Project list How This Works About Us Contact

Managing Twitter/FB Feeds

Reward: $3.00

Ideas posted: 4

199 views

Part of my work involves managing multiple Twitter and Facebook feeds for several different companies. I usually spend my morning queueing up posts for all the different feeds that will post throughout the day.

I have been using Postling for this so far, because it makes scheduling lots of posts to many different feeds quite simple, but it has its weaknesses too. I cannot edit posts (I have to delete and reschedule them), the scheduled posts don't display in any sort of chronological order, and their integration with bit.ly doesn't quite work yet.

I tried switching to su.pr but that was even worse. Their timezone function is completely broken, making it virtually impossible to switch from PST, there is no way to see which feed a scheduled post is going to post to, and their method for selecting feeds practically ensures that certain posts will go to the wrong place.

What do you use for scheduling updates across a variety of feeds? I would love to find a system that solves all of these problems.

Category: Computers & Internet

Idea submissions are immediately visible to the public.

Post idea

I have to agree with everyone on HootSuite. I've used TwitBird for another feed, but have no experience with scheduling the tweets. You might want to give that a shot, too.

Jan 15, 2011

Hi there,

I work in Marketing for my company and I'm pretty hard-core with Social Media so I know how tricky this can be to constantly monitor numerous Twitter and Facebook feeds.

I was using Tweetdeck for awhile, but I found that the application crashed frequently and wasn't always reliable.

Now I am a faithful user of Hootesuite and I love it! You can monitor multiple accounts and schedule and time your posts throughout the day.

I would definitely suggest checking out Hootesuite. You can start with a free account and upgrade later if you want all of the features.

It's just hootesuite.com

Best of luck!

Kim :-)

Jan 13, 2011

I use TweetTwain => http://eCa.sh/it3u for scheduled / auto-posted Tweets! :)

One of the nice things about TweetTwain is that you can also import/export CSV files containing your scheduled Tweets! :)

and ...

You can set up your scheduled Tweets to be recurring / re-posted at a selected frequency, e.g. weekly or monthly! :) ...

Both of which you can't do with HootSuite, you know? ;)

So, ...

Try out TweetTwain => http://eCa.sh/it3u and let me know if it works Good for you too, ok?

I hope this all helps and Happy Tweeting! :)

- Michael S. DeVries
Founder and Principal,
The Virtual Consulting Firm ™
“Real People Providing Real Solutions in a Virtual World™”
http://www.TheVCF.com

P.S. Please Follow TheVCF on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/TheVCF

Jan 13, 2011

I have been using HootSuite for my scheduling messages and it has never cross me. The program work just fine.

Jan 13, 2011