Snooze Your Tweets With Twuffer

Twitter’s quickly becoming the latest and greatest tool for quickly updating all the people around you. It’s a simple, easy, useful tool for quickly and simply keeping the world in touch.

If you ask me, one of the best uses for Twitter is to tweet blog posts: not all blog posts (that’s just annoying), but particularly interesting and useful ones. Twitter has the potential to become something of a personal and professional RSS reader, and tweeting blog posts can be a great thing.

Here’s my problem, though: I don’t always write my posts, and then immediately publish them. They go up in one day, or even a couple of days. I’m often not even at my computer when my posts go up. Also, for those who are in different time zones, their activity time doesn’t necessarily coincide with everyone else.

So what’s a guy to do?

A guy’s to use Twuffer. Twuffer is a tool that lets you schedule and post-date tweets, to go up at a time of your choosing. Get it? Twitter + Buffer = Twuffer.

In addition to letting you tweet your blog posts, Twuffer’s website offers several other possible uses:

tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements

appointment/milestone reminders

run a time-based scavenger hunt

notify subscribers about upcoming podcast or video episodes

appear to never sleep

Using Twuffer is simple: you create an account with your Twitter account information; once you’ve got an account, you enter your Time and Date information (including Time Zone). Once set up, tweeting and setting times to send them is actually quite easy, using their drop-down menus.

You can also tweet from Twuffer and have it go live immediately- a nice touch if you want to use it for all your Twitter needs, though it leaves some room for accidental publishing.

There’s a lot of use for this now, but there will be even more in the future. As people become more linked to Twitter, there will be frequent uses for Twuffer. Twitter could one day be a calendar, task list, RSS reader and email client all in one, and Twuffer can help you deal with them all.

FYI- you can follow Twuffer on Twitter. Or, just for funsies, find me on Twitter.

What uses can you think of for something like Twuffer? Do you use applications that work with Twitter?

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