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SocialOomph Alternative: TrueTwit

March 22, 2011 By Mason 2 Comments

As I mentioned in my previous article, since SocialOomph is now charging $3.97 a month ($47.64 a year) for their Twitter Automation features, I wanted to talk about some alternatives to consider this week. Today’s alternative isn’t free, but it serves some significant purposes and it’s cheeper than SocialOomph.

TrueTwit is a Twitter Validation service used by many. The free version of TrueTwit sends a validation DM when someone follows to make sure it’s an actual human being. The initiator then has to click on the validation link to confirm their place in the world of humanity.

For $20 a year, you can get their premium service. I setup this service on every Twitter account I create. The premium service will automatically validate your account without having to manually click on the link when following someone. There are currently over 51,000 TrueTwit members and when you begin to follow hundreds of people a day, you will run into them and their validation service. The premium automation then becomes a huge time-saver!

One of the other features of the premium service is that you can auto-follow accounts that not only follow you, but they pass TrueTwit’s analysis of whether or not it’s a SPAM account. Thus, you have replaced the SocialOomph auto-follow service. The $20 annual payment works out to $1.66 a month, almost half of SocialOomph’s cost. You can also write a custom validation message to send to your new followers as well.

Another aspect of the premium service is that you can automatically unfollow users that have unfollowed you. There are several more services included in the premium package which I will not dive into right now.

So this is one alternative to replace SocialOomph’s former paid service. Like I said, even when I used SocialOomph’s free service, I still used TrueTwit as well. I recommend adding it to your arsenal of Twitter tools.

I will post more articles this week on SocialOomph alternatives…

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Social Oomph Begins Charging For Key Services

March 21, 2011 By Mason 3 Comments

Social Oomph Begins Charging For Key Services

Social Oomph has been a favorite tool for serious Twitter users for several years now. I have used Social Oomph’s free services every time I’ve setup a Twitter account for myself or a customer.

Social Oomph has always offered “Premium” services that they charge for, but they’ve also offered a package of services for free as an alternative. There were two key Twitter services in the “Free Package” that I really appreciated:

1. Sending Welcome DM’s Automatically

2. Auto-Following Each Person Who Follows You

I’ve leaned on these services to enable myself and my clients to build relationships on Twitter and practice good Twitter etiquette.

Unfortunately, Social Oomph has promoted these services into the “Fee” category..The cost for these “Twitter Automation Features” is $3.97. Granted, it’s not a lot of money, but it’s about $3.97 more a month compared to what I am used to.

What I think (allow me to “stress” the word “think”) happened, is Social Oomph bought out a competitor, called “Tweet Later.” Tweet Later also offered similar services for free. With their main competition gone, Social Oomph currently has clear sailing to charge for these features.

I’ve already had people contacting asking me about free alternatives. I’ll be posting more articles this week on this very topic, presenting some different options in light of these changes by Social Oomph.

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