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Schedule a Tweet in Hootsuite

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One thing you can’t do on the main Twitter page is schedule a Tweet for a later date. If you’re going to be away for the weekend or head out on a holiday and you still want to maintain your Twitter presence, make sure you get Hootsuite in order to schedule Tweets for when you’re away. You can also schedule Tweets to be sent when you’re asleep, too. Here’s how to do it:

1. Look up at the top for the icon that looks like a calendar. Click it.

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Look on the top for the calendar icon.

2. There are about seven things to do in this menu.

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This is the menu that pops up. Everything you need is here.

3. Type your Tweet in the space provided, where we have typed ‘The tweet goes up here’.

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Type your Tweet in the window as we have done.

 

4. Check the ‘Email me when the message is sent’, click on the month and date and, lastly, the time you want it sent. They say that the best times are between 3 and 5 PM Eastern time if you want to hit the big eastern North America market but this is only important if you’re trying to build up a business presence on Twitter.

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Date, email confirmation, etc. It’s all here.

 

5. Finally, make sure you check that all the circled areas are filled out. If you want to insert a link, Hootsuite will shorten it up for you, just insert it in the box provided. Make sure you choose which account you want to send the Tweet from as well as which month and which date then decide on AM or PM, according to where you are in the world. Here’s a reminder of which things to fill out:

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Circled areas are important to make decisions about.

 

6. Once you’ve completed your entry, click on the Schedule button to actually schedule the Tweet. You will want to create a new stream of scheduled Tweets in one of your tabs for the particular account you’re Tweeting from. Once you do that, you can see your scheduled Tweets and edit them, if necessary.

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Hootesuite, Social Networking

Hootsuite – it makes Twitter a whole lot easier to use

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Hootsuite, available here: http://hootsuite.com/ , is Twitter on steroids, in our opinion. Twitter itself has a decent interface but it’s missing a few of the tweaks that Hootsuite offers. We haven’t talked about Twitter very much but you should have a general idea of what it is by now.  We’ll do full posts on Twitter and Hootsuite later. Right now we want to spread the word about Hootsuite and explain a bit about it.

If you don’t use Twitter, you probably don’t understand why you’d need more than one account. Everyone here at Computers Made Simple has at least two Twitter accounts, one for business and one for fun. Some of us have more than two. The point of this is that Hootsuite allows you to link up to five social networking accounts, whether they are all Twitter or a combination of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

There isn’t any way to schedule tweets within Twitter. With Hootsuite you can easily schedule future tweets; even receive an email when the tweet is sent. Why would you want to schedule future tweets? Some Twitter users like to tweet links instead of their own thoughts and words. While we don’t agree with this, it’s common. Hootsuite allows you to collect links, schedule them for prime tweet times and then do something else. Additionally, Twitter users in other areas of the world who want to be noticed in North America, have to schedule tweets or they wouldn’t get any sleep, right?

Here are some of the Hootsuite offerings:

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Lots of app for Google Chrome, the best browser out there.

There are many versions of Hootsuite. Choose the right one for you. We use the Chrome extension and love it. There are apps for mobile devices as well as a full desktop program for Macs.

We’ll do more posts on Hootsuite in the near future but why not give it a shot? The basic version, the one we use, is free. If you’re in business, there are several paid options which help you tune your tweets in order to cultivate an audience.

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