Steve Hart's Blog » message http://www.stevekhart.com Everything Social Networking Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:35:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2653 Twitter Follower Auto-Responding Email Message http://www.stevekhart.com/2009/04/twitter-follower-auto-responding-email-message/ http://www.stevekhart.com/2009/04/twitter-follower-auto-responding-email-message/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:04 +0000 stevekhart http://stevekhart.com/?p=360 logoI was looking for a way to repond to Tweeter’s that follow my tweets via direct messaging…just a note to say “thanks for following me”.  I came across this free tool from www.tweetlater.com.

Key Tweet Later Features – for  Free 

  • Schedule tweets — Plan, set & forget! 
  • Send welcome DMs to new followers — Automate! Follow those who follow you — Automate!
  • Unfollow those who unfollow you — Automate!
  • Vet new followers — Semi-automation!

Private Welcome Direct Message To An Individual Follower
With this option TweetLater sends a private welcome message (you supply the text), to a new follower.

What Should You And Should You Not Say In Your Welcome Message? 
Write a very simple welcome message. If you really want folks to unfollow you, then try and sell them something with this first welcome message. Very few people like that. 

 The purpose of this message is to say hello and welcome. Most people take a dim view of you when you do any kind of self-promotion with this message. If your message smells remotely like, “Hi, thanks for the follow, now buy my stuff or do something that will benefit me or check out how cool I am,” then you really are misusing this welcome message. Don’t send what you wouldn’t like to receive from others.

- Steve Hart

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