Looking for a more efficient way to Tweet? When you don’t have time to spend on Twitter, you want something time-sensitive tweeted, or you want to keep your account constantly fresh while you’re away – there are some great solutions for post-dated tweeting!
While some popular Twitter clients offer scheduling options built-in, others don’t. For those in need, here are four
great, free online services you can use to queue up tweets
for future broadcasting.
Twuffer
Twuffer (Twitter buffer, get it?) is a super-simple example of a Twitter post-dating service. Using your Twitter log-in info, you can set your timezone and select how you’d prefer the time and date to appear. Scheduling a tweet is easy — just type what you’re going to say into the box, set the time and date you want it to go live, and hit the “set status!” button.
Queued tweets can be viewed via a tab on the dashboard, but cannot be edited, so if you’ve made a mistake, it’s a matter of deleting to start again. A record of tweets sent via the service is also viewable. Our scheduled tweet made it out the door as timed, so this simple solution gets a big thumbs up.
Later Bro
In addition to Twitter, Later Bro also works with Facebook (
), and both options are offered right from the sign-in page. Once you’ve logged in with your Twitter account, you can change your timezone via the settings, enter your tweet, set the date and time (the latter of which is a little quirky) when you want it to go live, and hit the schedule button.
Scheduled tweets are listed below the main box, and can be edited, while sent tweets can be viewed. Another simple service that works well, Later Bro’s amusing name and contemporary looks might give it an edge with a hipper crowd.
Twaitter
Twaitter (soon to be renamed “gremln” — vowels cost more, don’t you know) is actually a business-aimed Twitter client and scheduling platform, but for the purpose of this exercise, we’re just focusing on the tweet-scheduling aspects.
Twaitter offers some advanced options, including a nifty built-in URL shortener. There’s also the ability to translate your tweets, which, along with the drop-down timezone menu (included in the scheduler), makes this a great option for anyone indulging in some international Twitter action. Other highlights include the option to save drafts, copy tweets, and search and edit queued messages.
FutureTweet
Offering OpenID sign in (but no Twitter OAuth, for some reason), you have to validate your Twitter account before you can get going with FutureTweets. Once you’re in, this service offers a few cunning tricks that might make it worthwhile.
There’s an analog clock face to set the time of scheduled tweets (great for the numerically challenged among us), as well as some novelty options, like the ability to add icons to your tweet or flip the text backwards. Why you’d want to do any of those things is, of course, a matter for you to consider.
However, the really big selling point for FutureTweets over rivals is that you can choose for your update to appear as coming “via web,” rather than from the service. If you are trying to make it appear as if you are tweeting live (for whatever dastardly reason), this feature is certainly handy.
courtesy of Mashable.
