Twitter – How To Auto-Reply And Auto Follow

thanks! had never heard of this tweetlater.com tool before (I’m new to the social media world) – and am scurrying off to try it out right now! just followed you on twitter :-)

The value of these tools increase when you have more people to network with. I’m sure you will have fun playing with it!

it seems interesting. i’ll try. thanks

Thanks for this. I had set up a reply that I wanted to change, but couldn’t remember how I did it in the first place!

I manage two Twitter accounts (personal and business). I tried setting it up on my business account without luck. I then used your demo “Follow Me On Twitter” on my personal account – have yet to get the Direct Message from you – seems it’s not working either. Yet, a few days ago another Twitter account I began to follow did send me an automated direct reply – not sure if it was TweetLater he was using or not (which is what sparked my interest in the first place). Any ideas?

If you get an auto reply, its most likely from using Twitlater.

I was wondering how those guys were doing it, I thought it was done manually, thanks for the tip. I’ll set mine now.

Btw, I am now following you!

thanks for the tip …

I’d always wondered lol – thanks so much!

Hi Brian,

Thanks for giving us a run down of this tool. Started using it and found that it’s a great service.

Also followed you!

Xurxo
@xurxovidal

After reading this article, I feel that I need more information on the topic. Can you share some resources ?

Whoa… this site is pretty awesome :) your layout is really well designed, and your blogs are (judging from what i’ve read) very interesting. heehee… consider yourself favorited. :-P

Thanks a lot for sharing this helpful resource.

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Thanks so much. Finally figured out how to get tihs set up!

@ScorpioDJs

I was looking on how to do Twitter auto-reply and found this page from google. Thank you for the tips. I haven’t try that tweetlater.com and I heard there is another one called tweetmanager.com. Personally, I never try both of them.

Will the auto-reply not annoyed some people?

I do, specially when I try to follow many people and most of them have auto-reply. I get hundreds of direct messages daily.

If you have a pleasant auto-reply message without being spammy, people won’t mind or rather they may not know the difference.

Tweetlater.com has been renamed socialoomph.com

Hi Brain,
Thanks for your tips. i've set up tweetlater in minuets. It's frees up my time!!

Marvin Sutherland
The Netherlands

Great tip, I'm using in my twitter account already.
Thanks!

Just have to be careful to not annoy followers with automated stuff like in this article: http://www.twitip.com/7-ways-to-be-worth-follow…
I took care to put a caring message and am gonna do everything as personal as possible.

After scouring the Twitter site and not finding anything on Auto Reply, I Googled it and came across your site.

Glad I did! Looks like you’ve got plenty of relevant, high-quality content that will be very helpful.

As for Auto Follow, hmmmm, I think I may want to be a bit more selective and stick to manual follow.

Thanks for sharing!

@nikolas_allen

AWESOME information it was fast and easy!

We use TweetTwain to auto-follow and unfollow users in Twitter. I can whitelist/blacklist accounts. I will give a try with tweetlater.
Link: http://www.tweettwain.com

Good post!

Personally I am not that fond of auto DMs. It is not personal and after a while looks like spam/clutter. But I use SocialOomph service for its other features.

@ekaterinawalter

Man this sure saves tons of time sending individual replies to every follower. Thanks again Brian, keep it coming my friend!

very useful stuff. I’m enjoying the way your site helps me streamline my own.

Just in case everyone hasn’t figured it out yet. If it seems like your auto settings aren’t working, it just takes time.

The system checks for new followers once every several hours. Once it has identified new followers, it applies your automation settings to those new followers.

Select “Social Accounts, Automation Stats” from the menu. It will always tell you when your last new follower check was done, and when the next one is due.

Just in case anyone has just set up an account and noticed your direct messages weren’t showing. ; )

Thanks Zach, that has been driving me made wondering why the DMs haven’t been sent. Can’t the program check more frequently though?

Useful info! Obviously I’m not the only one wondering how those guys were doing Auto Reply. Thanks Brian!

Useful tool it gona help alot..Thanks for sharing….

Thanks for the info, I have been wondering for ages how people do that…!

Very nice tool…I will surely use it to boost my social media presence.

Is there any FREE option out there? Social Oomph is 3.97 per month!

Yes, SocialOomph is no longer offering a free auto welcome DM. I noticed this last week they’re now charging $3.97pm for this feature. A real nuisance as this was part of my social media packages I included for new clients.

If anyone finds a free option instead of the $3.97 for auto welcome please let me know (@ngreene) … I would love to include a call-out to my blog, but not for $50+ per year.

Snap… also looking for a free auto reply service… agree that $50+ per year for something that is standard on email seems overprices. $3.97 for the entire year…maybe.

The pity is SocialOomph acquires fees to use its auto direct message service. If it is free, that would be great. haha…:)

I just joined twitter and it’s overwhelming. So I looked for a way to auto follow people who are following me, and I found this post. Unfortunately, the website you tell us to use is charging for the auto re-follow feature. is there another alternative that’s free?

Im following you. :-)

Hi Brian,

Thanks for this useful information. It seems that Social Oomph requires that you pay a small fee (I believe it’s $3.95) for the DM Automation for Twitter.

In your article you mentioned it was free. I believe it used to be, but not anymore. Do you know of any other ways to Automate/Edit DM’s in Twitter?

Hi Daniela – as mentioned in my note in red above, I have since moved to use the Tweet Adder software to manage all my Twitter marketing. Its not free but its only a small one-time payment and it works very well.

Socialoomph was the best auto-follow service, now I’m using tweepi to manage my followers (follow / unfollow) them.

Thanks working nicely

I was thinking about doing this but I read somewhere that people tend to find auto DMs annoying. So I’m not sure about it. But good info.

Thanks I have bought Tweet Adder and its really works.

Thanks Brian. TweetAdder is very good tool to manage Twitter accounts