Sending the Office Replies in Twitter as it Become a preferred Medium of Communication for The People
Most of the people are preferring Titter as it became a preferred medium of communication for the employees. The messages through email may never get read in some worst conditions, It will get caught in the Spam folder but coming to tweets and @mentions are very likely to get noticed.
While you are travelling if you have a limited access of Internet, we can create an “out of office” reply in the email program to let the people know that you cannot be able to respond them right away. How about doing something similar for people who are trying to reach you through Twitter?
What The Twitter Auto-Responder Will do
Twitter offers no easy way to setup the out of office auto-replies but we can easily and quickly add such a feature to the Twitter account with the help of Google Script.
First mention the start date and the end date when the auto-responder is active and if any tweets will automatically sent to you during this period and get a reply from your Twitter account saying you are out of office. The replies are sent only once if a person sends you more than one tweets during your vacation period, even they will get only one out-of-office auto-reply.
Setup of Out Office Replies in Twitter
Step 1: First Setup a Twitter App
1. Go to the website apps.twitter.com and sign-in with the Twitter account. now Create a new Twitter app screenshot, add a description to the website and put the URL https://spreadsheets.google.com/macros/ in the callback URL field.
2. If Once the Twitter app has been created, click on the tab Permissions and set the Read and Write Application. Click the Update Settings to save the changes in the Twitter.
3. Then finally Switch to the API Keys tab and make note of the Consumer API Key and Secret of API .
Step 2: Setup the Auto-responder Script
1. Click on the script to make a copy of the auto-responder script into Google Drive.
2. next Enter the start and end dates of vacation, the Twitter API keys and your Twitter handle.
3. Go to Run -> go to Run and Start initializing the auto-responder. if the script requests you to authorize access to certain Google Script services Say Yes.
4. Choose Run -> Then again Start the authorizing the script to post tweets from Twitter account.
The script will get invoked itself on the mentioned starting date and will respond to all incoming tweets until the end of the date. It will stop by itself automatically. we have to modify and distribute the source code with attribution.
When we want to another vacation, we need to do is just open the auto-responder script which is already present in Google Drive, then change the Start and End dates and to initialize the auto responder again. choose Start from the Run menu.
Most of the people are preferring Titter as it became a preferred medium of communication for the employees. The messages through email may never get read in some worst conditions, It will get caught in the Spam folder but coming to tweets and @mentions are very likely to get noticed.
While you are travelling if you have a limited access of Internet, we can create an “out of office” reply in the email program to let the people know that you cannot be able to respond them right away. How about doing something similar for people who are trying to reach you through Twitter?
What The Twitter Auto-Responder Will do
Twitter offers no easy way to setup the out of office auto-replies but we can easily and quickly add such a feature to the Twitter account with the help of Google Script.
First mention the start date and the end date when the auto-responder is active and if any tweets will automatically sent to you during this period and get a reply from your Twitter account saying you are out of office. The replies are sent only once if a person sends you more than one tweets during your vacation period, even they will get only one out-of-office auto-reply.
Setup of Out Office Replies in Twitter
Step 1: First Setup a Twitter App
1. Go to the website apps.twitter.com and sign-in with the Twitter account. now Create a new Twitter app screenshot, add a description to the website and put the URL https://spreadsheets.google.com/macros/ in the callback URL field.
2. If Once the Twitter app has been created, click on the tab Permissions and set the Read and Write Application. Click the Update Settings to save the changes in the Twitter.
3. Then finally Switch to the API Keys tab and make note of the Consumer API Key and Secret of API .
Step 2: Setup the Auto-responder Script
1. Click on the script to make a copy of the auto-responder script into Google Drive.
2. next Enter the start and end dates of vacation, the Twitter API keys and your Twitter handle.
3. Go to Run -> go to Run and Start initializing the auto-responder. if the script requests you to authorize access to certain Google Script services Say Yes.
4. Choose Run -> Then again Start the authorizing the script to post tweets from Twitter account.
The script will get invoked itself on the mentioned starting date and will respond to all incoming tweets until the end of the date. It will stop by itself automatically. we have to modify and distribute the source code with attribution.
When we want to another vacation, we need to do is just open the auto-responder script which is already present in Google Drive, then change the Start and End dates and to initialize the auto responder again. choose Start from the Run menu.
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