How to tweet more often with actually tweeting?

Twitter is all about tweets. Your publicity is based on your frequency of tweeting. Having said that in one of my posts earlier, I had professed that the time that you spend decides the profitability of your online business and that you should minimize the time that you spend on Twitter. So how will I balance the time that I spend on twitter? I am sure this is the question that you too have.

I was busy building my followers until a few months back. But eventually I found that my followers were dropping of my following list. I kept wondering why until I stumbled upon an eBook on twitter. It was then that I realized that only building your follower count is not enough. You need to give them valuable content as well.

The very essence of blogging is content, that too, valuable content, be it contemporary blogging or, micro blogging. Twitter is no different. Though off late the behavior of Twitter users have changed, the more serious ones are still followers of good and valuable content. It is these gentry that you would normally want to target if you are serious about using Twitter successfully.

After I read the book, I stopped concentrating on building my follower list and started focusing on content. But then there was the constraint of the amount of time that I was spending at Twitter. I was finding it difficult to tweet enough at Twitter with the limited time that I wanted to spend there.

Tweeting more in limited time -

Twitter has a lot of features, primarily because of the API that it offers which could help you do a lot of tweeting in the limited time that you want to do it in. It is because of these features that I love twitter. What we are going to discuss below is a completely working and legal way of doing it. Though Twitter is against automated tweeting, the below mentioned techniques are not considered as automated tweeting.

The tools that your need are as follows:

• Google alerts – an account with Google
• Twitterfeed – Create an account at www.twitterfeed.com
• Twaitter – Create an account at www.twaitter.com
• RSS aggregator – If you are a blogger, your blog will already have an RSS creator and you will know the link to it.

Submitting good content to your Twitter followers automatically –

What we will now do is start a submission service so that you tweet the most recent and valuable information about the area of your interest or, your niche to your followers automatically. The steps involved in this process are as follows:

1. Create an account Google for setting up Google alerts. Remember that you can use this same login at Twitterfeed as well, thanks to the concept of Open ID.
2. At Google alerts create a new alert with the niche keyword term that your blog is based upon. Create this alert in a feed format and copy the url for the feed alert.
3. Move onto Twitterfeed and create a new feed for twitter. Insert the url that you copied at Google alert into the feeds box at Twitterfeed.

Twitterfeed will now keep submitting the latest updates about your niche automatically to your Twitter account and you will be giving good and informative content to your followers at Twitter. Just be cautious on one aspect. Do not submit too much of content automatically through this method. Just ensure that you have set the frequency of submission at Twitterfeed to about 2 updates every hour.

Automatically submit your blog feeds to twitter –

If you own a blog you would have always wanted to submit your blogs feeds automatically to Twitter. The following steps will help you do it –

1. Copy your blog feed url.
2. At Twitterfeed create another feed for Twitter and enter the feed url for your blog feed as the url. Use bit.ly as your url shortening service. You should create an account at http://www.bit.ly in order to get the bit.ly API code.

This will sent a tweet to you Twitter account, immediately after you create a new blog post at your blog. You will not have to run to twitter every time you have written a blog post in order to submit a tweet about your latest post.

Scheduling tweets for optimum utilization –

The fourth service that we discussed about was Twaitter. I had earlier written a post about Twaitter. If you know how to use this service, you will be able to make optimum utilization of the little time that you want to spend at Twitter. Schedule about 10-15 tweets at Twaitter about anything – from products that you are promoting to, good to know information and good tools available on the internet. Spend about 30 minutes every day to do this. Schedule these tweets in such a way that it is spread over the entire day. This will ensure that your tweets are posted to your twitter account even when you are not physically tweeting.

How much you want to utilize these services is entirely up to you. The benefit of this method is that you can set up a few feeds at Twitter feed and the tweeting is done automatically. All that you need to concentrate pm is Twaitter and spend around 30 minutes every day at Twaitter and you will be able to maintain a healthy profile at Twitter.

Photograph courtesy Sas Van Veen