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Tip: Cronless Can Schedule Tweets

Monday, November 16th, 2009

I found a great service called ScheduledTweets that works perfectly with Cronless–a scheduling service for your Twitter account.

Some info from the site:

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ScheduledTweets is built with PHP, uses MySQL to store the data & its interface is fully Ajaxed.

It enables you to define time-intervals which your tweets will be sent every x minutes. You can enter unlimited tweets, drag’n drop your tweets to change the order they will be sent.

Also, URL shortening service TinyURL is integrated for shorter tweets.

ScheduledTweets comes with a web-based friendly installer that helps you define database & Twitter information easily.

Why Use ScheduledTweets?

Twitter is both an instant messaging & a micro-blogging platform. You will probably not schedule your personal tweets (I won’t, as it clearly becomes meaningless) but if you are regularly sharing stuff on a subject, then it has the same benefit as scheduling a post on a blog.

Installation couldn’t be simpler:

  • Create a MySQL database & user
  • After downloading it, unzip the files to a folder & upload them to your hosting account
  • Run http://www.yourdomainname.com/scheduled-tweets-url/index.php
  • Define the MySQL database information you created in the first step. Also define your Twitter info and desired ScheduledTweets admin info
  • Click install
  • Setup a cron job to http://www.yourdomainname.com/inc/functions.php?getAction=cronTweet (the interval must be lower than your smallest interval defined in ScheduledTweets)
  • Click “Start ScheduledTweets” button at the top menu
  • That’s it

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I personally recommend using Cronless’ free cron jobs to schedule those tweets!  ;)