Overall Satisfaction with TweetDeck
We're a small business, so I'm the only one actively using Tweetdeck. My coordinator has it as well, but he is not using social media on a daily basis. It stays permanently open at all times on my 2nd monitor. Our business has 4 brands that I monitor and manage, plus my personal one. I'm able to keep up with opportunities where we might be able to be a part of a conversation, or learn new information. Personally, it's my best source for industry information. I find most articles and such by reading the stream.
- The photo thumbnails are large and available immediately.
- You can schedule posts, customize your columns and send a tweet to an email or share it easily. And you don't have to pay for it!
- It is hardly ever affected by downtime - the stream keeps moving even when I have a sluggish internet connection.
- They took away the ability to post to Facebook.
- You can't manage or connect accounts so that you can approve or submit posts to a shared business account prior to posting.
- Identifying good content in a timely manner.
- Witnessing events as soon as they occur
- An easy distraction if you're losing focus! (sometimes you have to learn when to shut it off)
- Hootsuite Free,twitter
Hootsuite - I've tried it 2 separate times but it was just overly complicated. At the time it also didn't have a better way to access it, like Tweetdeck Chrome app. Also compared to the regular Twitter site, it's much quicker and doesn't hide images. You can view about 7 columns from different accounts at once.