How to Schedule Your Facebook and Twitter Posts
Have you ever wondered why some people and businesses on Facebook and Twitter seem to post relentlessly, even at odd hours? Although insomnia and dedication are certainly possible, the most likely answer is that they're writing their posts in advance and scheduling them to appear at a later time. Scheduling posts enables you to keep up a consistent "drip feed" of updates for your fans and followers, time your posts precisely to coincide with future events or keep up a presence while you're on vacation.
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Have you ever wondered why some people and businesses on Facebook and Twitter seem to post relentlessly, even at odd hours? Although insomnia and dedication are certainly possible, the most likely answer is that they're writing their posts in advance and scheduling them to appear at a later time. Scheduling posts enables you to keep up a consistent "drip feed" of updates for your fans and followers, time your posts precisely to coincide with future events or keep up a presence while you're on vacation.
Tweetdeck
- Twitter purchased TweetDeck, a dashboard app for Twitter, in 2011, simplifying it in some ways but also adding the ability to schedule tweets. You can also add your Facebook profile or page to TweetDeck and use the same scheduling feature for Facebook posts. To schedule a tweet or post in TweetDeck, click the picture of a quill and paper, which is the unlabeled compose-Tweet icon. Write your message and click the unlabeled time-settings icon, which looks like a clock. When the calendar pops up, choose the date and time you want the post to appear and click "Tweet" to place it in the queue. By default TweetDeck includes a Scheduled column, where you can view, edit or delete your scheduled posts.
- If you use a Facebook Page to promote your business or band, you'll find scheduling is built right in. When you enter a new status or choose to upload a photo or video on a page you own, you see a clock icon below and to the left of the text box. Click it, and then choose the year, month, hour and minute you want the post to appear. Click "Schedule" to schedule your post. To view your scheduled posts, click the "Edit Page" button at the top of your page and choose "Use Activity Log."Unfortunately, while you can reschedule and delete scheduled posts, Facebook won't let you edit the content of a post. Facebook also offers scheduling only in 10-minute increments, so you can't queue a post for 8:55. Another limitation: while you can backdate posts on your personal timeline, Facebook allows you to schedule future posts only within Pages.
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