With the rapid rise and expansion of Twitter, most people are finding that constantly login in their twitter accounts via an online browser is getting very tiresome. Hence, desktop twitter clients are becoming very popular with heavy twitter users.
The top three Twitter desktop clients at the moment are HootSuite, Seesmic and TweetDeck. These three desktop clients started off as Twitter only platforms but due to increased demand by the public they have also included Facebook and LinkedIn accounts as well. If you have any one of these accounts you would be able to manage multiple Twitter, Facebook or even LinkedIn accounts all under one roof. Let us review each platform and see their features mainly for Twitter.
HootSuite
HootSuite is especially useful for people who need to manage multiple Twitter accounts due its tabbing system. The tabs allow the user to keep each Twitter or other social networking feed such as Facebook or LinkedIn completely separate from each other. It is entirely web-based which means it has the convenience of being accessible from any computer. It also has handy features such as allowing tweets or posts to be sent at a future time or date which eliminates the need to use a scheduling web page in addition to HootSuite. The final benefit of HootSuite is that it provides some limited reporting on your Tweeting activity without charge although detailed analytics are not available on the free version.
Seesmic
This platform, while fully functional, is constantly being developed and now has several variations according to the user’s needs. It has a popular mobile application that integrates well with the desktop version. Seismic has an easy to use interface that allows Twitter and other feeds to be combined and displayed according to the user’s preferences. It can display up to 7 tweets from a single feed on screen at time. Seesmic runs behind other applications and allows the user to tailor the columns to their needs to adequately manage their social networking.
TweetDeck
Is currently the most popular social media desktop. It also uses the column display similar to Seesmic with multiple columns allowed for Twitter and other feeds. It is more limited in column features than Seismic due to the fact that it’s settings are not as flexible and only displays 5 posts at once. It does allow retweeting however which is a useful feature and also provides the option of receiving notifications of new tweets or posts received as either a simple notification or by displaying the whole tweet in a pop up box.
Conclusion
Each of these three platforms has their pros and cons and the perfect social media desktop would be one that combined the best features of each of the three. However since each has slightly different uses HootSuite is better for someone who simultaneously manages several accounts and will use the benefits of the scheduling function, Seesmic is the most user friendly for creating a clean display for managing tweeting needs whereas Tweetdeck has the advantage of the notifications which can allow you to work on another window and only access it if something pops up that you wish to comment on.
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