Is anyone interested in automating relevant and usefull tweets to fill their twitter accounts with?

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I've developed an automation script that basically automates everything on twitter for you, including the actual tweets.
I'm not talking about spamming twitter, but rather, being able to automatically post tweets that are relevant and add value, targeted to what you see as relevant to tweet about.

It does everything else you might expect, following and defollowing people, tweets about your affiliate links etc etc etc.
But the killer app for me is its ability to automatically tweet relevant tweets. Literally, you set it up once and it fully automates your twitter account. So you have a full blown twitter account and if you want to add tweets then just do it. But you don't have to waste all that time to get a decent twitter account going, with lots of content.

My recent tests show that for the internet marketing niche for example, it gets around a thousand new followers a week. And, they retweet some of the tweets as well so you know the tweets are not spammy.


I'm using it for my own but have gotten several requests to offer this to the public. If you think this could be interesting and you think I should do this, if you think this is something you'd be willing to pay for, then please email me - orenrowz at gmail dot com and tell me what you think.

If I offer this, I'll give out the first applications to the people that reply to me here as a way of saying thanks for the replies.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    Having a bot run the account completely misses the point of being on Twitter, or any social media service for that matter. Not interested at all.
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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by Dan Grossman View Post

      Having a bot run the account completely misses the point of being on Twitter, or any social media service for that matter. Not interested at all.
      What he said. Twitter doesn't want this. Twitter's users don't want this. That's a bad combination.
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  • Profile picture of the author iw433
    Hey I think you may very well have some great potential. I would be interested in something like that.
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  • Profile picture of the author ikontent
    Hey, this sounds interesting.

    Is it a desktop app, or a web script?

    Does it have the following capabilities :

    a) automatically repeat a specific tweet at periodic intervals (example : repeat this message daily for the next 5 days, or repeat this message 10 times at 2 hourly intervals)

    b) following back with a direct message : when someone follows you, the app follows back + sends a direct message...

    I know there are other tools which have some of these; looking for a "swiss army knife" type twitter tool..
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hill
    Any kind of automated script for posting tweets or any other social interactive site such as FaceBook is a complete waste of time... You have to be in the conversation not taking part in creating the noise..

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  • Profile picture of the author ecoverbox
    I would be interested. Please send me some more info.
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    • Anything to make my life easier is appreciated, and I think I can control the amount of actual interaction effort I put forth. @replies and DMs are something I manage. I think you've got some potential here.

      Sure, it will be abused, but smart marketers will use it to their advantage.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketing2day
    I have used a similar service called tweetlater. That way I can make useful tweets when people are on twitter.

    Tweetlater is free. I'm not sure if it has the same capabilities your service would have. You may be able to charge if your service is easier to use.
    You may be able to charge if you target your service to a niche group.

    Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author summerm
    fascinating. am i understanding this correctly that it actually creates interesting tweets? what is the input it uses for this, what's the database of knowledge it pulls from? i don't think anyone would have a problem with a nice interesting robot. better than a dull human. go AI!
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Dolan
    With anything automated there is a big downside. Having said that there are things that are worth automating when it comes to tweets ...

    What about automating replies to everyone who asked a particular question? You could search using the advanced search and operators, or you could automate it.

    But if you are too general in your search your replies will be irrelevant for some.

    It is a trade off. But I would never write off completely tools that automate laborious tasks without thinking about what use it may or may not have.

    Of course as someone who makes tools to do that stuff I would say that wouldn't I. But we use Google for the same thing. To organise things we are looking for into a relevant list. Rather than try to go through all web pages 1 by 1.

    Just my .02 c

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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    people are still getting used to the automated dm's without doing this. People say they like following me and interacting with me on twitter because im real and dont automate everything.

    Theres only one thing i would automate on twitter and thats a robot that will go through all my direct messages for me!

    kind regards


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    • Profile picture of the author orenrowz
      Thank you all for your input. I'm getting both sides of this, some are all for it, some are not.
      But I think I haven't made myself clear as some of the responses I got (also by mail and PM) were refering tweetlater, automatic canned response tweets and such.
      I'm not talking about that.
      I'm talking about the equivalent of hiring someone to go on twitter several times a day and tweet about things that are of interest to the audience you're targeting. Once you have that stream of content, you can always add more to the mix by tweeting yourself, but you don't have to and you don't have to be sucked into wasting a lot of time on twitter (which I know happens to me and that's were I got the idea from for this).

      I hope I explained it better this time. Does this change anyone's opinion on this?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    No.

    Even RSS-to-Twitter accounts look clearly automated and earn an unfollow.

    Social media is about real human participation. If you look at someone's profile and there are fewer @replies than new tweets linking out to things, that's not someone you'll ever personally connect with. And personal connections are what drive the business value of using it at all.

    Unless you've invented true AI that would pass a Turing test, it's not going to start joining @conversations in a meaningful way, which means it's no better than the dumb RSS-to-Twitter parsers.
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