HootSuite is the most useful Twitter app

By Len Gutman on July 26th, 2010 In Social Media

I’ve long been a fan of killing several birds with one stone and social media is no different than any other communications tool — your message will be more widely received if you use more than one vehicle. Whether it’s employee communications or marketing communications, my mantra has always been “give the people what they want.”

HootSuite provides users with the ability to create one message and automatically send it to multiple social tools. I use it to blast out my blog posts to Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. I simply provide HootSuite with my blog RSS feed and whenever I blog it automatically blasts the post to my other social sites. Did I mention it’s automatic? As in, I don’t have to do anything?

HootSuite has many other great features, including a nifty browser plug in called a Hootlet that lets you quickly post information from any website via a pop-up screen.

I thought I’d share my favorite Twitter app today because Mashable just posted a new list of what it calls the Top 20 Sites to Improve Your Twitter Experience. It’s a bit overwhelming frankly! What’s your favorite or can’t-live-without Twitter app?

HootSuite is the most useful Twitter app

Comments

Adam Nollmeyer Says:
July 26th, 2010 at 4:45 pm

I’m logging back into hootsuite as it’s been over 1/2 a year since I’ve played there. I’ve been a @cotweet sort of guy. Hootsuite didn’t quite have everything I wanted, but it looks much better today.

Linda VandeVrede Says:
July 26th, 2010 at 5:21 pm

I’ll have to try Hootsuite. I like the idea of sending a blog post out to all these social network sites, but I personally am not fond of people who post their tweet to all these sites. I’d rather see my contacts/friends use each networking site to best advantage, rather than “one tweet fits all.”

Diane D'Angelo Says:
July 26th, 2010 at 5:53 pm

I still prefer TweetDeck. I like the layout. However, I do find I miss a lot of tweets and RT’s, which is annoying….

Janae Jaynes-Learned Says:
July 27th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

Hootsuite has been my favorite for awhile and it just keeps getting better.

I love that you can post to Facebook business pages as well as your profile page. The url shortener that has built in tracking is great to track link clicks. Scheduling tweets is really convenient as well.

Both Android and iphone apps import all of your tabs and settings.

You can organize tabs, accounts, key word feeds, etc. to make monitoring easy.

If you want to follow your competition (or your teenager and his friends:-) without them knowing, Hootsuite makes it easy.

On your twitter web account create a “private” list. List the people you want to monitor, but don’t follow them. Since the list is private, they don’t know you listed them. Then create a stream on Hootsuite for that private list. You too can be a super secret cyber stalker!

Thanks for posting, Len!

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