We built a bot that knows the best time to share your content
Hey friends, Wanted to share Yala [0] with you - it's a project we've been working on for several months now. Yala is a social media scheduling bot that knows the best time to post to your social networks [1]. We've built a proprietary algorithm that studies the followers on your accounts to determine when they're most likely to engage with your content. The way it works is really simple - you send Yala your content via Slack and she automatically schedules it for your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Yala's currently 100% free while we're experimenting with monetization options. It's been a…
We built a bot that knows the best time to share your content launched on October 21, 2016 with 8 votes, #1,797 of 3,690 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Yala is a social media scheduling bot that automatically posts content to Facebook and Twitter at optimal times for audience engagement. Users send content through Slack, and the bot uses an algorithm analyzing follower behavior to determine when to publish. Designed for social media managers and content creators, it was offered free during its initial experimental phase.
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Hey friends, Wanted to share Yala [0] with you - it's a project we've been working on for several months now. Yala is a social media scheduling bot that knows the best time to post to your social networks [1]. We've built a proprietary algorithm that studies the followers on your accounts to determine when they're…
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