Twitter Tools – Make Your Twittering More Efficient & Fun . . .
I found another awesome twitter tool that lets you auto-reply to new followers with a welcome message (public or direct, you can choose) plus a URL if you like!
This is a powerful technique because you can be sending “thank you” messages to new followers with a link to your site. I’ve seen several people I’m following use this technique and I actually direct messaged a few of them asking how they did it, hoping for an automated solution, only to discover they are sending their direct welcome messages MANUALLY.
So eventually, I kept asking people who were using “welcome” direct messages and came across one guy who found an automated solution that not only lets you auto-reply with welcome messages to new followers, but also lets you queue up tweets for future post-dated times!
This is very cool. Check it out here:
I just finished setting up my tweetlater account to send a very casual welcome message. Not over the top or too annoying, that is the key.
Here’s my welcome message I’ll be testing out verbatim:
” Thanks for following. You can find out more about me and my newsletter here: http://www.profromgo.com/blog “
I hope to see this automated solution result in some new fresh incoming traffic. Twitter is catching on like gangbusters and the amount of traffic coming from that site is amazing. It’s just like MySpace, Facebook, etc except it has a more “real” feel since the nature of the twitter service kind of makes you feel almost like you’re engaged in real-time convo with your followers, as well as the people you follow.
This can be beneficial because people will tend to follow your links out of sheer curiosity when they see your tweets coming across, and the psychological effect of this action is considerable because they are making a conscience CHOICE to come visit your URL, versus being poked prodded promoted & pushed towards clicking!
In the back of their mind as they are checking out the pages you casually present they won’t be thinking “what is this guy/gal trying to sell?” like many consumers do nowadays when encouraged to check out an offer, but instead they’ll have the mindset, “what does this person have to OFFER that I might find of value/interest?”
Think of it this way… I send you an instant message saying to check out my site. Your less likely since I suggested for you to check it out! However, I send out a public “tweet” saying “I just updated my blog” or “Finally finished my new site” along with a URL and you DECIDE to go visit after no encouragement just an announcement, there’s a big difference.
Anyways, that’s all I got on Twitter at the moment. Will post if I come across anything else cool.
Ciao for Now . . . .
oooo wait! I almost forgot, I also found this which also VERY cool:
http://www.twittervision.com <– see your tweets pop up in real-time on a map of the world. Super coolness.