Being on Twitter practically every minute of the day I see free Twitter tools come my way from practically every direction. I have tested many of them but currently use only one that I am very happy with and that is SocialOomph( Formerly tweetlater) . This tool is very easy to use. We started with the Free version but after trying the 7 day free trial of the paid version we decided to keep it. Do not get me wrong the Free Version of SocialOomph works fine for many people and does not cost you a dime.
Now lets break down the differences of the Free and paid versions as well as show you some of the powerful tools that are offered in both.
FREE VERSION of SocialOomph (Tweetlater) Here I will cover some of the things I use on the Free Version. Keep in mind this is just a taste of some of the tools available on the Free version.
Scheduled TweetsThis is by far the most powerful benefit of this program. I literally spend about 5-10 minutes a day scheduling tweets for the next 24 hours. This Free’s me up for the rest of the day to do other things such as write for this blog. I schedule tweets approx 1 every hour and it is very simple. You can schedule tweets minutes out, hours out or evebn days out.
Send DMs to new followers This feature in the free version is very powerful. I gain an average of 500 followers per day and each one of them gets a personalised DM from me with a link to this blog. The Best thing is it took me 5 minutes to setup and now it runs automatically.
View @Mentions & Retweets — Efficiency I love this feature I check it throughout the day. Nothing makes you feel better then someone RT ing your work.. and when you have thousands of followers you never know when this happens. Now you can.
Purge your DM Inbox — Keep it tidy A daily must have. How long does it take to clear out 500 DM’s when you follow people on a daily basis to try and gain new followers? Well how about if you could do it in about 10 seconds… With this tool you can easily Mass purge your Twitter DM box.
Try The Free Version of SocialOomph
PAID VERSION of SocialOomph(Tweetlater) Okay here we go over some of the benefits in upgrading to the Paid version of SocialOomph ( Tweetlater ) Rather then typing a bunch of stuff. I am going to list the benefits directly from the SocialOomph site. I do highly recommend switching to the paid version once you get familiar with the product for an ultimate Twitter Marketing machine.
| Keyword searches — Find targeted friends (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Enter your keywords and we will search for Twitter users and/or StatusNet users who tweet about those topics and present them to you so that you can decide whether you want to follow them or not.
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| Filter profiles — Avoid spammy accounts (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Configure your Friend Finder so that it will look only for Twitter and StatusNet users that conform to your specific criteria. You can filter on following-to-follower ratio, number of friends, number of followers, age of the account, number of tweets, and much more. Set up words and phrases that you consider as SPAM and we will automatically ignore any user that has those words in its profile bio or latest tweet. You can also tell us to filter out any username that contains certain text or character strings, which you define.
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| Apply decisions of others — SPAM protection (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Tell the system to automatically ignore any Twitter or StatusNet account that has been flagged as SPAM or has been blocked by any of your fellow SocialOomph users.
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| Auto select & human review — Full control (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
The system selects candidate Twitter and/or StatusNet users, according to your criteria, and places them on a queue where you can very easily review them and decide whether you want to follow or ignore the person. You see the Twitter and StatusNet users in one integrated console.
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| Automated limits — Quality, not quantity (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
The Friend Finder is not a mass following tool. It is a tool to easily find quality users whom you can follow if you choose to do so.
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| Auto follow — Save effort (StatusNet) [more]
You can opt to auto-follow the candidates on your review queue if you do not vet them within a certain time period. Note, this auto-follow option is notavailable on Twitter accounts. It’s available only on StatusNet accounts.
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| We work, you decide — Save hours (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Why spend hours searching for and ferreting out quality Twitter and StatusNet users to follow? You need to do searches, view their profiles, check the numbers and then hit the calculator to compute the ratios. We remove all that time and effort for you. The only thing you need to do is quickly review those profiles that have passed through your filters and decide whether you want to follow them or not in one easy step.
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| Private Tweet Viewing/Grouping Channels | ||
| View predefined channels — Zoom in on interests (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
With our predefined tweet channels, you can view the tweets from selected breaking news sites, technology news sites, celebrities, musicians, and more, grouped together for easy viewing of tweets that relate to a specific topic.
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| Define your own channels — Unlimited groupings (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Define your own tweet channels so that you can see tweets from a selected number of friends, or from other selected Twitter or StatusNet accounts, in your own private viewing channel. It’s like your own tweet timeline on Twitter or StatusNet, except a channel contains only the tweets from those Twitter or StatusNet users that you include in the channel. You can define an unlimited number of channels. You don’t even have to follow someone to include that person in a channel. In addition, you can include Twitter users and StatusNet users in the same channel.
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| Discover Which Followers Have The Most Clout | ||
| Find power followers — Profitable relationships (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
We analyze your list of followers and show you the top fifty followers who have the most clout, judged in terms of the number of people who follow them. Build relationships with the folks who have the most clout and develop mutually beneficial cooperation on shared interests. These folks are already following you, which means they are interested in you, and you can DM them. Leverage that interest.
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| Manage DMs With Automatic SPAM Control | ||
| Manage all account DMs — Integrated console (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Fire up your Direct Message Manager where you easily manage the direct messages of all your Twitter and StatusNet accounts from one central and integrated console. Twitter and StatusNet DMs are shown in one integrated console, sorted by date.
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| Weed out SPAM — Boost your productivity (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Tell the system who and what to treat as SPAM, and we will make sure you never even see those DMs in your Direct Message Manager. We also delete those SPAM DMs from your Twitter DM inbox. DMs cannot be deleted from StatusNet via their API, but we do hide them from your DM Manager view when you mark them as SPAM.
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| Filter SPAM words — Define your own (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Set up words and phrases that you consider as SPAM and we will automatically get rid of any DM that contains any of those words.
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| Apply decisions of others — SPAM protection (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Tell the system to automatically treat as SPAM any Twitter or StatusNet account that has already been flagged as SPAM by any of your fellow SocialOomph Professional users.
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| Manage Many Accounts with TweetCOCKPIT | ||
| Manage all your accounts — Integrated console (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Wear your coolest shades when you climb into your TweetCOCKPIT where you easily manage all your Twitter and StatusNet accounts from one central and integrated console.
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| Integrated timelines — Boost your productivity (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
On one page in TweetCOCKPIT, see your normal timelines (integrated) and pull in additional tweets that contain certain keywordsregardless of whether you follow the tweeter or not. Find new folks to follow or new friends and business contacts at one easy glance, and follow them or tweet to them. See an integrated view of your Twitter timelines, combined with your StatusNet timelines, sorted by date and time.
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| Filter timelines — Tune in on favorite friends (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Even though you follow thousands, configure your timeline in TweetCOCKPIT to display tweets only from the handful of people you’re more interested in hearing from.
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| Multi-account actions — One click, save time (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Want to follow, unfollow, or block a person on more than one Twitter or StatusNet account with one click? No problem. Tweet and retweet something on more than one Twitter and StatusNet account with one click? No problem. Favorite a tweet on more than one account with one click? No problem. Retweet a tweet from Twitter to StatusNet, or vice versa? No problem.
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| Forward DMs to others — No copy & paste (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Easily forward a DM to someone else without having to copy and paste, and go from page to page to perform this action. One simple click and you’re done. Forward a DM from Twitter to a StatusNet follower, or vice versa? No problem.
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| Mute annoying tweeters — Avoid frustrations (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Whether you follow a person or not, mute people in TweetCOCKPIT if they annoy you. You won’t see their tweets. Unmute them whenever you feel like it.
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| Hide read tweets — Unclutter your view (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
When you’ve read a tweet, hide it and it will not show up again and clutter your view.
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| Highly configurable — Suit your exact needs (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Include or exclude Twitter or StatusNet accounts, or sections of accounts (timeline, favorites, DMs, search results). Color-code accounts to make them easy to identify. Specify the number of tweets you want to see for each section of each account.
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| Other Highly Sought After Features Included in SocialOomph Professional | ||
| Delegate account management — Free up time (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
If you have an assistant, you can delegate the management of your Twitter and StatusNet account(s) to that person while keeping the master account entry in your SocialOomph profile and keeping your password secret. This is also a great feature for corporations who want to enable several employees to manage an account, without having to know the password. For example, a media company could delegate the account of a TV station to the station manager, the regional manager, and the VP’s personal assistant. The VP can easily schedule a tweet on all TV station accounts in one single action, the regional manager on all TV stations in her region, and the station manager only on his station’s account.
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| Schedule @replies and DMs — Their timezone (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
How often do you tweet an @reply or send a DM when the recipient is either asleep, or usually not on Twitter or StatusNet? Schedule @replies and DMs to be sent when you know the person is usually on active on Twitter or StatusNet. To be clear, the system does not know when people are online. You must know, or guess, and schedule accordingly.
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| Broadcast DMs — Send to all followers (StatusNet) [more]
Schedule a DM that will be sent to all your followers at the date and time of your choosing. With one click you can send the DM to all your followers on all your StatusNet accounts across all StatusNet sites where you have an account. Note, this feature not available for Twitter accounts.
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| Recurring updates — Without being repetitive (StatusNet) [more]
Schedule updates that will be published every X number of hours, days, or weeks. To avoid having the update say exactly the same thing every time it is published, provide alternate update text options (multi-level spinnable update text) from which the final update text is compiled every time a recur is published. Note, recurring updates are not available for Twitter accounts because Twitter considers them to be against their Terms of Service.
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| Pause recurring updates — Fine-tune campaigns (StatusNet) [more]
While a recurring update is going through its cycles of publishing, pause the publishing if you don’t want it to unexpectedly appear in your timeline while you’re doing a demonstration or presentation, or don’t want a longer term recurring campaign for a product to go out while you’re doing a short-term promotion of another product. Note, recurring updates are not available for Twitter accounts because Twitter considers them to be against their Terms of Service.
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| Bulk upload tweets — Save time (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
If you have many tweets to schedule, prepare them offline, put them in a simple text file, and upload them in bulk. Save time by not having to enter and schedule them by hand in the system.
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| Sync friends & follower lists — Reciprocation (StatusNet) [more]
You have three options, namely you can follow everyone who is following you, you can unfollow everyone who is not following you back, or you can do both simultaneously that will result in a fully synchronized friends and followers lists. Note, this feature is not available for Twitter accounts.
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| Wipe your friends list — Start anew (StatusNet) [more]
If you find that you are following a large number of accounts that you don’t really want to follow, you can use our system to completely wipe out your friends list. When the process is done, you will be following nobody and will be able to hand-pick those accounts you want to follow. Note, this feature is not available for Twitter accounts.
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| Run your own bots — Automated accounts (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
Turn any RSS/Atom feed into your 24×7 PR, traffic, or Twitter and StatusNet account feeder machine with the Blog Feeds integration.
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| Ping.fm integration — Feed Facebook & MySpace [more]
Light up your other social accounts with the Ping.fm integration where you can schedule updates and feed Blog Feeds into Facebook, MySpace, and all other platforms supported by Ping.fm.
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| Increased Follower Checking — Higher frequency (Twitter, StatusNet) [more]
The Twitter and StatusNet accounts of Free users are checked for new followers once every 8 hours. With a Professional account, your Twitter and StatusNet accounts are checked once every 4 hours.
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| Get all new enhancements — No extra charge [more] |
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