According to the Ryan Bell, CEO of TwAitter: TwAitter has been in contact with Twitter over their rumored decision to recognize “recurring” tweets as SPAM.
As of Wednesday, November 3rd, the recurring tweets feature on TwAitter will be turned off permanently. Any recurring tweets already scheduled for the following week will continue to send until Monday, November 8th. At that time all recurring tweets will be automatically set to “paused” and the software that facilitates the sending of recurring messages will be turned off. Recurring Messages will return to TwAitter via our Ping.fm integration due out in the coming weeks. Users will be able to post recurring messages through any of the social media networks supported by Ping.fm (with the exception of Twitter)
Well that’s pretty crappy news, now what do I do?
I’m sure the Execs at Twitter have their reasons for pulling the plug on “recurring Tweets” but so what! Who has time to sit on Twitter all day long and post Tweets to your Followers and feed to bear in order to generate the traffic that this mega social networking site brings? I sure don’t and I doubt many of you do either.
How do you define “Work-Around”?
TwAitter was nice while it lasted. It was free and I could upload my Tweets on Monday and be done with Tweeting till Friday. As of November 3rd, I had to find an alternative method. The challenge I was faced with was to find a tool (or a combination of tools) that did everything TwAitter did. Here’s what I did to solve the problem without having to spend a ton of money replacing the Free TwAitter tool.
The first thing I did was find a tool that would enable me to schedule my Tweets. I talked to some buddies of mine and they pointed me to Ken Reno’s tool called Tycoon Scheduler. This took care of the scheduled Tweets issue. Then I had to find a tool to Un-Follow users who weren’t adding value to my social network and a way to search Twitter “trends” and the keywords that are in sync with the various niche markets I am active in along with a way to Follow the Leaders Followers and Who the Leaders Follow. This is where LabTweets come in.
A Small Investment Goes a Long Way
The Tycoon Scheduler tool has 3 options. Option one is Free. The other two options cost money but with the investment comes revenue generating Resale rights, so long as you’re willing & able to host the service and administer the user signs ups etc. I’m considering doing this, once I know Tycoon Scheduler does the job and for the past 10 days, so far so good. The good news is, this LabTweets Twitter Marketing Tool is very robust and for $50 , it’s a real bargain.
LabTweets Twitter Marketing Software Allows Me To:
- Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts
- Following & Un-Follow Users
- Send Auto Replies
- Send Direct Messages
- Set My Default Automation Settings
- Set My Super Tweets
The LabTweets Tool only set me back $47 and its already paid for itself a few times.
Super Tweets are Like Recurring Tweets on Steroids
Super Tweets with the Turbo Mode running is a pretty powerful combination. Once you set your preferences, load your Super Tweet, all you have to do is make sure you don’t turn your PC off (no MAC version yet). The Super Tweet will send your Tweet every 2 minutes to the defined number of users. The pros and cons are still being studied on this one, but the Tool is more than adequate for most of us who use Twitter for connecting with people in multiple niche markets.
Buy it Once, Use if Forever
Unlike many of the Twitter subscription services, LabTweets is a desktop application, so you install it once and use it forever. Unlike Social-Oomp, TwitAdder (and many others) that set you back $29.95 a month. No thanks. I prefer to buy my tools, install it once and use it forever (with free life-time updates). That’s the same process I used when I bought the New Micro Niche Finder v. the more popular Word Tracker keyword research tool. Micro Niche Finder only cost me $97 bucks, but now I own it and all my upgrades are Free forever. This is the only way to go when I buy software, unless the membership routine is the only option available.
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Twitter Reference Sites
It would be a wise to stay in sync with the Twitter developer community ~ links to their Forum and Wiki
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There are two aspects one must think before implementing any changes.
1) Nearly all the twitter users are fed-up with repeating tweets. The system has become spammy .
2) Its coz of repeating tweets webmasters use this. If this features is turned off, no great personality will use it.
This is Ryan from Twaitter. It is important to note that the services sited above as being a solution to Twitter turning off the ability to have recurring messages also apply to both software tools you stated. We’ve been informed that Tycoon and TweetLabs have both been contacted by Twitter to remove the recurring features as well.
While we disagree with Twitter’s decision to force Twaitter to remove recurring tweets, we abide by it as we wish to remain a respected member of the developer community.
Twaitter still fully supports scheduling of tweets. The article seems to imply that it doesn’t.
Thank you for writing on this topic.
Ryan
http://www.twaitter.com