HootSuite — the free professional web client of Twitter intended for active tvitteryan and business users. This wonderful service works also with accounts of Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Foursquare, with blogs on WordPress; it is connected to Ping.fm that more than 40 social networks allow to refresh pages.
HootSuite supports work with several accounts of Twitter and has easily configured multicolumnar interface.
You can create separate tabs for each account. On a tab several columns for all flows of tweets are placed: Home Feed, Mentions, Direct Messages, Sent Tweets, Favorite Tweets, etc. and also columns with search queries and lists of Twitter. Tabs and columns can be dragged, interchanging the position of them.
There is a separate convenient module People for management of your followers, those who are followed by you, and lists. Here also main information from a profile of each person is specified.
In the section of Stats the detailed statistics on links in tweets (totally and according to each link separately) helping to understand better the audience is provided and it is reasonable to manage the microblog.
HootSuite: free professional web client of Twitter
One more HootSuite function which is necessary for promotion of your websites on Twitter: monitoring of RSS of the website and relaying of headings of new posts on Twitter.
HootSuite: monitoring of RSS of the website and relaying of headings of new posts on Twitter
Developers implemented also the mechanism of the automatic postponed publication with setting a date and time. It is possible to find for it a number of applications: congratulations of acquaintances, the personal system of reminders, maintenance of life of the microblog even then when you are too busy or you sleep, etc.
HootSuite allows to postpone the publication of tweets for a certain time
HootSuite allows to open access to the account to several people that is important for groups, jointly leading the microblog, the page on Facebook, etc. At the same time the one who created the account on HootSuite is appointed the administrator and can manage access for participants to different accounts of Twitter and other supported services.
HootSuite - the web client of Twitter ideal for team work
Other interesting possibilities of HootSuite:
- viewing chains of replies, information from profiles tvitteryan, search results on hashtags — without leaving the HootSuite interface;
- the publication of a tweet at once in several Twitter microblogs and in other supported services;
- an opportunity to use Google Analytics for maintaining statistics on links;
- bukmarklt for the browser, allowing to publish quickly in Twitter the link to the page browsed at present;
- loading of images and files with the automatic publication of the reduced links;
- preserving of tweets in draft copies (it is possible to store thus and often published sample messages);
- printing and export to files of the CSV format of statistics on links;
- visual and sound notifications on updates;
- existence of applications for iPhone (the paid version and facilitated free, with restriction for the number of accounts) and Android (with the same separation into paid and free versions).
It is possible to carry insufficiently graceful interface and absence at the first view of clarity of it to minuses of HootSuite in how to carry out some tasks of a tweeting. But already in a few minutes you understand acquaintances to this great web service that before you the powerful and very convenient management tool Internet activity allowing to use advantages of microblogging in full.