Schedule Tweets Like a Pro

Scheduling tweets makes life easier. Well, at least that's my opinion since tweeting tweets would take a 16 hours part of my every day life without Twitter scheduling tools. That would definitely kill me slowly. 

Even if my Twitter accounts are basically tweeting most hours of the day, that does not mean that that I am online tweeting LIVE. In some extreme cases, my tweets was scheduled over a half year ago. 

Who should schedule tweets?
Everyone who are tweeting after results and can not be online throughout the day. I am confident that scheduling tweets effectively will drive more traffic to your website, it will maximize your reach and your audience will be more satisfied with having your tweets spread throughout the day instead of getting too much tweets in a short period of time.

So, let's get you started and get to the point. What are the best Twitter scheduling tools and what are their advantages and disadvantages?

• The Bufferapp - To begin with, I almost always start recommending the Bufferapp. This is by far one of the most user-friendly, but advanced, schedulers. It's very easy to put in new tweets, schedule different for every day, see statistics about the impact of your scheduled tweets and also, my favorite, schedule tweets for multiple Twitter accounts with the same login. You can schedule pictures, schedule directly from www.twitter.com and also schedule retweets. You can even have team members by inviting email addresses to help you with providing content for your Twitter accounts - perfect if you want to pay someone for content without having to spend time in uploading it and without giving out your password and risk to get hacked. Bufferapp has a beautiful design, a mobile application, Internet browser applications and you can even schedule social updates for Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media networks. The bad part about it is that it's only free for everyone to try with limitations - you can't schedule as many tweets that you want unless you pay a few bucks for it. 
• The Tricklrapp - Here's another Twitter scheduler that I enjoy a lot. This scheduler is free. The design is user-friendly and very modern. The bad but also good part of this scheduler is that you can only schedule a tweet every 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 120 minutes, 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 2 days and 1 week. If you upload a tweet right now and choose that you want it to be scheduled in 30 minutes, it will then be scheduled in 30 minutes from the time you schedule it. The next tweet will be scheduled 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 120 minutes, 4 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 2 days or 1 week after the first tweet, and so on. Very simple to use and I always use Tricklrapp to schedule a tweet fast if I want to schedule outside the schedule of another scheduler. I am confident that you will enjoy this app. You can not handle multiple accounts from the same Tricklrapp login.
• SocialOomph - This is an old Twitter scheduler that still does good actually. The design is not very user-friendly, it's pretty obvious that this site were designed many years ago. If you cannot handle websites with bad designs, this scheduler is not for you. I however recommend this scheduler if you want to bulk upload a lot of tweets at the same time. It's easy to choose how often you want to schedule tweets and all you have to do is to upload a .txt-document with a new tweet for every line, and it's done. I have friends who use this Twitter scheduler to upload 100, or even more than 1,000 tweets at a time -- uploading tweets for 1 month ahead in minutes. You can handle multiple accounts from the same SocialOomph account.
• TwitDrip - This Twitter scheduler was one of my favorite back in the days when it worked perfectly. I am not sure if it's still working since I am using other schedulers for my needs today, but I am confident that this is a good option if you don't want to pay for a scheduler but still want very good results - if it's still working. On TwitDrip, you upload tweets and choose how often you want your tweets to be "dripped out" during time intervals. If you want a tweet to be tweeted for example every 47 minutes during the time 3pm until 7pm, and later on every 58 minutes from 7pm until 9pm and then every 22 minutes from 9pm until 10.36pm -- then TwitDrip is the ultimate option. It's free but yes, as I said, I am not sure if it's still working. Try uploading a few tweets and see if it works, if it does, this is a gold scheduler. You can not handle multiple accounts from the same TwitDrip login.
• Twuffer - This was my favorite scheduler 2 years ago. It's free and very easy to use. Only bad parts about it is that you can only schedule every 5 minutes. For example, 4.10 pm and 4.15 pm and 4.20 pm -- You can not schedule for example 4.11 pm, 4.12pm, 4.13pm and 4.14 pm. Only every 5 minutes. Also, you can not handle multiple accounts from the same Twuffer login.
• Tweetdeck - Is actually not made for scheduling but still worth mentioning. I use Tweetdeck every day, but for other reasons than scheduling. It's basically a Twitter tool to use Twitter more effective. Why I am still mentioning it as a scheduler is because I believe that it's a good way to schedule a few tweets once in a while if you also love using Tweetdeck every day. If you want to schedule more than a few tweets, it will just get complicated since it's taking too long time to choose the date, the time and the Twitter account to schedule (maybe 10 seconds total, but scheduling tweets effective should not take 10 seconds). However, if you want to schedule 1 or 2 or even 3 tweets, Tweetdeck is awesome. This is the Twitter tool I am using to schedule tweets at a specific date and time for months ahead. You can handle multiple accounts from the same TweetDeck account.

Now you know the basics and the more advanced advantages of powerful Twitter scheduling tools. Thank you!

Anton Perlkvist, The Twitter Entrepreneur

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