I discovered www.tweetlater.com last night, luckily just in time. As a result of some other tweet activity I was being swamped with new followers and it was cumbersome going through emails to see who was following, then going to the profile and deciding whether to follow or not.

It is made worse because I’m also running two other twitter accounts, one for me and another for a client. tweetlater will monitor my new followers and then email me at intervals to prompt me and then let me go through a single page that show all the new ones, for all the Twitter accounts I manage- letting me accept, ignore or block. Sweet and easy.

In addition tweetlater lets me schedule tweets in advance. Yeah Twitter is good for spur of the moment posts, but I think that sending out 3 tweets one after another dilutes the impact. So maybe I send one out, and queue the other two, let them sit and go out in their own time and get back to work without having to worry about tweeting later.

tweetlater has other good stuff that I will check out later, both free and paid service available.

I found this site yesterday ifollowback.com/ that helps to increase the number of Twitter followers. The idea seems good - since I’m now trying to see what Twitter really can do, both for me and for a client. Sign up with them and you start getting followers. Great idea. But for me, at this point in my Twitter life - it’s truned out to be too much, too fast.

Within an hour I started getting followers, I was spending a lot of time going through my email and checking each follower profile to see if I should add them. Most had, in my opinion, no match to my profile, but the terms of service require that I follow 90% of them. This seems totally overwhelming - I would be faced with a mass of clutter on my in box that would interfere with seeing the people I really want to follow. This reminds me of SEO a few years ago, when the idea was to cram web sites being promoted into pile of spam directories and also of reciprocal linking of sites.

Perhaps I’m too new to Twitter, but this reciprocal follow exchange seems wrong - so within a couple of hours I’d opted out.

As of this morning I had at least 50 new followers within less than 12 hours. So if that is what you want, maybe this service is good for you.