6 Free Tweet Schedulers
Pre-Post Twitter Messages with No-Cost Tweeting Tools
May 10, 2009 Jace Shoemaker-Galloway
It’s no secret that Twitter, the super popular micro-blogging website, is growing by leaps-and- bounds. With so many business owners, professionals and organizations jumping on the Twitter bandwagon, it only makes sense to enhance productivity by using automated schedulers.
Instead of being limited by posting real-time Twitter messages, called Tweets, users can pre-post messages day or night by using a free Tweet scheduler. Twitterers can specify exactly when to send a message to friends, co-workers and followers. Just pre-write, pre-post and post-date personalized Tweets and forget them! With these free scheduling services, the future is now!
The following websites offer free scheduling tools to enhance and simplify the Twitter experience, at no cost.
Free Twitter Tweet Schedulers:
1. twAitter– Users can select from a personal or business account and both are free. Sign up is simple; just enter the Twitter username and password. That’s it! In just seconds, a simple and clean interface is displayed showing pertinent Twitter information including followers, following, updates and more.
twAitter Features:
- Schedule Tweets in advance and also select end dates
- A handy calendar is included
- Automatic RSS feed
- Schedule Tweets to repeat on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis
Unfortunately, there is no URL shortener with this service.
2. TwitBabble – TwitBabble is a free download. Users can send messages to Twitter straight from the computer desktop!
TwitBabble Features:
- Tweet directly from the computer desktop
- Create scheduled messages
- View and send direct messages
- Search
- View followers and replies
- ReTweet
- Share photographs with others
- Shortened URL service
A small icon is placed in the computer system tray for easy access.
3. Twuffer – Twuffer offers a no-frills service with a simple interface. No registration is required to use this service; simply enter the Twitter username and password to begin.
Twuffer Features:
- Pre-Tweet hourly, daily or monthly
- Includes a handy appointment and milestone reminder
Users can only send Tweets on the hour and no re-occurrence option is available.
4. FutureTweets – Users can register in two ways; select a username, password and email or simply use OpenID. Email validation is required prior to using the service. The FutureTweets interface is user-friendly, clean and simple.
FutureTweets Features:
- Tweet scheduler
- Repeat Tweets on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis
- Send an upside-down Tweet just for fun
There is no URL shortener with FutureTweets.
5. HootSuite – Formerly known as BriteKit, this handy Twitter scheduler is more than just a pretty face! To begin using this free service, register, add Twitter account information and wait for confirmation email.
HootSuite Features:
- Tweet scheduler
- Can use multiple Twitter accounts at the same time
- View pending Tweets and statistics
- URL shortener
- Hootlet bookmark applet
- Ping.fm integration
- RSS/Atom feeds
- Email notification option
- View DMs, Stats, Faves, Search, Sent and Pending Tweets from the control panel
- Generate revenue by embedding Google AdSense code into Tweets
No re-occurrence feature is included in the service.
6. TweetLater - There are two versions of TweetLater – a free and paid professional. To start using this service, register with a username, password, email address, real name and time zone. A step-by-step tutorial is also available.
TweetLater Features:
- Multiple Twitter accounts option
- Save and reuse draft Tweets
- Track keywords
- Send automated DMs to new followers
- Publish within 60 seconds or a specific time
- Includes an automatic URL shortener and tracker
- Automatic follow and unfollow options
- Direct message purger
- Free newsletter
The re-occurrence option is only available with the professional version.
Twitter users no longer have to stay glued to the computer or mobile device in order to send new Tweets. Just write them, schedule them and forget them with the free Tweet schedulers listed above.
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