disclaimer: am the twitterdub dev:
Without wanting to disrupt any external opinions of the program in this thread, if you have any specific questions on TD, do let me know.
At the end of the day, most bots do the same things (main features) then have a few specific features the others may not have which may be relevant to you or not. Other things to consider, updates / new features / support response etc
That was a very objective response rootjazz. That would make me definitely want to check out TwitterDub.
Heya guys,
I am currently trying to decide on wether i should buy followerliker or twitterdub for a few twitter account management.
They will be started from scratch and i wondered which of the bots you think would be better?
Regards,
DTJai
I personally have never used either TwitterDub or FollowLiker. I know those are the programs you are asking about in this thread, but I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in about the programs I DO use, just so you have a broader perspective of what's out there, so you can make a more informed decision.
I have used TweetAdder (which is now banned), TweetDemon, and now Twidium. I am currently in the process of switching all my twitter automation to Twidium, and then I will only use TweetDemon as supplemental to do anything Twidium doesn't do (which isn't much).
TweetDemon is a one time purchase and they are always making updates and they have good support. Twidium is a yearly fee (but worth it to me since my clients pay me monthly to do the work, if I was not getting paid to do Twitter management, I would not want to pay a yearly fee).
So far Twidium seems to only make updates every once in awhile, but they work at getting all updates done at the same time. TweetDemon has had down times, maybe about once every other month, it doesn't work for a day while they are doing maintenance. I think because it runs on their server (although I use proxies. I don't totally understand all the behind the scenes stuff of software/programming, etc).
Twidium has good support as well. So far I am only aware of one person who runs Twidium. There may be other people, but there is a main guy named Leonid who is the only person so far that I've spoken to from Twidium. He is very helpful when I have a question. It is just email support.
TweetDemon has a forum, so you can talk to the other people who use tweetdemon, along with the developers. The developers also have skype so you can contact them that way for help as well.
Every instance of TweetDemon that you have open, you can add tasks, and then all the tasks pretty much have to run the same way. So if you want to do different things with different twitter accounts (like follow different amounts of people each day, etc) then that's annoying because in order to do that you have to open more instances of the program, so you have more windows open and running, basically. The other problem I find with tweetdemon is that if you want to change the settings of any of the accounts, you have to stop running all of them. This has been a problem for tweeting because if one of my clients wants me to add more tweets or stop tweeting certain things, I have to stop all the tweets of all accounts I have running on one instance of tweetdemon. Then once I edit the tweets of one account, I can start back up again, but the problem is that tweetdemon starts back up at the beginning of a text file. It doesn't start tweeting back where it left off in the text document. So if it's already tweeted like 100 tweets, that's pretty much okay if the accounts start back up again at the beginning. But if it's only tweeted like 20 tweets from each account, that's not really enough buffer to start back up again at the same 20 tweets.
I don't know if all that makes sense, but this is the MAIN reason I'm switching to mostly using Twidium.
Twidium works more like TweetAdder, where each account runs separately and you can edit each account individually while all the others can continue running as scheduled. You don't have to have multiple windows of Twidium open, it is all in one window.
Twidium also just came out with their most recent update and it is better than before. It used to be two different programs, one for follow/unfollow, and one for tweeting etc. Now it's all one program.
Also, one thing that both Twidium and TweetAdder do is make it possible to post pictures inlay in the tweets (not as links, like if you were scheduling pics through hootsuite or something). That is a big benefit. But I still feel Twidium does a better job at that than TweetDemon.
I guess that's all for now.
I'm gonna check out followlater and twitterdub.
