The number 1 complaint I have for this class is not having enough time to tweet. Well I have just stumbled across the secret to tweeting in 10 minutes! You only two tools to do so: Hootsuite and Twitter Lists. Once you've got these setup, you'll be tweeting in 10 minutes.
There is a 5 step process: (1) Set up your Hootsuite account. (2) Create Twitter Lists. (3) Add your Twitter Lists to Hootsuite. (4) Add #hashtag streams to Hootsuite. (5) Begin your 10-minute per day routine.
I tried this process and it was very simple to find the website and easy to navigate the page. As I was logging into my twitter account, an error occurred. The popularity of the new website made their servers crash. After waiting a few minutes, I reloaded the page and I was back on track to tweeting in 10 minutes.
As soon as you start the website helps you add streams, create tabs and schedule messages:
After fooling around with the website I realized you can have each tab be a different "genre." You can have a personal tab, a school tab, and a work tab:
Hootsuite is a lot like Tweetdeck, but it's more organized and based around you as a tweeter. Allowing you to follow your Lists and also all of your favorites, per tab.
For more information visit:
The link for Hootsuite:
In addition to allowing you to follow your Twitter accounts, Hootsuite allows you follow your Facebook profile, Google+, YouTube, Tumblr and Instagram accounts.
I haven't looked into or tried HootSuite or TwitterDeck. I think I'll check it out this weekend. I too have been struggling to remember to Tweet or look at Twitter over the fact that my feeds are unorganized and it's just annoying to navigate.
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This is really cool! I use TweetDeck to manage 3 twitter accounts and sometimes it's confusing and not as organized as I was hoping it would be. It takes some getting used to, but now that I read your article I think I might try out HootSuite!
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