s and replies to others when they get online and start using Twitter – Imagine that value.
• Schedule Tweets to repeat – The free one limits to doing this manually,  scheduling every single update. Way to time consuming. The pro version let’s you update endlessly.
• Filter your timelines – This is almost evil! Follow thousands, but really only see your best buddies. That is how to Tweet!
• Manage multiple accounts – I only have one so not to valuable to me, but I am sure it is to many of you.
• Mute/block annoying tweeters
• Include keyword following in the timeline you read – If you are tracking a keyword this is essential.

Scheduling future and repeated tweets is a must, and there is nothing better than getting a followers attention than sending him or her a message right when they get online.

Twitter Toolbar

The final note about the value of Tweet Later. I have found it such a valuable tool I have added a link to it in my Twitter Toolbar menu. I really believe that if you want to be heard on Twitter you need to say it loud, and you need to say it often. Anyone care to guess how many times I will tweet this post? I guarantee it will be more than ten times.

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