How to Store Tweets: From Easiest to Just Easy

This is a myTweetPack.com post. You may not need to read it. Maybe you have all the time in the world to keep up an active presence. If so, this post isn't for you, neither is myTweetPack.com.

For everyone else, read on.

We didn't always store tweets

At first, we just scheduled them and forgot about them. Then we realized how valuable tweets really are. 

When we store tweets, we can use them, reuse them, modify them, A/B test them, edit them, and even delete them.

We can also do other useful things. 

Keeping an "inventory" of tweets lets us set a minimum number of daily tweets. Then the system can add tweets from inventory as needed. 

Sometimes, Life gets in the way of maintaining our presence.

Keeping an "inventory" of tweets also lets us share those tweets between our accounts. Combine this with auto-fill from inventory and slave accounts can run on autopilot.

Keeping an "inventory" of tweets allows other people to retweet us painlessly.

The Easiest Way

The easiest way is to do nothing at all. I'm not joking.

Maybe it would be more accurate to say, "Nothing more than just creating a post which you already did." That's a mouthful.

The easiest way to promote an article is to request a feed to article lists (the big white button on your profile page). For example, you can ask for a feed to your blog, beBee Producer posts, LinkedIn articles, or Medium posts (among others). 

There's no extra cost. It's even included in the Free Trial.

Just ask for the feed and mention if you want it auto-tweeted, or not.

We create the feed. You just write your stuff. The system will find your article, pull it in as a tweet, and tweet it out.

And you did. . . . Nothing.

A caveat: You have three choices for auto-tweets on a feed. You can set the most recent 10 articles to tweet. You can only tweet the most recent article. You can not auto-tweet at all.

The more is not the merrier.

The first time we poll your feed, everything will be new to the system. 

Say you connect your blog, beBee, LinkedIn, and Medium. Also, say you write on your blog and copy/paste everywhere else.

Servers are quick but not overly bright. The obedient server will pull in the articles from each feed. It will then schedule 35 promo tweets for each of the last 10 articles on each feed. 

Those are all duplicates except for the link.

Can you say, "Spam?"

I knew you could.

The better way: Get all those feeds created. Set the one with the most articles to auto-tweet last ten. Set the others to auto-tweet last only. 

If the feed with the most posts is not the one you want to make your primary feed, you can always edit it later. Go to Profile->Add/Edit Feeds->View/Edit Feeds

A last word on Feeds: The feeds we create for you are not limited to myTweetPack.com. Use them anywhere you like, however you like. They remain active as long as you're a member.

Storing From a Share-To-Twitter

Just about every site and blog on the planet has a Share to Twitter button. That makes things easy for us. Click that button and a window pops up with everything you need to tweet.

UPDATE: Just add "#pack!" somewhere in the tweet window and tweet away. Don't use the quotes. We'll find it, store it, and schedule it out for you

Copy that window's text and head over to myTweetPack.com

Once there, you have two choices. 

1 - Click  EZ Shortcuts ->One-and-Done: Simplified Store and Schedule of a Share to Twitter.  This is the one I use. Just paste the copied text in the window and hit continue. Choose hashtags or mentions, assign it to a Campaign, and hit go. The system will store and schedule it in one go.

2 - Click Store a Tweet->Use a Share to Twitter. Paste the text in the window. This is the same as #1, but it doesn't schedule tweets automatically. You'll see why you may want to go  this way in the next post. Advertisers can use this process to schedule Twitter Cards too.

Storing From a Full Embed

This is the most complicated method. Figures that it's also the most effective. This method lets you schedule tweets with a full 600X600 image attached to them. It's also the only way to store and schedule video that will auto-play in a tweet (max 140 seconds).

I use this method on all my own posts.

• First off, you need the link to the post you want to promote and a 600X600px image you want to add. Use Canva, Photoshop, or whatever to make the image.
• Important: Refresh your Twitter page before continuing! Sometimes Twitter will combine two tweets in one embed code. That won't work. A refresh solves the problem.
• Tweet once manually using that image.
• With that new tweet still on screen, click the little down caret  (^) in the top-right of the tweet.
• Select "Embed Tweet." A new window will pop open with a bunch of gobbledygook pre-selected. 
• Copy that gobbledygook and head over to myTweetPack.
• From the Dashboard, hit Store a Tweet->Use Embed Code from Full Manual Tweet
• Paste the gobbledygook in the window and hit continue. The system will parse out what it needs, and toss the rest.
• Assign it to a Campaign and edit the text if you like. Hit "Write" when done.

Oops, I forgot something

Any method except the store by feed method includes a Kill Date/Time function. Set tweets that aren't "evergreen" to self-destruct. There's no need to tweet about the Trump/Hillary debate now.

If your feed pulls in non-evergreen posts, just edit them to add a kill date/time.

Next time we'll look at the 6 methods for scheduling tweets. Well, there are 11 really but those last five are fully automatic. 

Cheers