The web is practically littered with them, so its often difficult to find out which one's are the best for your particular needs and which are user friendly.
Two of the most popular are Tweetdeck and Hootsuite, and you'll probably find them near the top of most lists for this kind of software. I used both, for the first time, and compared them.
Firstly, I noticed that they are both fairly similar in what they allow users to do. Both services allow user interface between Facebook, Twitter or any other social media account.
Both also have URL shorteners, which comes in handy when trying to make the most of your 140 characters on Twitter.
They both also allow you to schedule tweets for a specific time. However, Hootsuite introduced this feature first.
Here's a screenshot of my Hootsuite dashboard as an example:
One of the major advantages of Tweetdeck is that it allows users to link an unlimited amount of social media accounts on to the same dashboard. Whereas Hootsuite can only link one Facebook and one Twitter account.
In Hootsuite updates seemed to be faster, but I’m not sure if that’s just my browser (Firefox), computer or internet connection.
Both Hootsuite and Tweetdeck use columns as a way to display tweets from different people and both allow the user to create as many columns as they want.
Tweetdeck also has an auto-complete function when searching for a Twitter username, as long as you are following that specific user you are searching for.
Although Hootsuite has more functions and options I prefer to use Tweetdeck because of its simplicity and usability.
This makes for an all-round more pleasant experience for users like myself, who are only using it for personal accounts.
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