Automate Your Twitter The Safe Way
Twitter has made some drastic changes to its program. The other day, it aggressively deleted thousands of accounts. It had its reasons and I’m sure they were civil. But, Twitter does understand that people use their system to conduct business.
It’s really hard to find a social media site that people don’t use to conduct business. It’s in the way that they do it that separates them as a legitimate business person or a spammer with selfish intentions.
So, conducting business on Twitter isn’t a problem. Just conduct it in a way that won’t shame you if you ever had to answer for your business practices.
Twitter can be a powerful machine if you put the right tools in place. You can completely automate your twitter account so that you gradually grow your followers and you also keep people updated on topics that interest you. If you do it right, you can walk away from twitter for a day or two and when you return you will find it still growing in a natural and effective pace.
The first thing I do with new accounts that I put together for new clients is sign them up with a Google Alert. But instead of having it delivered to their email address, I make it into a feed. That way, I have an RSS feed that I can use at TwitterFeed.
TwitterFeed will automatically update your twitter account for you. If you put a keword in the Google Alert that is exactly what your business is about, all updates will be relevant. You’ll be able to add your own updates whenever you want. But when you walk away from your account, it will still keep going.
Here’s the thing, you won’t be bombarding your followers with useless crap. These updates will only come through Google Alert as they are published to the internet. So, you might get an update 3 hours after the last one. That’s not every minute or every ten minutes. That’s only when someone across the net has something to say about your topic.
Next, the advanced settings on TwitterFeed will allow you to choose frequency of updates, content to display, what to post before or after an update and it gives you a list of programs you can use to shorten links. You won’t be able to use my link shortening process because that requires a little work creating files for each link. But, you can use tinyurl or bit.ly. My favorite is Digg. Just Digg those automatic updates and everyone who reads them will feel safer looking at them if they want.
So, that lets your followers know that you are still alive. Here’s how to automate your list to keep adding followers. There are plenty of programs that say they will automate your follow list, but every single one of them is very expensive. Yet when you imagine how much money you can make from having a professional listing with a steadily growing following, you start to think about that ROI.
If you spent $15 a month on an automated system that added followers, purged those who have no intentions of following you back and found the perfect people to follow you, that would be a good ROI. The program I use has a filter system for every function it includes. You can schedule automatic follows on keywords that you use to describe your business. Editing the filters, you can make sure that the program chooses people that will be most responsive.
Another feature, it has is what it calls mimic follow. If you are competing with someone who has thousands of followers, you can put their username into your system and it will follow all of that person’s followers. Everything you need is in place and you can walk away from twitter for a day or two. You can walk away for a week and it will be steadily growing with no problems. Try it for free for as long as you wish, but you’ll soon see that being able to schedule all of its functionality will take the hassle completely out of your hands. That’s when you’ll pay the $15 a month. But, please try it for free. See how it works. There is no free trial. You just don’t get completely automated functionality with the basic membership.
It’s safe because it doesn’t attempt to follow thousands of twitter accounts in a day or overdo any part of the automated process. If you put in about 10 keywords that have to do with your business, it will only follow up to 40 people at a time for each keyword. Every two hours, it will try again for each keyword.
Every two hours it will purge people from your following list who have no intentions of following you back. You can edit the filters so that you can immunize people. I have it set at 75%. That means that the latest 75% of people I have followed will not be purged for about a week. They don’t get purged out two hours after I have added them. That’s just ridiculous activity that Twitter will find suspicious.
Your Automated Twitter System is a remarkable program that will start out gradually, pick up speed and then turn a $15 investment into a beautiful business return. Set up scheduling and you can watch it grow while you use your time for other things concerning your business or other things entirely. If you have a nice design in the background of your profile, a url in your bio and interesting description of who you are or what you are about, your Twitter profile will do the rest.
