Goodbye Recurring Posts on Twitter

The Past: You could sign up with one of many sites offering to schedule ‘tweets’. You tell it, for example, to post “Merry Xmas!” every 25th of December, and never think about it again. It would work for promoting your blog link every month, re-asking interesting questions every year [1 per week], etc. So many possibilities!

And Now: Twitter blocked the capability. I can see why if the tool was used by thousands of spammers – I would block it myself if I owned Twitter – but it’s still frustrating for all of us who used recurring posts legitimacy.

Alternatives: Use a site like FutureTweets or software like TweetAdder to schedule messages to be posted in the future, and copy and paste your tweets in multiple times. If you added 15 tweets to post once a year, you’re covered for long enough!

You’re just not allowed to have a single post recurring for ever and ever.

BUT: Twitter doesn’t have a problem with scheduling tweets. They just don’t like one tweet constantly recurring.

- Lewis

[P.S. You can get the free trial of TweetAdder here]