Twuffer – Scheduling posts made easy

How wise is it to spend a lot of time at Twitter?

Twitter can be a traffic monster. If used appropriately, you can get scores of traffic from Twitter to your blogs, websites or, sales pages. This is a known fact, right? You might then be wondering as to what is the “appropriate” way to use Twitter.

In order to make the most out of Twitter, it is recommended that you do not spend more than 30 minutes on Twitter. But how will you do all the follower building activity?

The very essence of any social marketing website and networking on  a social marketing website is “sharing“. You share information with people who recommend you to other friends of theirs, if they find that the information you are sharing is worth referring. Same is the case with Twitter.

One of the activity that consumes the most amount of time in Twitter is sending our valuable tweets to your existing followers so that they can take advantage of the information and share it (retweet in Twitter language), with their followers and friends. At this point I should mention the fact that it is this same activity that has made Twitter this popular.

Hence the context of this post is to make sharing of information easy for you, thus reducing the time that you would have spent on tweeting information. What would be a way of doing this? This can be done by scheduling your tweets.

How to Schedule Tweets?

There are a lot of applications, courtesy the API feature of Twitter, that provides you a feature of scheduling your tweets, so that irrespective of, if you are surfing the internet or, sleeping. But the sad part is that most of these application charge you something in order to avail this feature.

I came across one such application that was free of cost and offered a more user-friendly interface to schedule your tweets. This is Twuffer.

Twuffer - Login Page

This is the login page to Twuffer. If you look at this page you will find that you do not have to register at Twuffer in order to start using it. All that is required is your Twitter user name and password. That save quite a bit of time, when you decide to opt for any service.

On logging in, Twuffer will ask for authorization to connect to your Twitter account. Once authorized, you are good to go.

Twuffer Interface

This is the interface for Twuffer. (Click on the image to enlarge it). The interface is pretty simple and there is nothing much to explain.

There is a text box similar to that of Twitter where you can write your tweet text. Just below that are the options to decide when you want Twuffer to send out this tweet to Twitter. You can set anytime of your choice so that Twuffer send out the tweets at the scheduled time.

Just below the scheduler is the dashboard with information like your queued tweets, sent tweets and you settings. Pretty Simple, eh!!

There is something that I miss in the service that is offered by Twuffer. This is a “URL shortening service”. If you want to add tweets to your schedules, you will have to shorten your urls using a different service, which at times is inconvenient.

Set this inconvenience apart and you have a perfect application to schedule your tweets.

Check out Twuffer and do let me know what you feel about this service.

Photograph courtesy T. Al Nakib