Sweet Tweet Tips

It’s smart to schedule the same tweet at different times of the day, month, or year. Your followers’ online habits are predictable individually, but vary collectively as to timing and frequency.  You don’t have to struggle to find new content, since your duplicate tweets will be new to many of your followers.

Take care not to schedule tweets too far in that future if they contain dates or trendy information. Don’t always post your own tweets.  Tweet news, quotes, information or articles from other websites.  Get personal by posting about things you’re passionate about (I periodically post my recipes, travel tips, etc.)   And of course go to Twitter at least once a day to see if you can retweet the posts of your connections, chat about an interesting post, or comment on someone else’s post.

Below are 3 programs I’ve used that put your tweets on auto-pilot. The first two that I mention offer both a free and paid version. Usually, free versions of apps tack on an “ad” — the name of the app company at the very least — to the end of each message you post.

http://www.gremln.com/

http://hootsuite.com/

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

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