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I will let you know about the features I encounter
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I recently began using an on-line tool that can
quite easily update my tweets on twitter.
I signed up for free by giving by e-mail and a password.
This password was a new password and not my e-mail
password. At first I thought this site was a gimmick
but when I tried it my tweet was updated. There is a menu
on the left. I placed the cursor on schedule updates. Then
I clicked schedule new updates. It was easier than I thought.
I typed my tweet, clicked the box "update now" and saved the
update. There is a log of each tweet kept for your benefit,
for example...
08/06/2010 05:01 pm (Friday) this is my blog. http://www.funkthisthisday.blogspot.com/
On statechases [57 characters] Published
There are many other features that are free. I will update here when I use them.
You can try them yourself by clicking the link "socialoomph"
which is on the right column of this blog.
Base Features Free Professional
Schedule tweets — Plan, set & forget.
Schedule tweets and keep your Twitter, Google Buzz and StatusNet streams ticking over with new tweets even when you're not in front of your computer. Publish tweets when you know your international followers are online and you're asleep.
Track keywords — Empower yourself.
Set up alerts and track keywords in the public Twitter stream. You can also use this to track your replies.
Extended Twitter profiles — Promote yourself.
The profile area on Twitter is very limited. We enable you to write your own long and detailed social profile (including pictures and hyperlinks), and link this extended profile to your Twitter account. When folks click on your "Web" link in Twitter, they come to your extended social profile that is hosted on the socialoomph site.
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Save and reuse drafts — Save hours of typing
Save draft tweets, frequently used text snippets and URLs and reuse them in your scheduled tweets. Save tons of time by avoiding repetitive typing. Save a draft once and use it as a template for updates on Twitter and StatusNet accounts, plus other types of accounts for Professional users.
Send DMs to new followers — Automate
Send a nice non-promotional DM to new followers that focus on them and your future interaction with them, or simply to thank them for choosing to follow you.
dld.bz URL shortening — Track your clicks
With in-house URL shortening service, dld.bz, you can track the clicks on your shortened links, and get all kinds of useful and insightful click statistics.
Follow those who follow you — Automate
Automatically follow people who follow you and save a ton of time while your Friends list builds itself.
Vet new followers — Semi-automation
You can choose who you wish to follow. You have 72 hours to decide.
View @Mentions & Retweets — Efficiency
With more than one Twitter or StatusNet account it can become a real chore to keep track of your @mentions and everyone who has retweeted your tweets. Make it a breeze by showing your @mentions and/or retweets for all your accounts on one page, in one integrated timeline. Yes, that's correct, you see your StatusNet tweets integrated with your Twitter tweets.
Purge your DM Inbox — Keep it tidy
You will probably agree that it's a bit of a pain to manually delete DMs from your Inbox, especially since they accumulate so quickly. You can run a purge on your Inbox to delete everything, or DMs older than 7 days, or DMs older than 30 days. This feature is not available on StatusNet accounts because their API cannot delete DMs.
Secure Twitter & Buzz access — No passwords
Use Twitter's and Google Buzz's secure OAuth method to access your Twitter and Buzz accounts. That means you never have to give us your Twitter password or your Google account password.
Personal status feed — Your own tweet engine
Grab your own personal 140-character tweet scheduling engine and RSS feed. You can schedule and publish tweets that don't go to Twitter, they go to your personal tweet stream, which is available in RSS, XML and Javascript formats.
Respect StatusNet site limits —
Some StatusNet site owners set update limits, such as a maximum of 20 updates every 10 minutes, per user account.The system fully respects those limits and will not allow you to schedule tweets more frequently than what the site owner will allow. In addition, the system also prevents excessive duplicate updates from being sent to a StatusNet site. Nobody likes a StatusNet account that stutters the same text over and over again. The same update text cannot be sent to your StatusNet account more frequently than once every four hours.
Unlimited accounts — No charge
Add and manage as many Twitter and StatusNet accounts as you want.
If you wish to try any or all of the above features click the link "socialoomph" which is located on the right column of this blog.
Remember, all the above features are free. socialoomph
