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A few weeks ago Dennis Edell wrote a post<\/a> asking for people to review both Twitter and Hootsuite. Originally this post was going to be posted over at his site Dennis Edell | Personal Coaching<\/a>, due to issues, I decided to post it here.<\/p>\n

I have been using Twitter<\/a> a little over a year and started using it at an addictive rate sometime last summer. As I grew more knowledgeable about Twitter and various tools that were available; naturally I was attracted to both Hootsuite<\/a> and TweetDeck<\/a>. I tried out TweetDeck and found it worked well at that time and continued to use it for a little over a month.<\/p>\n

Then I started spending more time away from my personal computers and using public systems where I wasn\u2019t allowed to install anything. When this started occurring more often, I started using different web clients to use Twitter. But none of them did what I wanted or I found them to be to annoying for my tastes. Then I came across Hootsuite.<\/p>\n

Almost instantly I was sold. The Twitter client does everything and even has it own built in URL shortener and click analytics! So for a few months I started using Hootsuite at work and at school. When I was at home, I was using TweetDeck. This setup worked great for while…<\/p>\n

Then TweetDeck made some changes and it was almost impossible to use TweetDeck on my laptop and run several browsers, Photoshop, Dreamweaver at the same time. This became a big issue and I decided to not use TweetDeck unless I am on my main Desktop. I found it was just as easy to keep an extra tab open on Chrome or Firefox and click on the Hootsuite when I needed to make an update. Once I figured this out, it saved on resources and I began to use Twitter more often.<\/p>\n

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TweetDeck Features<\/h2>\n

TweetDeck is one of the most popular Twitter Clients available and has a large diehard following. There are TweekDeck users that will never switch and refuse to try other clients out there. For those of you reading this that are die hard fans, keep on reading, you may find a reason to switch over, or you may find another reason to keep on using TweetDeck. After all, there is no rule to using Twitter and it is up to the user to decide what they prefer to do when they monitor Twitter.<\/p>\n

What I like about TweetDeck is its dark theme, one large window and all you have to do is scroll back and forth to see all of your columns. You can even resize the columns to make them smaller so can see more of the columns. If you do not use a lot of columns, you can see most of the important ones without scrolling. If you have large widescreens like I do, you can see even more.<\/p>\n

I also like that there is an option to setup a column that is for new followers. I use this feature to read what my new followers are saying. If they seem like someone I can find useful information from or they retweet my links and I can follow them back.<\/p>\n

Using TweetDeck can make our daily Twitter experience more productive. When you can see more you can engage more.<\/p>\n

Things you can do with TweetDeck<\/h2>\n