How To Grow Your Twitter Audience Using Typefully
Typefully is used by 35,000+ creators to grow their audience on Twitter. Simply, it’s the best tweet creation and Twitter management tool on the market. Here’s why…
Why You Should Use Typefully?
Typefully is a tweet-creation tool that is designed exclusively with one goal in mind—to grow your Twitter account.
The tool comes packed with features that will;
- help users write better tweets,
- convert pre-written content into tweet threads,
- schedule tweets based on your profile’s most engaging timeslots,
- automatically retweet engaging and promotional tweets,
- add a pre-formatted Call To Action (CTA) at the end of a thread,
- integrate with Zapier to drive one-code automations with 1,000’s of other apps,
- enable collaboration through share draft tweets amongst your team,
- personalise your tweets with brand customisations,
- create a unique home page to showcase your tweets and twitter profile.
Typefully has been created by the writing team at MailBrew, which means that it is written by writers, for writers!
I’ve been using the fully paid service ($96/year) and it has made my life so much easier. Compared to many of the social media management tools out there, Typefully is clutter free and 100% focused on the tweeting job at hand.
It’s designed to make your life easier and more productive!
With over 35,000 creators using Typefully, it must be doing something right!
Write Better Tweets
The first thing that strikes you about Typefully is that it makes writing tweets super easy.
When you type or copy and paste more than 280 characters, the auto-thread feature notices and gives you the option to start a new thread. From there, Typefully magically turns your text into a Twitter thread.
Or, if you prefer to do it manually, it’s just as easy to do. By adding some empty lines, Typefully knows you want to create a new tweet in the thread.
Writing Prompts
If you’re stuck for inspiration on what to write next, click the Writing Prompts button.
Typefully has partnered with Mattia Righetti to create a library of high-quality prompts, each coming with an example tweet to take inspiration from. This is a large selection of templates and prompts to help you create your next tweet AND write consistently.
Bring Life To Your Tweets
The Typefully editor integrates with GIPHY, so you can search for and embed a GIF without leaving the app.
Typefully also allows users to add a colour frame to images and add your “brand” and personal style to your tweet media.
At the time of writing, this was a beta feature.
Schedule Tweets To Maximise Engagement
Typefully’s scheduling tool, called "Queue," comes with a powerful set of features.
- There is no limit to the number of tweets you can schedule into the future when you are on the paid plan. (For a comparison of the Free v Paid plan, see the table at the end of this post.)
- Typefully makes light work of the retweeting and promoting your tweets. The “auto-retweet” features lets you schedule when and for how long your tweet will be retweeted. From 12 hours after the first tweet, to weeks later, tweets can be set up to reappear in your feed without any further action.
- There’s also an “auto-plug” feature that is triggered by the number of shares or likes the tweet gets.
- The “unroll” feature adds an unroll link to the end of your thread and posts the first tweet onto your Typefully profile page (more on that in a minute).
Finding The Best Time To Tweet
Under the "Grow" label in the app, Typefully's analytics tool gives you a full look at how you're doing on Twitter.
When it comes to scheduling your tweets, knowing the times of the day that your audience is engaging with you the most is critical. Typefully shows you a visual timeline that pinpoints your best times of the day.
Typefully lets you choose these times when you’re scheduling your latest tweet to make sure that you get maximum exposure and engagement.
The analytics profile also shows the number of followers, impressions, conversion rates, engagement rates, the number of retweets (which can help you find tweets that your followers like) and profile clicks.
The analytics can be viewed in short timelines (the last 7 or 14 days) or longer (3 months or more) to help you measure your Twitter performance against your goals and KPIs.
Personal Landing Page (micro-blogsite)
Typefully comes with your very own personal profile page. If you don’t have a website or landing page, this will do it for you.
Typefully call it your “Profile Page." It’s essentially a micro-blogging page for all your best threads.
It’s fully integrated into the Typefully app, and you can pin your best tweets to the customisable profile page, where you can add links to other sites and services where you have a presence.
If you’re used to using a link-management service like beacons.ai or bitly.com, you should consider switching to the Typefully profile as your personal landing page.
Collaborative Team Working
One of Typefully’s newest features is team sharing and real-time collaborative editing.
With this feature, writers can share draught tweets with teammates, invite comments and collaboration, and work together to create even better tweets.
This requires members to be on a team plan.
At the time of writing, this was $39/month with yearly billing, or $49/month with monthly billing.
There is a facility on the free plan to let anyone with a Typefully account comment on your draughts, should you wish to open yourself up to the mercy of the crowd!
Automation with Zapier
The no-code automation platform, Zapier, lets you connect Typefully with thousands of different apps to enable countless new workflows.
For example, you can use the new integration to:
- Post a message to Slack anytime you publish a new tweet or thread,
- Create new drafts in Typefully from Google Docs,
- Add scheduled drafts to your calendar,
- Get an email every time a draft has been published.
- and many more things…
Check out many more examples of automation on the official Typefully page on Zapier.
How Does Typefully Work?
Typefully uses the Minimal Twitter browser extension that was designed to remove distractions and clutter from Twitter.
Minimal Twitter is a browser extension developed by Thomas Wang that runs on Chrome, Firefox, or Edge.
Typefully’s Pricing Plans
As you can see from this image below, I’m on the single account starter plan. It has all the features of the Creator plan that I need.
Which is great, because that’s all I need!
And all at a great value, especially when you compare it with the one-size-fits-all social media scheduling tools that are not designed exclusively for Twitter.
If this massive list of features and the value for money subscription pricing has whet your appetitive, go over to Typefully and check it out using this link.
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Originally published at https://rickhuckstep.com on October 12, 2022.
