Twitter – How To Auto-Reply And Auto Follow
Posted on 07. Oct, 2008 by Brian Wong in Social Media
Firstly, for Non-Twitter Users:
I resisted it at first but now I find that I am a raving fan of Twitter. If you are not using Twitter yet, take my advice and just do it. Even if you don’t plan to Twitter much yet, just register to make sure you grab a user name that’s close to yours. You’ll thank me later for this piece of advice. So go ahead, create a Twitter account for free and “follow” a few active Twitter users to appreciate what it does.
Now for Twitter Users:
Have you ever noticed how when you “follow” certain Twitter users, you will get an immediate reply saying something like “Thanks for following me”. And also, you may find that these users also seem to immediately respond by “following” you too. Do you want to know how to do it too?
Chances are, these user are using a free service from http://www.tweetlater.com
This service allows you to do 3 things:
- Automatically respond to your followers with a personal message
- Automatically “follow” your “followers”
- Submit a Twitter message to be published at a later time

You can also manage multiple Twitter accounts from this site. For example if you have a Twitter Account for yourself and one for your business.
Follow me on Twitter to see a demo of how it works. You’ll get a reciprocal follow from me. :)
Twitter Automation Software (Free Demo):

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19 Comments
candy
14. Oct, 2008
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 :-)
Brian Wong
14. Oct, 2008
The value of these tools increase when you have more people to network with. I’m sure you will have fun playing with it!
nexotiz
10. Nov, 2008
it seems interesting. i’ll try. thanks
Dawn
11. Dec, 2008
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!
Lindy Wiseman
19. Dec, 2008
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?
Brian Wong
19. Dec, 2008
If you get an auto reply, its most likely from using Twitlater.
Zaldy
15. Jan, 2009
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!
zigzag
17. Feb, 2009
thanks for the tip …
The World's Dresser
13. Mar, 2009
I’d always wondered lol – thanks so much!
Xurxo Vidal
25. Mar, 2009
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
Samuel L.
24. Apr, 2009
After reading this article, I feel that I need more information on the topic. Can you share some resources ?
Justin
31. May, 2009
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
Saad`
06. Jun, 2009
Thanks a lot for sharing this helpful resource.
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Edward Daniels
20. Aug, 2009
Thanks so much. Finally figured out how to get tihs set up!
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Da Mooney
22. Aug, 2009
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.
Brian Wong
22. Aug, 2009
If you have a pleasant auto-reply message without being spammy, people won’t mind or rather they may not know the difference.
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19. Jan, 2010
Tweetlater.com has been renamed socialoomph.com
marvinsutherland
02. Mar, 2010
Hi Brain,
Thanks for your tips. i've set up tweetlater in minuets. It's frees up my time!!
Marvin Sutherland
The Netherlands
@youjustneedthis
06. Mar, 2010
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.
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