TWEETHOOT

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter accounts. 

Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles.

You can add another Twitter account easily in the settings window. 

Tweeting from any of your accounts is really easy and doesn’t require any switching, you can even cross post tweets. 

Managing all of your Twitter accounts couldn’t be easier, simply create columns for your various accounts so you can keep track of everything, all at once in TweetDeck.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is one of many tools referred to as a “Social Media Management System” or tool. It helps you keep track and manage your many social network channels.

 It can enable you to monitor what people are saying about your brand and help you respond instantly.

You can view streams from multiple networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and post updates or reply directly. With so many networks for businesses to manage, it’s no doubt Social Media Management tools have become so popular and relied upon by many companies today.

If you manage the updates for your business’ social networks, it’s highly likely that you will have heard of Hootsuite. In a survey from monitoring tool Pingdom, Hootsuite came up as the top Social Media Management System, with over 20% of companies using it to manage their social media empires.  It was launched back in 2008 by Invoke Media and since then has accrued an impressive array of features.

7 reasons why you may want to consider using Hootsuite to manage your social network channels

1.  Monitor Multiple Streams in One Place

2. You Have a Team Managing Your Social Media Empire

3.  Managing Customer Service on Twitter

4. You Want to Cross Post to Your Google+ Page

5. Completely Cross Platform

6.  Get Free Reports by Email

7. You Want to Connect Lots of Services Together

Source

Gray, I. (2013). 7 Reasons Why You SHOULD Use Hootsuite. [online] Seriously Social with Ian Anderson Gray. Available at: http://iag.me/socialmedia/reviews/7-reasons-why-you-should-use-hootsuite/ [Accessed 6 Nov. 2014].