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5 Free Twitter Automation Tools

2010-02-03T16:50:00.000-08:00

There are several tools available that can schedule tweets to post at a specific time on Twitter; they can be handy for a number of reasons. For example, you could create several tweets for Monday through Friday with a list of the guests that will be appearing on your podcast or radio show. You could also schedule tweets at different days of the week announcing special promotions for your small business, restaurant or whatever. These scheduled tweets could also simply be reminders for your followers about anything else going on in your life such as a tweetup, convention or other event. Scheduled tweets can also be good for those that want to post something for their international friends or clients in different time zones.

With these tools, you are no longer required to send your tweets in real time, because you can write them in advance, making them a perfect solution for those of us who can’t find the time to jump on Twitter on a consistent, regular basis. Whenever you find a pocket of time for Twitter, you can sit down, write several tweets, and queue them up to post at a later date.

Here are some of the better free Twitter automation tools that I’ve seen. There are a few good tools that require a paying a fee, but the selections in this roundup are all free, with some of them offering a more advanced premium package, should you want or need it.

Twuffer does one thing only: sending tweets you place in its queue at the times you schedule. Nothing fancy, just a simple calendar-based interface to pick when you want your tweet to go live.

SocialOomph (an app formerly known as TweetLater) provides a suite of tools, including a free edition that includes the ability to schedule your tweets.It also provides a premium suite that includes additional tools for Twitter and Facebook automation. However, if all you want to do is schedule your tweets then the free version will do the trick. There are a couple of extra perks that I’d like to mention here. Besides scheduling tweets, the free edition of SocialOomph also lets you create and save drafts of tweets that you can reuse over and over again. While that might smack of spamming, it could actually provide some non-nefarious benefits as well, particularly if you often end up writing similar tweets. The other features I like is that it lets you use your own URL shortening service such as Bit.ly, and you can also schedule tweets to publish to multiple Twitter accounts.

FutureTweets doesn’t take the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach that SocialOomph does but it does schedule tweets rather well. If that’s all you need, than this one will work for you.

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HootSuite is a popular Twitter client that happens to include the ability to schedule your tweets for future posting. You can access HootSuite via its web site or any number of special desktop apps and browser add-ons. You can view, edit or delete scheduled tweets from a column called “Pending Tweets.”

Twaitter (soon to be renamed Gremlin) is another powerful suite of free services that includes a scheduler for tweets. The thing I like about this one is that it also connects to Ping.fm, which means you can not only schedule posts to Twitter but also to many other social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. It also includes an option to save drafts and includes follow management tools.

CoTweet is designed for organizations with multiple Twitter accounts and/or multiple Twitter members that work as a team to manage their online presence. Included in its arsenal of useful tools is the tweet scheduler, which has a calendar that helps schedule your tweets. Another handy tool is the ability to assign tweets as if they were tasks, thus giving your account a project manager (of sorts) for Twitter.

There you have it, just some of the free ways that you and your organization can schedule to Twitter, and some other social networks as well. Some of these services include an option to schedule recurring tweets, which could violate Twitter’s Terms of Service. Both Twitter and its members frown upon such behavior because spammers have abused this kind of feature; think twice before setting up recurring tweets too often.

Buy Twitter follower on Ebay, each less than 1 cent

2010-02-02T16:56:00.000-08:00

In the Ebay search for "Twitter followers", you will find that spending tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of U.S. dollars will be able to get the Twitter follower: as 5,000 followers Price 40 U.S. dollars (equivalent to 0.4 per cent); 1,100 followers (secured) Price 10 U.S. dollars (0.9 cents per )....

Techcrunch claims a way to create a Twitter account is to use the bot, another method is to use China's cheap labor to create a Twitter Follower farms (similar to the network Gold game farms).
China's online farmer to create thousands of Twitter account to follow other accounts.

Another twitter style theme for WordPress

2010-01-30T05:01:00.000-08:00

"Retweet" is a free wordpress theme which designed by a chinese blogger Sinvan.It is a twitter like theme and it have all styles that twitter have.You can modify it like your twitter by theme option page.It is very stylish, widget supported and doesn’t require any plugin.

Related tags:
2 columns, fixed width, support Widget, nested comments, background options, custom color.

Theme version:
0.9.9 (20,090,825)

Support version:
WordPress 2.7 or later

Theme Download:
Official Directory

Test Validation:
By IE6/7/8, Firefox3.5, Opera 9, Safari 4, and Chrome 3.0 browser to test, through the
XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 3 certification.

Main functions:

Support Wordpress2.7 nested message, separation and calculate the number of comments and TB.
Titles, abstracts SEO.
Comment Form Auto-save, keyboard shortcuts for comment.
Modify the browser the title of the published comments on the user welcome message.
Two kinds of browse mode, suitable for wide-screen, the background mode can be set to default browser, and save the reader through the cookie settings.
Support Chinese and English.
Support custom Feed address without the need to replace the theme.
Description of the background set the home page, content pages automatically.
The default background with five kinds of styles and patterns.
Set the background color of the background theme pictures.
Background Set Bulletin Board.
Twitter updates, and background set to display all entries, blank display the latest articles.
Set whether to use Logo background image.
Set the background to use rounded border.
The background can be opened @ reply feature. (New)
Support the rel = "external" pop-up a new window, and better meet the W3C standards.
The page automatically display commonly used bookmarks Bookmarklet.
Subject Language:
This version supports English and Simplified Chinese, in which English is the default setting.
To use the English version of Simplified Chinese, please perform the following steps (Wordpress Chinese users do not need this step):

Open the WordPress root directory of the file wp-config.php
Find define ( 'WPLANG',''); and be revised as define ( 'WPLANG', 'zh_CN');
Installation Method:

Upload retweet directory to the wordpress's / wp-content/theme / directory.
Wordpress into the background, in appearance - the theme, select Retweet and open.
In appearance - "Retweet Options" page to set the theme styles.
Open the blog to see results.

wonderful Trending Topics

2010-01-01T07:10:00.000-08:00

New year's day.What a wonderful Trending Topics,need to say anything?

Happy New year!

Backup twitter with RSS reader

2009-11-28T06:52:00.000-08:00

With regard to the need for backup twitter, My previous article already mentioned, and now to log in twitter page directly is more and more difficult in china, and even turning the great fire wall. The use of the client is prone to throw to push the phenomenon, so, the backup becomes even more important.

Backup twitter with RSS Reader is the most simple and effective way, and directly to the twitter address (if http://twitter.com/wangyueblog) thrown into the reader, you can push himself issued a non-leak the preservation of down, of course, if you are so chatter, then your reader is not reading it will be considerable.

However, this method can only subscribe to push issued, if you want to push the Friends of @ reply and retweet for all subscriptions, you can subscribe to search results approach. In the twitter search up your own user name, and then address can subscribe by reader.

If pushed very difficult, you can refer to this address http://search.twitter.com/search?q = wangyueblog (will wangyueblog into your own twitter user name).

Mentioned above, using subscribe to search results the way to back up twitter, In fact, this method also can have more uses.

The most widely used is the access to information, twitter voluminous information on each time to search is not only cumbersome but also over the mountains. Why not be the information you need to search results directly to do with the RSS reader Subscribe?

For example, I need to get twitter on about "WordPress theme" in the article, then the search results http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wordpress+theme can subscribe by reader.

And so on, Google's search results can also subscribe by reader.

Warning: Do not do too much, too many subscribe to search results could cause readers flooded with spam messages.

update: If your reader supports user name and password, you can http:// [username]: [password] @ twitter.com / statuses / replies / [username]. rss format subscription twitter @ reply.

Are they TWINS

2009-04-09T19:22:00.000-07:00

DO you think this china boy looks like Shin Chan?Yes,91.1%
match!This interesting picture comes from twinsornot.In this area,you can add yours' or your friends' photos and then vote to another.

TwinsOrNot was built so anybody can make humorous observations regarding the physical likeness between themselves, their friends, famous people, cartoon characters, politicians and even objects. Simply upload your two separate images to TwinsOrNot.com and let the community decide! Discuss who looks like and who doesn't using our comments page.

Are they Twins?
Users are welcomed to vote on other people's uploaded images. Votes will be counted and a match percentage will indicate how many people agree with your observation.

Add Your Delicious Links to Tiwtter

2009-04-07T18:50:00.000-07:00

If you use Twitter, you must know how valuable sometimes the links we're sharing, and how hard it is to find them later on (especially because of Twitter search limitations). With Tweecious this scenario is bygone! Tweecious is a Firefox addon that scans your tweets and automatically saves them into your Delicious account. The best part, you don't have to do nothing. Just download the plugin, and make sure you logged into both Twitter & Delicious. After the download, go to this page and click enabled. Tweecious can also retroactively scan 100 of your latest tweets, and save the links you've submitted in them (you can choose to save the links in public or private mode).

In addition, you'll be able to see the related tweets in the description of the URLs, in your delicious:

Tweet This Text

2009-04-02T20:24:00.000-07:00

TweetThisText is brought to you by the crew at Happy Stapler. We like to find opportunities and build solutions. TweetThisText is another of those solutions.
We're on twitter most of the time. We noticed that we'd really like to be able to quote text from webpages without having to shorten a link and say something like "It's in the second para fr the bottom third sentence in."

We code and we design. We saw all the pieces and decided to bring them all together, staple them if you will, and make a new thing from the parts. It makes us happy to do this stuff.
If you already made your bookmarklet, highlight the text below and click your new bookmark to give it a test run.

Twitter Confirms Paid Pro Accounts

2009-03-26T18:37:00.000-07:00

More revenue for Twitter on the way: The company confirms -- for the first time we've seen, at least -- age-old theories that they'll sell commercial accounts to power users or companies using Twitter.

In exchange for a fee, companies could get "more features" on Twitter, the WSJ reports. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone tells the WSJ that the company recently hired a product manager to help develop those accounts, but doesn't specify what the extra features will be or when the accounts will launch.

This makes perfect sense. There's a lot of stuff companies would pay Twitter for, such as a way to verify the company rep's legitimacy; to more analytics and information about who is reading their Twitter page; to better tracking features to see what people are saying about their company.

What would you pay for an account like this? We could see a lot of companies paying $10 or $20 a month for the service, even for simple tools. But we could also see many companies -- Comcast, JetBlue, Starbucks, etc. -- paying more than one hundred dollars per month for really good, insightful tools.

Twitter charges postponed version

2009-03-26T05:44:00.001-07:00

Twitter is a popular micro-blog website, has been in a free stage before, while the website itself does not advertisement, which makes
Twitter has become the biggest profit problem. Twitter has reported that before the introduction of charges will be versions of "Pro" account, but Twitter
Did not confirm that today the Wall Street Journal reported that, Twitter has confirmed that version of the upcoming major account charges.

TechCrunch UK quoted before, according to Marketing magazine, Twitter's Biz Stone, co-founder of the open
Intention to stand for some through Twitter to engage in commercial activities or profit-making user fees, for the general user will continue to provide interest-free
Service charges.

Biz Stone, said many companies have found Twitter account and start to use Twitter to communicate with clients, Twitter at play
My access platform in the region apart from these enterprises would then be able to collect charges as appropriate.

Today there are very many companies opened a Twitter account, and many companies have abandoned the way to switch to MSN customer service provided by Twitter
Customer Service.

One of the most prominent examples among Dell. It is reported that Dell alone at the end of last year's Christmas holiday shopping period, we use
Twitter won the one million U.S. dollars of income, it can say that the results are striking. Although it is impossible to access and traditional revenue figures and references
Theory, but also confirms the value of Twitter with the commercial.

twitscoop：see what's hot on twitter

2009-03-24T20:02:00.000-07:00

Twitter was built to help thousands of people answer a very simple question: "What are you doing ?"
Twitscoop was built to help you stay on top of twitter's hot topics or discussions.

Through an automated algorithm, twitscoop crawls hundreds of tweets every minute and extracts the words which are mentionned more often than usual. The result is displayed in a Tag Cloud, using the following rule: the hotter, the bigger (no joke here).

You can input a twitter username or keywords in the search box to track a conversation, topic or conference. The results will auto-refresh every 20 seconds.

You can also add a a twitscoop widget to your blog easily.

Twitter Turns Three,Growing More Faster

2009-03-24T06:12:00.000-07:00

Twitter, that ubiquitous little collection of emotional grunts and other 140 character ramblings, is turning 3 years old today at 1:02 PM California time. Founding CEO Jack Dorsey Twittered earlier today linking back to one of the first Twitter messages, which read “inviting coworkers.”

The news about Twitter didn’t break until July 2006, when it was called twttr . I love reading our first post on the service, which I described as “a sort of “group send” SMS application. Each person controls their own network of friends.” I gave it a thumbs up for “for innovation and good execution on a simple but viral idea” but questioned why Odeo, a podcasting company, was wasting time on side projects. The comments to that post are pretty entertaining as well. See what my friend Om Malik had to say about them that day as well.

Fast forward to today and you have a startup that survived serious scaling issues and is getting serious mainstream attention. Facebook is obsessed with the young company, as are many others. Happy Birthday, Twttr.

How Big Your E-Penis Is

2009-03-23T22:56:00.000-07:00

Epenis is a very interesting twitter tools ,the difference between other twitter tools is,Epenis is testing your twitter e-Penis' length.

Only need to enter your twitter username, epenis will in accordance with your follower quantity, tweet and retweet quantity to calculate the quantity of you epenis length, the following are the length of my twitter.

You can test your friend's twitter epenis length easyily.

Twitter Gadget for Gmail

2009-03-22T23:13:00.000-07:00

Twitter Gadget for Gmail is a Twitter client specially designed for Gmail.

Feature List

OAuth authentication, your Twitter account password is not required.

Supports multiple Twitter accounts
Mark all as read(like Google Reader)
Gmail look and feel
TODO:
Share tweets with friends
Locality tweets

Installation：
Gadget address: http://twittergadget.appspot.com/gadget/gadget-gmail.xml

Twitter Style Wordpress Theme

2009-03-17T21:34:00.000-07:00

I have introduced a Twitter Style Blogger Template,today is a twitter style wordpress theme.

Twitter Theme, also known as Always Twitting another name AT4US, a WordPress 2.7 Supporting the Twitter Like subject. Settings page in the subject of a number of easy operation, you can make your Blog and your Twitter Very similar pages. Characteristics: Custom comment author's default Gravatar image (required wp-admin/options-discussion.php enabled) shortcut management (Blog Front Desk) automatically to the background color to distinguish Blog Author Comments and general comments Show comments (Comments) and Trackbacks / Pingbacks.

Supported functionality about WordPress 2.7：

Comment threading
Comments Paging
Sticky Posts

Supported Plugins：

WP 2.3 Related Posts
WP-PageNavi
WP-PostViews
Clean Archives Reloaded
Get Recent Comments
Subscribe To Comments

Twitter Theme download：

http://code.google.com/p/dupola/downloads/list

Twitter Make Text Ads

2009-03-17T06:42:00.000-07:00

We’re all waiting to see the business model Twitter will roll out and, putting 2 and 2 together, it looks like sidebar ads will be the first to arrive.

Sneaking into the sidebar of Twitter’s homepage are what appear to be small text ads like this:

Right now the "ads" point back to various Twitter pages, but I suspect the micro-blogging service is softening us up for the launch of targeted advertising.

Have you seen the ads? What are you thoughts on Twitter adding text ads to your homepage?

Pay by Twitter

2009-03-16T01:07:00.000-07:00

May be, I said maybe, you want to give you Pay up at twitter friends, then you through paypal or credit card required to Implementation。

However,twitpay the emergence of changed everything.

twitpay you are a let up in the twitter paid directly to the Friend of the instrument.

All you need is a Twitter account. Update your status on Twitter to pay somebody. If you fill in the text boxes above and click on Tweet we'll show you how it's done.

Twitpay payments are handled by Amazon Payments, so your money only goes where you want it to.

Get Your Twitter Buttons

2009-03-07T23:55:00.000-08:00

Have a blog? How about add a twitter button on your blog,so that your blog reader can follow your treeting easily.

Twitterbuttons is your free Source for Twitter.Follow me on twitter via button below.

It's very simple... Enter your Twitter ID and Press GO, then you can copy the code (click "Copy Code") of any button you like and past it on your Blog, Web Page or any where and let others follow you. That's it... enjoy tweeting

Get custom Twitter backgrounds by Free Twitter Designer

2009-03-07T19:18:00.000-08:00

Do you want to get an elaborate and beautiful twitter background,Maybe it's got a photo and some contact information on the side, or maybe it just frames the main text field in some creative way. When you want to make your own, though, how do you work around the layout and get the spacing right? That's where Free Twitter Designer comes in.

Now you can personalize your Twitter background like never before. The tool below will help you create Twitter backgrounds that have the same look and feel as those done by professional graphic designers. It's easy to use, and best of all, it's Free! Give it a try!

Tweetsum: batch manage your Twitter Followers

2009-03-05T21:52:00.000-08:00

Twitter is a very good tool to communicate, it is convenient to use a variety of ways and to communicate with their friends, but also have trouble using Twitter is that Follow your people too much, you do not know Should Follow Back, because of Twitter itself does not provide bulk Followers management functions, and thus to first determine whether it is worth people Follow the Follow Back very troublesome. Today the introduction Tweetsum can solve this trouble, Tweetsum slogan is "Digest your followers", that is to digest your Folowers. Use Tweetsum, at a page you can put my Followers above and Following, convenient to carry out or Unfollow etc. Follow Back.

Use Tweetsum need to use the Twitter user name and password, for the landing after the above interface, the left one as recently Follow your users are between a user Follow yourself, Follow the right side are the people you do not want to, you can put the first column and the second column do not like people go into the third column. All of the Twitter user's information next to a percentile, which is calculated Tweetsum a Twitter user's DBI (Douche Bag Index), the higher the score, the more people that make this person (annoying), personal understanding of the users are more active :)

Twitter user name click the question mark to view this user's basic information, Follow quantity and quantity, etc. Follow. You can from these basic information to determine whether people recognize this, such as whether or not Follow Back.
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Free Fat Twitters Icon Pack For Download

2009-03-04T05:37:00.000-08:00

I have introduced 12 Free Twitter Bird Iconsbefore，but this time I would like to introduce is free fat twitters icon.

Pack consist of two icons (those two sitting on the branch). Both icons come in five sizes: 512x512, 256x256, 128x128, 64x64 and 32x32. And again, they are totally free.

Download icon pack (350 KB)
via

Twitter SMS in Europe

2009-02-19T00:20:00.000-08:00

Twe2 is Free Twitter SMS alerts in Europe and beyond. We don't charge you to receive an SMS, Twe2 is Totally Free.

Twe2 can:
Twe2 is absolutely FREE.
get your Direct Messages by SMS.
get your @Replies by SMS.
get search and interesting stuff via SMS.

Currently its support for the European region, but you can also try for your place.

Create Groups for Twitter

2009-02-15T18:53:00.000-08:00

Groups is important for twitter users, For example, you could create groups for all of your fantasy league friends, colleagues at work, friends in real life, family members, and so on.

Twitter does not provide any group feature, but there are many different ways Twitter members can create virtual groups.

TweetWorks-a great third party service to creat twitter group.Tweetworks is based on the simple premise that people like to talk about stuff with other people. And it is the stuff (ideas, questions, politics, sports, arts and so on) that brings people together and around which they form community.

TwitTangle-twitTangle is a free service that helps you untangle the mess of having too many friends on twitter. It allow you to rate and tag your friends and then filter your timeline to help you easily find the tweets that are most important to you.

GroupTweet-GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.

TwitTag -Twitag is a #tag finder for Twitter. twitag's goal is to facilitate and organize the most recent content tagged by users.

Filttr-A new service that provides the ability to establish groups according to filters (hence its name) that you apply to your own Twitter stream. You create your groups by simply clicking each name you want to add to that group.

TweetDeck-TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

twhirl-twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

Have another method to tell us about? Let us know more in the comments.

Twitter Nabs $35 Million in New Funding

2009-02-15T02:31:00.000-08:00

And you thought the days of raising money without a business model were over.
Twitter has landed a reported $35 million in additional venture funding, despite the fact it still lacks a business model. The funding values the company at $250 million, according to news reports.

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Gather for Twestival

2009-02-12T21:15:00.001-08:00

On 12 February 2009 175+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.

n September 2008, a group of Twitterers based in London UK decided to organise an event where the local Twitter community could socialize offline; meet the faces behind the avatars, enjoy some entertainment, have a few drinks and tie this in with a food drive and fundraising effort for a local homeless charity.

In addition to collecting contributions online, Twestival events are using various methods to raise money for charity: water. Some are selling tickets, while others will have free admission and raffle off donated items. Ms. Rose also set up a streaming music site, called Twestival.fm to generate additional donations. Music fans can leave a donation in exchange for listening to songs donated by musicians like the experimental pop chanteuse Imogen Heap, the indie rockers Bloc Party and a Brazilian electro-outfit, Bonde do Role.