Blogging Tips

Being able to schedule a tweet in advance can really come in handy for various reasons. Maybe you might need to send yourself reminders or want to schedule birthday or holiday greetings in advance, so you don’t forget. Many also use tweet schedulers to promote products and affiliates or to help them monetize Twitter. Whatever the case may be, it’s good to have an easy to use, reliable service that you can depend on. So, here are five tools that can do the job for you.

Tweet-U-Later lets you schedule tweets as far advance as you want (days, weeks, months or years). After the quick registration, you’ll then have to give them access to your account via Twitter OAuth. You’ll also get an email where you can you send tweets via email if you prefer. Your email should be formatted like this in order to schedule via email: Your message goes here;YYYY-MM-DD@HH:MM. You can also schedule DMs as well as view pending tweets – in case you need to edit it or just for reference.

Schedule Twitter Posts lets you save and schedule a  certain amount of tweets dependent on your account type. Again, you’ll need to register and then connect your Twitter account via Twitter OAuth. With a free account you can schedule up to 5 tweets which must be at least 4 hours apart. With a Pro account ($19.95/month) you can schedule up to 100 tweets which must be at least 30 minutes apart. With a Premium account ($29.95/month) you can schedule up to 1000 tweets which must be at least 5 minutes apart. There’s also an option to upload tweets by the bulk – of course you’ll need a Pro or Premium account for that.

Twaitter offers a few other features in addition to tweet scheduling. They also provide you with a Twitter calendar, a multi-user management system and RSS to Twitter management. Just like Tweet-U-Later, you can schedule tweets in advance and recurring on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis. Unfortunately Twaitter doesn’t utilize Twitter OAuth, which is bad for Twitter health! So, I didn’t get a chance to try it out. So, please share if you’ve used it!

HootSuite is my favorite tool not only for scheduling tweets, but also for managing my Twitter accounts. You’ll need to sign up for an account and then add your Twitter accounts. Now HootSuite doesn’t use Twitter OAuth but, it’s a site that I trust. You can schedule tweets in advance and even choose to receive an email when that tweet has gone out. If you have more than one Twitter account, you can schedule a tweet to post on more than one account at once. You can schedule as far in advance as you like but so far there isn’t a way to schedule recurring tweets.

TwittOnTime displays a calendar for each month and lets you schedule tweets by clicking on the date on the calendar. You will have to sign in via Twitter OAuth and then select your time zone. After that you  just navigate to the calendar month you need and then click on a date. A window will pop-up and let you enter your message and the time you’d like it to be posted. It’s very simple yet it seems to be in another language (as you can see below).

Which tool (if any) do you  use to schedule your tweets?