Hootsuite, available here: http://hootsuite.com/ , is Twitter on steroids, in our opinion. Twitter itself has a decent interface but it’s missing a few of the tweaks that Hootsuite offers. We haven’t talked about Twitter very much but you should have a general idea of what it is by now.  We’ll do full posts on Twitter and Hootsuite later. Right now we want to spread the word about Hootsuite and explain a bit about it.

If you don’t use Twitter, you probably don’t understand why you’d need more than one account. Everyone here at Computers Made Simple has at least two Twitter accounts, one for business and one for fun. Some of us have more than two. The point of this is that Hootsuite allows you to link up to five social networking accounts, whether they are all Twitter or a combination of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

There isn’t any way to schedule tweets within Twitter. With Hootsuite you can easily schedule future tweets; even receive an email when the tweet is sent. Why would you want to schedule future tweets? Some Twitter users like to tweet links instead of their own thoughts and words. While we don’t agree with this, it’s common. Hootsuite allows you to collect links, schedule them for prime tweet times and then do something else. Additionally, Twitter users in other areas of the world who want to be noticed in North America, have to schedule tweets or they wouldn’t get any sleep, right?

Here are some of the Hootsuite offerings:

There are many versions of Hootsuite. Choose the right one for you. We use the Chrome extension and love it. There are apps for mobile devices as well as a full desktop program for Macs.

We’ll do more posts on Hootsuite in the near future but why not give it a shot? The basic version, the one we use, is free. If you’re in business, there are several paid options which help you tune your tweets in order to cultivate an audience.

Thanks for reading!