Comments on: Mannequin Networking – Why Twitter Automation Is Bad

By: Carol Montgomery

Carol Montgomery — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:34:00 +0000

I do agree, and am now doing my best to put this into practice – hard if you are a solo-preneur.

By: unmarketing

unmarketing — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:44:00 +0000

What’s your Twitter name?

By: Visible Works Design

Visible Works Design — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:26:00 +0000

All due respect my friend, but you have no idea what you are talking about and have no idea how to use twitter to enhance your own brand and engage long term with a targetted audience— using twitter for business via an intelligent inbound marketing methodology. Auto tweeting, IF DONE CORRECTLY, is fantastic and it’s advantages far outweigh its disadvantages. I get scores of rewteets all the time.
Peter Darnell
Founder/CEO
Visible Works Design

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SAME Conference — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:17:00 +0000

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By: You, too can be a guru

You, too can be a guru — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:39:00 +0000

I agree. It made me seriously rethink (and alter) my scheduling behavior.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:30:00 +0000

I like the WalMart/small biz analogy. Great post!

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By: John

John — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:46:00 +0000

As a social media strategist at an organization that’s in the beginning stages of developing a social media policy, governance, strategy, etc… I tell my employees to schedule tweets. WITH the condition that they are available to respond when the tweet is scheduled.

Having a content plan in place for Twitter isn’t bad. Good content of any form often takes planning (though there are exceptions). So if you know what you are going to say, why not schedule it? Productivity win. The CEO stays happy because assigned work is still getting done.

For my employees, I’d rather them think through what they are going to say, think strategically about when this message will be the most relevant, and plan ahead to prevent writer’s block. Most of them have many other duties. Social media is something they understand is a good thing but may fail to realize how to use it, and even more so how to manage it along with their day jobs.

I think this process helps them get going.

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By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:38:00 +0000

I’d be interested to hear your take on scheduled tweets. I will take useful articles I find and schedule them to tweet later in the week so I don’t overwhelm people by tweeting 20 links at once when I catch up on my RSS feeds. I’m always there to respond and I consider myself to be an active engager but are hand crafted scheduled tweets a detriment to relationship building in your opinion?