Item: TweetDeck
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TweetDeck

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use TweetDeck to monitor our own Twitter accounts as well as to track Twitter lists and newsfeed. I use it personally but it is not used across the organisaiton.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Convenient column view allows you to separate mentions, messages, feeds and lists in one screen
Allows you to add multiple accounts which you can publish to, retweet and favourtie content
Easy to set up and get going

Cons

Can't open Twitter accounts profiles in a new tab/window easily
No link shortener
No statistics

Return on Investment

Convenience for monitoring Twitter lists and feeds
Single view of multiple accounts
Easy to set up and get started

TweetDeck is comparative with the options available in Hootsuite Free edition, although the fact that Hootsuite allows you to monitor and publish on other platforms is more convenient. I created a TweetDeck account when I began using Meltwater Buzz as I missed the column views from Hootsuite so I really only use it for monitoring the lists and users I follow.

Likelihood to Renew

I'm about to move onto a new paid platform (which does have colum views) so may not continue using TweetDeck if the new platform provides what I need.

Likelihood to Recommend

TweetDeck is great if you want a single view of many accounts or sections of one account. You can scroll across the page easily to reveal extra columns and quickly retweet or favourite posts by others. I don't personally use this to post or schedule Tweets, but I can see it would be a useful free tool to do this also.

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A nifty free publishing and monitoring tool for Twittertool

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