Start engaging new followers and stop wasting time trying to find them with this new tool
Google + is where I found out about a new Twitter tool called TweetAdder. Specifically, TweetAdder was mentioned by Chis S. Penn who is the VP of Strategy and Innovation at BlueSky Factory. Incidentally Blue Sky Factory was acquired this week by WhatCounts.
Have you ever wanted to follow a list of people on Twitter that had a specific keyword and location in their profile? For example, if you were a knitting magazine you may want to follow all the people that live in the state of New York with the term “Knitting”. It’s a simple strategy but the truth is it’s a time consuming task to research and find all of those people. And let’s not forget the mind-numbing task of following each and every user. This is where TweetAdder comes in. TweetAdder automates the task of finding potential readers and the egregious task of following them.
The research and following of users within TweetAdder is a two-step process. You start off by giving TweetAdder the criteria for your search. You can search for keywords in tweets and keywords in profiles. You can even follow all of the people that follow another Twitter account. It also lets you filter and refine your search by recency, language and number of people following your targets.
All of the users that fit your search criteria get placed on the To Follow List. The To Follow List is where you can manually remove and add Twitter users. The To Follow List acts like a holding area before you unleash the automation. Most lists created within TweetAdder can be exported, which can be handy for monthly reports and analytics.
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The next step is to set up our follow automation. This is where TweetAdder will automatically follow all the users that fit our search criteria on our To Follow List. Some people get scared when they hear the word automation. These people should be scared. You can use TweetAdder like a cowboy and start to follow thousands of people every hour. This is not recommended. Twitter can block your account for suspicious activity and you just look a jerk. Fortunately TweetAdder is very smart and has a number of ways to make follow automation a more natural and human-like experience.
Ways TweetAdder Safely Follows People:
- It can run during set hours of the day or night
- Follows people at different time intervals. For example TweetAdder will follow a user every 1-10 minutes
- You can set a maximum number of follow sends a day. For example once I’ve sent 300 follow requests TweetAdder will turn itself off
- You can also set TweetAdder to turn off once a certain ratio of following-to-followers is met
TweetAdder also adds in another layer of security with its built in proxy connect feature. TweetAdder will connect to Twitter through these proxies making it look like you are using your accounts from different location.
TweetAdder runs on Mac, Linux and Windows. Licenses start at $55 and you can download a limited-feature demo copy to see if it fits into your social media toolkit.
Remember these words from Chris S. Penn, “Content strategy requires a human presence to respond, to react, to publish, and to be human. There’s no way to automate that side of social media and get satisfactory results“. With TweetAdder you can automate the mundane parts of Twitter and begin engaging more with people.
DISCLAIMER: TweetAdder is powerful software and can get your Twitter accounts suspended if you use it like a jerk. Be smart and don’t get greedy.
This TweetAdder review has covered only one feature, so try it out for yourself and let me know if you’ve come up with other neat uses for it in the comments.
