Dynamic Duo: Buffer and Tweriod Help You Automate Your Twitter Content Sharing

If you are like me, you like to share cool tidbits that you find here and there online with you friends and followers.  If you are trying to create any time management structure into your life at all – you probably gather up a dozen of tasty information morsels to tweet at a time.  Then what?  Not even your best Twitter compadres want to be machine gunned with information.  And, since twitter is live stream – if you share your info when people aren’t online – they aren’t seeing it?

Enter the dynamic duo of Twitter Buffer and Tweriod.

Twitter Buffer

Twitter buffer is a cool web app (compatible with most browsers – they even offer a way to share via smartphone).  One the app is installed, all you need to do when you see something cook -is click the buffer button.  A screen pops-up and you can set up the tweet.

Notice the two buttons at the bottom.  One allows you to tweet right away (if your news just can’t wait). One allows you to add to the buffer.

Buffer will collect all of your tweets and will send them out at times you predetermine each day. The app also keeps track of how many people are reading and how many posts you have left to send.  They’ll send you an e-mail when you are running low.

Buffer makes it easy to share information in a way (and at a time) that makes sense to your readers without sending too much at once.

Tweriod

So, then, the next question is — how do you know when your followers are online?  Since, nowadays people follow thousands – it is really hard to know.  If you don’t know – it is kind of hard to set your Buffer schedule.  That’s where Tweriod comes it.

Tweriod is a free service that can tell you exactly when the majority of *your followers* are online. They even adjust the results for your timezone.   I used to think that my peeps were online at night — but interestingly enough my best hours for tweeting are 9am, 1pm and 3pm  and not on Sundays.  Tweriod breaks out your report for weekdays, weekends, Sundays and Mondays so you can customize. My graph is below.

Individually, Buffer and Tweriod are both amazing applications.  Together, they provide an easy way to provide the information your followers want – when they want it – that is truly powerful