myTweetPack is Cloud software. There is some set-up to do.

The first thing you'll need to do is to run through the setup interview. It should take about a half hour or so. This is pretty much a one-and-done thing, unless you feel like fine tuning it later.

We STRONGLY suggest you follow the SetUp Interview to get maximum benefit from myTweetPack! You can find the SetUp Interview under the More tab on the members' menu.

Do it right on Twitter, there's no point in reinventing the wheel. If, however, you want it stored for later reuse and tweeted several times, then just add our auto-curation flag, #pack! (the exclamation point is important). The system will find it, store it and schedule out tweets.

Sure, if you want to! myTweetPack is a complement to Twitter not a replacement.

You can follow people, unfollow them, retweet, like, reply, whatever. With one Caveat: If you have multiple Twitter tools running at the same time, you may run afoul of Twitter's rules. Or, you may attempt to post duplicate tweets or retweets which Twitter will reject.

It really is great! That one little thing cut over 20 minutes off my daily routine. The system periodically scans member tweets looking for the hashtag #pack!. That's #pack with an exclamation point. That exclamation is important to differentiate from #packing, #packersSuck, or #packersRule.

Once it finds #pack!, the system stores the Tweet and schedules a bunch of supporting tweets.

To use it is easier than falling off a chair in an Irish Pub.

• Find something you want to share.
• Click the Share-to-Twitter button (found on every website in the world).
• Add #pack! to the share text in the box that pops up. Don't forget the "!" !
• TAHHHDAHHHHH! You're done!

They're two different things that do nearly the same thing.

Think of your Pack as your friends, or people you respect and want to rewteet. They can be myTweetPack Members or not. You can have up to about 30 people in your Pack. Once a day, the system will collect the 10 most recent tweets from each and set them aside. It will then grab enough of those tweets at random, to match the number of daily tweets from your Pack you set in the Settings Tab. It will schedule those and delete the rest.

Your Super-Pack is your Alpha Wolves as a group. Alphas are your personal micro-influnecers. You can have up to 5 Alphas. Periodically, the system will collect their tweets. It will then grab enough of those tweets at random, to match the number of daily tweets from your Super-Pack you set in the Settings Tab. It will schedule those.

The big difference is that ALL Super-Pack tweets are collected, stored, and made available, while Pack Tweets are only the last ten from each Pack member. Super-Pack tweets are stored for 45 days then deleted. Pack tweets are collected and deleted daily.

It took me three tries to "get" Twitter. It wasn't until I stepped back and realized that following someone else's followers was a waste of time that I started getting somewhere. On Twitter, anyone can follow anyone. I needed something more targeted. I needed a greater degree of proof of willingness to engage. That's when I realized I needed micro-influencers. We call them Alpha Wolves.

Alphas are big, busy accounts. Just being big is not good enough. They must be busy. They must retweet others. Others must retweet them. They must mention others and others must mention them. That's important because we don't care about their followers or who they follow. We only care about who they engage with and who engages with them.

The system will use your Alphas in a number of ways. It will scan their timelines to find who they retweet or mention. It will store those people in your Potential Follows List. It will do the same for those people who retweet or mention either you or your Alphas. It will add anyone who added you or your Alphas to a Twitter list to your Potential Follows List.

I cannot overstate the importance of choosing a good set of Alpha Wolves. Once chosen they are not cut in stone. You can swap out under-performing Alphas or just switch them up to see if another will work better.

That's very hard to determine on a global level. Much depends on your account and the type of person you want to attract. Alphas need to be larger than you. That's a given, but size alone is not the determining factor. Remember, we don't bother with their followings. We want those they engage with and those who engage with them. It isn't enough to build a large following. We want a targeted following.

Let's look at the Alpha most new tweetWolves choose, @TonyRobbins. There's no doubt that Mr. Robbins is an Alpha Male, but, how does he fare as an Alpha Wolf?

As of right now, @TonyRobbins has 3,074,236 followers. That's plenty big enough. Again, we don't really care. We don't bother following followers. Besides, how targeted can 3 million people be?

@TonyRobbins is barely active. There are less than 3 tweets a day on average. Also, the account rarely retweets or mentions anyone. There is next to nothing to mine.

True, @TonyRobbins is likely retweeted and mentioned often. That may be enough for you. On the other hand, everybody and their uncle may mention him. That defeats the purpose of targeting a following.

Choose him if you wish, it's your system. Personnally, I would pass. @TonyRobbins is big, but not engaged enough, not busy enough for me.

Let's look at another, my friend John White's account, @juanblanco76. John's account is far smaller than @TonyRobbins, but much busier. John "only" has 127,122 followers right now. But, John retweets, mentions, and gets added to Twitter Lists like nobody's buisness.

If I had to choose between @juanblanco76 or @TonyRobbins @juanblanco76 would win hands down.

To be sure, it would be much simpler to just follow directly. Simpler, but in violation of Twitter's automation rules. Besides, storing Potential Follows allows us to sort and refine who we want to follow.

Once you decide to follow someone, the actual follow is scheduled. That too avoids violating Twitter's Rules. It also spreads them out to avoid wild swings in your counts.

Let us go on the record as saying unfollowing is not a punsihment for not following you back. We follow because we have a genuine interest in someone's activity. If Twitter didn't have follow limits, we would likely never unfollow anyone! That said, Twitter does have follow limits in place.

Once an account approaches a follow limit, unposted scheduled follows are deleted and returned to Potential Follows. The account goes into a Cleaning Mode where it unfollows those who don't follow back. Again, this is not a punishment! We simply remove those who have shown no interest in us to free up follow room.

You can force stop following or cleaning directly on the Dashboard or on the Multi-Account Snapshot page.

IMPORTANT: Since switching between follow mode and cleaning mode is automatic, you should check your account periodicaly. We do not follow automatically! That too would be in violation of Twitter's Rules.

First, I assume you have already set your Alpha Wolves (micro-influencers). Clicking on Collect List Adds from the EZ ToDo List will pull in everyone who added you or your Alphas to a Twitter List. Next and also on the EZ ToDo list, select Process Mentions and RTs. As its name implies, that will pull in anyone the Alphas retweeted or mentioned, and anyone who retweeted or mentioned you or your Alphas. It will also pull in Alpha Tweets for possible future retweeting.

If that isn't enough, visit Build Follows List on The EZ ToDO list. You will go to a page where you can:

• Pull in Potential Follows from a hashtag (useful after a Twitter Chat, not so much any other time)
• Pull in those who added any Twitter Handle to a Twitter List
• Pull in those who were added to a particular person's, particular Twitter List. For example, Mashable has many lists, some very large. You can choose one from a list and pull in both memebers and subscribers

REMEMBER: These functions build your Potential Follows list, they do not follow anybody!

Linking is a great idea. You just create your content and feeds pull it in and it promotes itself. We use existing or custom-built RSS or ATOM feeds to link your content to myTweetPack. Linking is easy. Simply, complete the Request RSS feed form found on the Tweet Functions page. We'll handle the rest.

You decide if what we pull in is stored and tweeted or just stored.

You can link:

• Most blogs
• beBee Producer posts (last 8 plus others going forward)
• LinkedIn Articles (last 50, plus others going forward)
• YouTube Videos
• iTunes podcasts
• Medium accounts
• SquareSpace podcasts and blogs
• For Contributors only: HuffPost, GoodMen, Entrepreneur, Forbes, INC
• We can usually create other feeds as needed. Reach out if you need another

Caveats:

1. Important: If a feed pulls in a post you do not want to tweet, Do not delete it! Instead, delete the scheduled tweets for it. Otherwise, it will pop right back up the next time your feed is polled. The system only pulls in posts it has not already pulled. If you delete the stored post, the system will assume it's a new one and write it to the database.
2. We poll feeds often. Do not ask to link a feed service. Chances are we will poll too often for free accounts and get you in hot water. Send us the link to the actual content instead.
3. Niume blogs are not linkable. There is nothing to mine.
4. Note that links to Medium accounts pull in everything you do, not just articles
5. There are no preset limits as to how many feeds you can link. We reserve the right to refuse to link any feed for any reason.
6. Only the Contributing Author may link to any Big Media feed (Forbes, INC, etc).

We store tweets so that we can reuse them, share them between controlled accounts, edit them, clone them, and auto-fill our activity when life gets in the way. We store them in Campaigns

You access your Stored Tweets on the Tweet Functions page. Click on Stored Tweets to see a list of Campaigns and how many tweets are in each. Click the apporiate link to view the stored tweets.

When you view the tweets, you will see how many are (S)cheduled, (T)weeted, and (P)ending. At the left, you will see a series of icons:

• lets you view that tweet's activity
• lets you schedule more tweets using that stored tweet.
• lets you build Click-to-Tweet links for that tweet.
• lets you edit or clone that tweet. Cloning is useful for A/B testing.
• lets you delete scheduled instances of that tweet.
• deletes that tweet, but keeps scheduled instances! To delete both scheduled and the stored tweet itself, First hit to delete scheduled instances, then hit this button Do not use this button on tweets stored via RSS/ATOM feeds. They will only reappear the next time the feed is polled.

Yes you can. Many tools say it isn't possible, but we do it all the time, although it is a somewhat more advanced thing. A video will auto-play muted if is is under 140 seconds long. Here's how:

1. Go to Twitter and tweet what you want including the video.
2. With that tweet still on screen, hit the down arrow (tweet top-right) and select Embed Tweet
3. A new window will appear with a bunch of gobbledegook highlighted. Copy it to your clipboard (ctrl+C, cmd+C)
4. From the More tab on the myTweetPack menu, select Twitter functions, then choose Add a Tweet For Later Scheduling.
5. Paste the gobbledegook you copied into the box titled Embed Code and hit Continue
6. The system will extract what it needs. Modify whatever you like and hit Save.
7. Done.

Sure, but, understand that this is a more advanced topic. When you link your content sources, and if you are regularly creating new content, you may never need to use these functions. Use them to recycle tweets and rebuild new schedules. Apologies, but this will be a long answer.

You can find the scheduling functions by clicking Stored Tweets on the Tweet Functions tab, then clicking View Campaign. That will list tweets stored in that campaign. Click the icon to get to Scheduling. You will see 6 methods. No one really uses all 6. People tend to gravitate to their favorites.The methods are described below.

By Minute Interval

This one is the simplest but very powerful. As its name implies, it schedules an instance of the selected tweet every X minutes. Just tell the system how many tweets you want scheduled and how many minutes apart.

You can also tell it what date and time to start tweeting, and, if you control many accounts, which should retweet and when. FYI: You know an hour has 60 minutes. A day has 1,440. A week has 10,080. Try to keep it within our lifetimes. ;-)

IMPORTANT: Don't use commas in numbers. Ex: use 1000 NOT 1,000!

Build a Daily Schedule

This method splits a day into 24 hours and then splits each hour into the first and last 30 minutes. You choose which block of time the tweet should post and how many days worth of tweets to schedule. Note that it is possible to schedule tweets in the past using this method. Obviously, those won't post.

You can also tell the system what date to start tweeting, and, if you control many accounts, which should retweet and when. Tweeting from controlled accounts always works on a Minute Interval basis

By Daily Frequency

This method randomizes X number of tweets over Y number of days. You set the number of tweets, the number of days, and the time range within those days to tweet.

You can also tell the system what date to start tweeting, and, if you control many accounts, which should retweet and when. Tweeting from controlled accounts always works on a Minute Interval basis

By Weekly Frequency

One of my faves. This method randomizes X number of tweets within a week over Y number of weeks. You set the number of tweets, the number of weeks, and when to start the schedule.

You can also tell the system what date to start tweeting, and, if you control many accounts, which should retweet and when. Tweeting from controlled accounts always works on a Minute Interval basis

Monthly at Set Date and Time

Pretty self-explanatory. Tell the system how many months to schedule, at what time to post, and on which dates. Dates are in a comma-seperated list. It's a good idea to keep dates between 1 and 28. You won't hurt anything if you schedule for February 30, but you won't tweet either.

You can also tell the system what date to start tweeting, and, if you control many accounts, which should retweet and when. Tweeting from controlled accounts always works on a Minute Interval basis

Phased Schedule

I call this the writer's method. This method is a version of the Daily Frquency method that builds up to 4 consecutive schedules.

You tell the system how many tweets to post over how many days for each of the phases. Set it to 0 if you want to ignore a phase. Each phase starts when the previous ends. I included my preferred settings as defaults.

You can also tell the system what date to start tweeting, and, if you control many accounts, which should retweet and when. Tweeting from controlled accounts always works on a Minute Interval basis

Stored tweet are frameworks for actual tweets. They include a text and/or an image and/or a link. They include evrything you want every posted tweet to have.

Tweet Instances are the actual tweet that is scheduled to post. They draw from the stored tweet, but are seperate things. Changes you make while scheduling only apply to that/those Instance(s). So, if you change the text or the hashtags on scheduled instances the stored tweet remains unchanged.

That distinction is important. You are free to test different versions without destroying the original.