Twitter Apps: Web

Until recently, the primary way I accessed Twitter was through the official website. Thanks to @trekkieb47, I have signed up for a service called Hootsuite. What makes this service so special? Hootsuite allows you to work with columns and tabs, making it easy to group various activities together. On twitter.com, to see @ Replies and Direct Messages, you would have to navigate away from the page you are on. Hootsuite eliminates this by allowing you to have all of these in separate columns on one page. You can create tabs for virtually anything (I have a tab for news and created a column under that with various tweets from several new agencies and a column for tech news). Creating columns are easy with the ability to type the name of the twitter accounts you want shown, dragging and dropping them into the column, having search terms displayed, among other options.

If you have multiple twitter accounts or you are a business with multiple people sending out tweets, this service is right up your ally. You can create multiple users via the settings options and add multiple accounts. Hootsuite allows you to choose the twitter account you want to tweet from or you can send the same tweet to all accounts at once. Another handy feature is “Send Later” which allows you to enter a tweet and select a time and date to send it... later. Every business likes to have statistics. Hootsuite allows you to track the links you post (Note: the statistics are only avilable for tweets using their url shortener Ow.ly).

For more information please check out their website @ http://hootsuite.com or check out their youtube video tour embedded below!