Review: Tweet Glide
Tweet Glide is the invention of Mike Filsaime, a well-know Internet marketing guru. If you’re familiar with Tweet Deck, this is similar, but it adds in a viral advertising component.
Tweet Glide Appearance
When you start up Tweet Glide you see a screen made up of five columns. You may have to scroll to see all five. These columns can be in any order and can be removed individually (with some restrictions), but are basically:
- Tweets – Similar to the Twitter “Home” page, this shows all the tweets from your friends as well as your own out-going tweets.
- Ads – Shows ads from other Tweet Glide users who have earned credits or paid for them.
- Direct Messages – All messages sent directly to you, instead of tweeted to all the sender’s friends.
- Mentions – Shows any tweets that have mentioned you (your Twitter ID) or thanked you.
- Favorites – Shows the specific tweets you’ve marked as favorites in Twitter.
You can leave Tweet Glide open on your desktop and watch as tweets come in and send them out whenever you want. You can also reduce it to a system tray icon where it continues working and you can open it anytime. Of course, you can always close it completely and come back later when it will update itself upon opening.
Tweet Glide Neat Features
One cool feature of Tweet Glide is the ability to tweet more than 140 characters. Sometimes you just can’t figure out how to say what you need in that small space, so this comes in handy. What will show is the first 140 characters (or a few less) with a link to the rest of the tweet, housed on Tweet Glide’s servers. This saves you from having endless run-on tweets, continuing your story from one to the next and possibly getting removed as a friend for sending too much.
Opinion on Tweet Glide
When I first started with Tweet Glide about a month ago I wasn’t sure about it. For one, it seemed too slow and was possibly slowing down my whole computer in its zeal to retrieve the latest tweets from all my tweeple! There have been a couple updates to the software since then, and that is no longer a concern. It also contains settings with which you can control how often Tweet Glide goes out to retrieve Tweets for you.
My second issue was more with their sales page than with the actual product. They seemingly over-sold the viral advertising part of it in my opinion. They went on and on about how great this feature was and how the software was free. They never mentioned how many tweets you had to send to get a decent amount of ads out, so I think that was just a little deceptive on their part.
The real story with the ads is you can buy them, or you can save up credits which will be used as they are earned. One credit is one ad going out. One credit is earned by posting three tweets through Tweet Glide.
Now, I’m not one of those people who spends hours tweeting. I try to get on and send a tweet or two a day, but that’s it. So in the month I’ve been doing this, I’ve earned around 10 credits. They give you ten for getting Tweet Glide, so I’ve had 20 ads go out in that time.
Now that’s not a lot, and it’s arguable that putting ads in regular tweets has no limits and will be seen by even more people, as they aren’t limited to Tweet Glide users. Consider, however, that the Tweet Glide ad will sit on the user’s ad column much, much longer than any ad on the tweet column would. For example, I currently follow around 2000 people. The amount of tweets that comes by in a minute is tremendous. A tweet will stay on my Tweet Glide screen for about 30 seconds before being replaced by a whole lot of newer tweets. An ad, however, will stay there all day; maybe more! There’s little chance my ad won’t be read, where there’s an absolutely HUGE chance my tweets won’t be read. Plus, I’ve definitely seen traffic from my Tweet Glide ads, and at least one sale — not bad for free!
All in all, I like Tweet Glide for its convenience, longer tweets and added advertising component. It works well, and it’s free! What more could you ask?
Get your copy of Tweet Glide here.
