Anyone here using a Twitter auto-poster?

[Andrew Maule]

I see a lot of very "active" Twitter marketers but I'm under the impression most of them are using auto-poster/drip-feed style methods. How many of you use these? Any success? I'd love to use something like that since I don't have the time to be on Twitter much.

[Colin.MS]

I'm using Twitter. Only recently joined and most definitely not a gu-ru! I have discovered that people follow you even if you don't follow them. Don't know if that's good or bad ;-)

I'm trying not too push business too much but just post a few words about what's going on in my life. I guess it interest some people as I've got 52 followers.

I started by blindly following anyone who was pushing a business but now I only follow those who make interesting post. I think if you treat it like some kind of a dinner party where you discuss everything and anything and occasionally someone says what do you do for a living and hey presto a warm contact.

[birddog200]

Here are a few things that I use. I am going to leave off the .com

because I the mods will get mad if I use links in here. Hope this

helps you out.

- www.tweetlater

-www.twollo

Very helpful tools if you don't have a lot of time.

[Andrew Maule]

Originally Posted by birddog200

Here are a few things that I use. I am going to leave off the .com

because I the mods will get mad if I use links in here. Hope this

helps you out.

- www.tweetlater

-www.twollo

Very helpful tools if you don't have a lot of time.

Twollo looks awesome, how's that working out for you? How many people on average is it adding for you?

[birddog200]

It works very well. you can also choose to auto follow people

that follow you. And drop folks who stop following you. When I

first got theese tools, I set them and let it go for a week.

I had lots of new followers after that. They are FREE tools

so what the heck. Give it a try.

[birddog200]

You can also use some keywords on one of these tools and it will

auto follow people and often they will follow you back.

[HomeBizNizz]

I wrote a blogentry about some useful Twitter tools...

[orenrowz]

Andrew,
I use automation anywhere I can. I use my own application that my cousin developed and it automates everything - the tweets themselves that are relevant, following people, unfollowing people. It works great but this isn't about my tools. It's just to say that if you know what your target market is, and you go after it, then you'll have a following that's super targeted. It's great to have a large following (especially if it's all automated) but it's even better if they're targeted.
I for one don't use twitter for personal stuff. I only tweet about interesting stuff that's relevant to my target market because I want to give them great content. You should too. And it works. My recent account is for internet marketers and it averages a thousand new followers every week. Other niches average smaller numbers. I don't know why but that's what I've seen.
Until such time as I am willing to sell my application your best automation tools are twollow, tweetlater and also twitter karma for cleaning up your followers list.
I also suggest looking at twitterpacks to find out what are people's interest so you can target your twitter marketing.

Best of luck

[Jay_Mueller]

I use a WP plug-in that automatically posts a link to Twitter when I post a new article or when I update one.

However I acutally Tweet much more than my auto-poster posts.

[Rob Maggs]

Automation is the key! I use a combination of tools, autoblogs which update Twitter and I use a poster scheduler that I created which takes updates from a text file and posts them at regular intervals to Twitter.

All of my posts (well nearly all) use the Digg URL shortener, so I can monitor how many click throughs I get from my updates and so I can gauge what sales schpiel is working.

I also created a friend adder which works extremely well and got me to a couple of thousand followers within a couple of weeks. I then switched to manually adding people in my niche. I've made a lot of sales, but that could be because I was promoting a product for Twitter users.

I get a lot of traffic from Twitter and each update results in loads of clickthroughs. My new sites get indexed very quickly, my Alexa rankings are very good and my sales/ Adsense revenue have increased substantially and it's all down to automating my blogs and Twitter.

I do also occasionally manually update my Twitter profiles, to keep them human. Keeping Twitter automated, saves a lot of wasted time "tweeting" and also protects me from getting addicted.

[Lisa Gergets]

I use Tweetlater because my shop (TinkerAndPo on Etsy - Eco friendly fingerless gloves and accessories) sells seasonal items that only people in the southern hemisphere would find useful right now (fingerless gloves). I set my tweets to post when I'm asleep to reach those in Australia and New Zealand.