Twittering on auto pilot with autotwit

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Twittering on auto pilot with autotwit

by Chris Gilmer Mar 13th 2007

Have no time to send a quick text message, email or IM to keep your contacts informed with Twitter? Take the easy way out, pre-set messages to be sent throughout the day!

Even though Twitter is so simple to use, Autotwit was created to inject laziness back into it. Through your Autotwit account you can keep your Twitter friends informed of your every move, even before you make the move by pre-setting messages that are sent to your Twitter. You start off by logging into Autotwit with your Twitter credentials, and specify how often you want to create posts, hourly, twice a day, daily or weekly, and write the posts. That's it. Autotwit releases them as per your specifications.

Tags: autotwit, blog, blogging, twitter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mike Cohen said 9:34PM on 3-13-2007

It would be nice if you could tell it what time to post a twit, so I can automatically twitter at the time I normally get to work, etc.

Colin said 10:18PM on 3-14-2007

You've gotta be kidding me. Doesn't automating it pretty much defeat the already shaky purpose of Twitter? I see a torrent of Twitterspam!

Current mood: Contempt. :-/

Len Steinmeier said 7:02PM on 3-17-2007

I agree, part of the fun of Twitter is the UNEXPECTED daily BS everyone goes through. What fun is reading 3000 "Getting to work" posts every morning at 8am?

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