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While I think it's great to use time management tools to help you in your social media efforts, something that tactics like this seem to overlook is the question of how reduplication of messages and efforts actually helps build your brand or your presences. Does it? What's been your experience with this? I think this tactic you propose is probably only useful when you use it to update statuses but also have a real-time presence on the sites - otherwise, the relationship-building and conversational element of social networking is lost and you're just putting up a billboard of yourself, in essence. Online, people don't want billboards, they want interaction, authenticity, and mostly -real.
What do you think?
I agree that nothing replaces the full interaction. I approach this more from the angle of the little things like updating my status to: "josh: really doesn't like moving." I do it once with Ping.fm and all my sites are updated, if someone replies I can continue that conversation on Facebook or whatever.
As for the ASP (autosocialposter) that is purely for backlinks to my post. I wrote about Seth Godin Tribes right when it came out and because of that Plugin I ranked higher than his blog and Amazon.com because I had those instant backlinks. This isnt the case anymore but it did provide a flood of traffic.