Twitter. Am I missing something!?

Question

It seems that some people are able to tweet all day, every day. Like literally every hour.

And it looks like they're getting a lot of success from it.

But how on earth are they doing this? Surely it can't be them doing it alongside busy schedules and growing companies? I won't name any examples but I'm sure we've all seen it happen before.

Are they using GTP-3?

Do they hire people to do it for them?

Is it scheduled from a bulk pre-written list?

Would be awesome to know what the community thinks about this and if you have any of your own experiences on how to become a Twitter pro 🐦

Andre · Accepted Answer

I guess it's part of their marketing and building their personal brand.

Cica-Laure Mbappé · Answer

I feel you. It's time consuming, even with a scheduling app. But I think it's all about time management. People can manage to squeeze 1-hour workout every day in their schedule to stay fit. So tweeting all day is a choice and if it's just a part of their routine.

Nathan Svirsky · Answer

@andrefuchs I appreciate that, but just can't imagine how they have time to think and come up with posts every hour of the day. I'm talking about personal profiles, not company accounts.

om Bob · Answer

Are you really talking about Indonesians?

Pritam Chougale · Answer

@victoria_duben Yes, relevant content necessary. But can we automate the content creation as well ? If you know any tool do let me know :)

Vincenthaywood · Answer

Content planning can take a few days and usually you plan for the month. Be it 1 post a day or 20.
What I usually do is have one main piece of of content like a blog post and then break that into at least 10 posts. For twitter, instagram and Facebook (plus sites like producthunt, Indie hackers, reddit, etc)
For the record I’m currently writing a book on the various methods to find the content ideas and create multiple posts. - off the back of that, even before the book is complete I have planned and posted tweets on the writing of the book and then scheduled them.

This leaves me room to be more reactive on my channels. So as well as scheduled posts I am posting sporadically and posting replies. So it looks like my feeds are busy.

I get what you are saying about having the time to do all this and your main job.

Consider the following tools for planning :
Hypefury - great to schedule tweets but more for scheduling tweet threads. It also allows you to requeue posts. 
Sprout Social for scheduling any channel.

Also, have a look at Missingletter.com - you can add a blog post and tell it to create a years worth of posts and then send them to the likes of buffer

Pritam Chougale · Answer

person who is able to tweet all day, every day. Like literally every hour is actually using a social media scheduling app like buffer or hootsuit

Paul Woodthorpe · Answer

A lot use social media platforms like Hootsuite to pre schedule tweets. It only takes 10 minutes to write about 20 tweets and you can publish them every hour. So spend one hour a week and you have enough tweets for a week.
To grow popular though is a different story. It is about carefully targeted tweets that use trending keywords, building a network of people that retweet your content, commenting to specific high-profile accounts, producing highly engaging and quality content, etc. 
For example, you can spam tweet regularly but will get very little engagement and usually followers are usually spam follows. 
Or you can make one hilarious reply to Chrissy Teigen who replies to it, and suddenly you get 35,000 likes and 100 new followers from her fanbase. (I know, it happened to me!) 
Be aware also that follower counts are not a good estimate of popularity. There are many programmes available to grow followers. Some ask you to follow 50 accounts, and 30 will follow you in return. This happens and grows your followers quickly but they have absolutely no interest in you at all, or your content, and are purely following to grow their own account. On top of that they may unfollow a week later as they purge to make room for more people to follow and get a follow back. And that is not just for people with 100-1000 followers. Piers Morgan has over 7M followers, but uses a company to buy followers to make him look more successful on social media. When you go through his followers a huge majority are blank profiles with 1 follow (him) and no tweets posted suggesting bot accounts. A news site in 2020 analysed his profile through the data and predicted that 4M of his followers were not genuine, and that his ACTUAL real fanbase on Twitter was a much lower 3M followers. 
My advice for Twitter is stick to high quality, engaging tweets, target what is currently trending, don't be too spammy or full of links of self-promotion all the time, and appreciate a small but highly engaged audience, rather than a massive but hollow fanbase, because at the end of the day, 50 real followers are likely to pay you money for a product but 50,000 bots will not.

Victoria Duben · Answer

@pritam91 Even if you use buffer you need to create a relevant content. It takes time. A lot of time actually. I have the same question as Nathan. I've started this challenge several times and always failed...

Twitter. Am I missing something!?

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