I’ll set up automated tweets when I’m simply trying to simply lead people to a particular website.

For my personal account however I like to be on when I tweet in case someone wants to interact with me at the same time. If you do go the automation route however then you definitely have to know how to work it so that people don’t mass unfollow you for posting tweetspam.
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I think there needs to be a balance of some sort between it all — personal reflections, rants, valuable content, and questions.

Personally, I enjoy your inspirational quotes and original tweets way more than the links to other content — partly because I’m interested in getting to know your voice and what you’re all about and partly because I’m interested in your work more than the work of 15 other bloggers.

I have a feeling a few posts throughout the day pointing followers to cool content will prove to be more powerful than 15 posts to other blogs — less is more in a way, you know?

To each their own, but I’m just saying as your reader, I’d love to see more casual tweets about what’s going on day to day — If other readers are like me, they’re interested in how you manage to post every day despite the challenges we all face, what pet peeves you have, where your inspiration for a post comes from, etc.

When it comes to personal twitter accounts like yours and mine (@christopherR2D2), I just think people are expecting more than what a business account my tweet — all work and no play.

Frankly, I wouldn’t mind if someone hogged my stream with their personal tweets, while I probably would mind if their tweets were merely links to content I don’t really care about at the moment.

There’s definitely value in providing links to cool content, but I feel like that’s what Digg or Delicious is for — Twitter is about voice.

Your voice.

Great post and discussion — I look forward to everyone’s future tweets!
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But how many people scheduling their tweets actually shed a sliver of their personal voice?

There are all different types of tweeters so I don’t want to group anyone somewhere they don’t belong, but it seems a lot of people using scheduling are merely content cannons — the people who just re-tweet everything they read in order to make an appearance throughout the stream.

The more content the better, but without including your own voice or personal commentary on the content you’re reading you risk losing followers.
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Every one of my tweets is entered manually. Twitter is a primary social engagement tool for me. I like to keep it open throughout the day in order to engage.

As for the scheduled – automated argument it depends what you’re using twitter for. I personally like to do it manually. Seeing the same tweets each day from an automated system doesn’t sit well with me. I’m against automating any process. It’s not the number of things which you do but the way that you do them which brings results. So scheduling tweets is more desirable than automated tweets since you’re putting a personal touch on your tweets.
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Twitter, to me personally, is about sharing content now.

When a friend tweets about a post they just read, I feel excited to check it out because it becomes a shared experience — I can read the post, leave a comment, and tweet back what I thought.

Scheduling and automation widens the gap between that shared experience, which might not matter to some, but to me that’s what it’s all about — the power of discovering in the now.

Additionally, if everyone had a set amount of people they were following, the motive to use scheduling as a way to avoid hogging the stream might be understandable, but because some people follow ten people while others follow thousands, I don’t think this really applies.

Also, I’d like to hear what everyone thinks about sharing your own content vs sharing related content — I feel there’s a line between selectively sharing something valuable with your followers and sharing everything you read just to get build your profile or brand in that niche.

What do you guys think?
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I see your point but am still against the idea of scheduling tweets throughout the day. You may use them this way but that doesn’t mean everyone else does. I’m beginning to believe twitter is like the real-world with different people going at it in all different ways. Some people are lazy, some people work hard, some people don’t get it and some people pretend they do. So because of that, I say; do what you want. There will always be people telling you that one way is better than the other but when it comes down to it – we have to look at their intentions. Some peoples intent is to feel special (followers), some peoples intent is to develop community (friends) while others are just looking for a place to let off some steam. Solid post Kiesha – I think this inspired a post of my own.