Choosing the best time to publish your tweets so that they’ll have the best response can be a difficult. Will people be more likely to read, retweet and reply to you at 2pm or 4pm? Midnight or Noon? It may seem like it’s pot luck, butTimelyis a web app that aims to give you a helping hand. Here’s how it works: you sign up and input the tweets that you want to publish....
Instagram has always had a close association with Twitter for me. It’s rare that I post a shot into my Instagram stream without also cross-posting it to Twitter. Now I can do the opposite as well with Tweegram. Tweegramis a cool web utility, also available in amobile flavor, that allows you to enter a 140 character ‘Tweet’ and inject it into your Instagram timeline. It’s a super simple idea but I think it could be a cool way to share a few words with your Instagram followers now and then....
“Never flood your followers again. Add Tweets to your Buffer and we spread them out for you during the day.” We firstcoveredBuffer back in February, and for those that are new to the Web app, it’s a tool that lets you designate fixed times for your tweets to be sent. Whenever you find something tweetable, you add it to your ‘Buffer’ and the app schedules the tweets for you evenly throughout the day, which is a key differentiator over the likes of HootSuite and TweetDeck, which require the user to physically schedule the tweets....
As a journalist working in the online world, I’m pretty much hooked on Twitter and I’m sure that many of you are as well. That’s why I’m always on the lookout for new and unique Twitter clients that help me access it in cool ways. Tweet Speaker [$2.99, App Store] does just that by allowing you tap a play button and have your tweets read out to you automatically. Seems like a simple concept, and it is, but it’s easily one that could have been crushed by poor execution....
Much has been made out of the use of social media in the Middle East over the past few months. An initiative recently launched by Egyptian blogger,Mahmoud Salem, better known to his followers asSandmonkey, aims to harness all of that attention, but this time, for a charitable cause. Salem has been at the front lines of the Egyptian uprising since it began, and continues to be actively involved in ongoing efforts coming out of the now infamous Tahrir Square....
