SocialOomph For Tweeters

By Veena

It’s always a delight for people who tweet a few times every day to have a friend or a manager to look after their tweets, followers and all messages that come through their account(s). Tweeting is the ‘IN’ thing today and if you are not doing it, it kind of says you are not cool. And if you have a business, your competitors might already be doing it and it’s always best to catch up and even rise above the others.

If you use twitter for your business, especially if you track your effort, it’s the best thing that’s happen to business so far. If you have a business and you have a link you can track its performance real time. Tweet it and wait a little and then check your tracking and you will see real people already clicked on the link.

People have really started to use this for all purposes possible and it seems to work more than what anyone expected. Trouble is it’s too time consuming and for people who have multiple accounts or have very little time for spending on Twitter because of their work, blogging, sleep or leisure times, building a substantial Twitter following can be difficult.

Social Oomph (www.socialoomph.com) provides a splendid way to communicate with one’s followers on a more regular basis than they can afford to do had they been tweeting manually.

Let’s look at some of the features:

1. Social Oomph gives you a chance to try it completely free with absolutely no strings attached and also have the option to upgrade to a professional version with extra features.
2. It can be set up to tweet anything from RSS feeds that you choose and have it appear on your timeline or as it is posted on the net. Especially, if you have multiple accounts and if you have lots of tweets to do, you can space them apart. This makes you look like you are tweeting then and there when you are actually sleeping or enjoying the day with your family. But it’s also very important to switch the auto tweets around and space them apart to avoid duplicating the messages to people.
3. You can send automatic Welcome messages to your new followers.
4. It will send you daily a list of all your mentions which is useful if you are not logging on to twitter frequently or do not use it with your mobile phone.
5. You can set to automatically follow anyone who follows you. Apart from being a common courtesy to do so, it’s always likely that you would be dropped from their following list if you don’t follow them back. Similarly, you can automatically unfollow anyone that drops you from their list.
6. Tracking of who actually clicked on the link in your post is the most important information and you now you can get it real time with Socialoomph.
7. Vet new followers feature helps you find those people who respond to your tweets and focus on such real followers and thus weed out unproductive followers. You can leave this to happen automatically in the background and it will also block anyone from following you if they have been blocked or ignored by a certain number of other Social Oomph followers.
8. It tracks keywords on Twitter like any search engine automatically and sends email showing you who used whatever keyword you are interest in.
9. One can even save and reuse drafts and it works great for common text and url’s you use.
10. It can automatically remove direct messages older than 7 or 30 days and save some valuable time.

There are some more cool features that a Professional version offers like:

1. Schedule replies and send them when the recipient is online.
2. Schedule recurring tweets without them being repetitive.
3. Pause & unpause recurring tweets
4. Fine-tune campaigns
5. Bulk upload & schedule tweets
6. Ping.fm integration to set up Social oomph to post your tweets to your FaceBook or Myspace accounts simultaneously
7. Automatically weed out SPAM
8. Automated keyword searches
9. Find targeted friends and filter the profiles
10. Mute annoying tweeters and Hide read tweets

Socialoomph is generally pretty good tool although sometimes it seems to lag a bit and it also needs a facelift in terms of the design that doesn’t do justice to all the features it has.

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