The wrong way is to jump on Twitter or facebook and try to get your friends to go to a sales page or a capture page.

The right way to do social media – Twitter and Facebook, specifically – is to have a conversation and try to socialize with your friends.

Social Oomph is a powerful Twitter and Facebook activity automation tool that could easily be horribly abused if done the wrong way. Don’t do it. Follow the suggestions in this video and you Social Oomph will be a huge enhancement to your social networking activities.

The Right Way to Use Social Oomph

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SocialOomph already had a solution in place, but many are unaware of it’s existence or they don’t know how to use it.  It’s a fairly simple process, but it does take a little longer and a little more effort than the previous recurring tweets solution.  I’m making the assumption that you already have the Pro version of SocialOomph. If you do not, you can get SocialOomph here.

1.  Open SocialOomph and go to the “tweets” menu then click on “upload.”

2.  Open Notebook and write out your tweet.

3.  Spin your tweet because Twitter’s TOS won’t allow you to repeat the same tweet.  Notice how each of these tweets are different.  I only took a couple minutes to spin this tweet, however with a little more time and creativity, it could be made into many more tweets.

4.  Save your notebook file someplace where you will find it easily.  I put mine on my desktop.

5.  Go back to SocialOomph complete each of the following:

• Select the Twitter account you wish to submit to.
• Browse your computer for the Notebook file you created.
• Indicate the date an time you wish your first tweet to occur.
• Specify the time between recurrence of your tweet.
• Determine if you wish for any URL’s to be shortened automatically.

6.  Scroll to the bottom and press “Upload.”

That’s all there is to it.  Now you have a series of repeating tweets going out, which increases the probability that more of your followers will benefit from your tweets.

Please don’t abuse the Twitter rules.

According to SocialOomph:

On Monday, October 12th, 2009, Twitter communicated to us that recurring tweets are in violation of their Terms of Service. Twitter’s rationale centered around the potential for recurring tweets to result in duplicate tweets.

The content of the communication is extracted for your benefit below:

Recurring Tweets are a violation no matter how they are done, including whether or not someone pays you to have a special privilege. We don’t want to see any duplicate tweets whatsoever- They pollute Twitter, and tools shouldn’t be given to enable people to break the rules. Spinnable text seems to just be a way to bypass the rules against duplicate updates and essentially provides the same problems.

Hence, from Thursday, October 15th, 2009, 00:00 AM CST we will prevent the entry of recurring tweets on Twitter accounts within the SocialOomph system. Existing recurring tweets on Twitter accounts will all be placed in paused state at that time, so that the content of the tweet text is still accessible to you, but no publishing to Twitter of those tweets will take place.

Recurring tweets scheduled for other social services are not affected by this change. Other scheduled tweets are also not affected by this change.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, but it is important to us to keep our system in good standing with Twitter.

That’s very unfortunate. It was a very powerful and useful feature. It was, also, the sole reason that I upgraded from the free version of the application.

Twitter has been likened to a cocktail party.  You roam around the room, talking to various people.  The conversation is fast, loud, and varying.  Everyone tries to be interesting, funny, controversial, intelligent, etc.

How many people have told the same joke more than once to different people at a cocktail party?  Almost everyone, huh.  Some even tell the same joke more than once to the same person.  Oops!  They will let you know of your goof and move on – no harm done.

What if you are only allowed to tell the same joke only once?  Now, everyone who was out of earshot when you told it the first time is out of luck.  I think it’s a shame that some might be left out of the opportunity for a good laugh, a clever insight, an encouragement, or some other useful piece of conversation.

That’s the usefulness of recurring tweets.  It isn’t spam.  Everyone who see’s your tweets has followed you, meaning that they have opted to receive your messages.  You still must be cautious.  If you get out of control and begin to repeat incessantly, share objectionable material, or talk about things that your followers aren’t interested in, they will simply unfollow you (opt out.)

So, If SocialOomph was going to discontinue the option to retweet, my first instinct was to find another service to replace them.  With a quick Google search, I discovered this list of Tweet schedulers.  I have to admit that I haven’t tested any of the options on their list, yet, but from the descriptions they provide, it appears to be a very useful list.

Before I had a chance to do any research on the services in that list, I found that SocialOomph already has another option.  I’ve outlined the steps in another post.