Twitter Productivity via Hootsuite

Twitter can be a useful tool in promoting your blog and making connections with other bloggers. It can also be a major time sucker. How can you make it productive for you?

I use a FREE Twitter Client, called HootSuite to manage my twitter time. If you have multiple twitter accounts, this is a must for you. Instead of logging into each account to tweet or retweet, you simply log into HootSuite to access all your accounts from one dashboard.

Though, there are many Twitter Clients to choose from, I’ve found HootSuite works the best for me. One of my favorite features is the ability to schedule tweets. This is probably the best function of HootSuite.

In the past, I would log in and see so many tweets from my friends I wanted to retweet. It feels spammy to retweet too many in a row. Instead, I can now simply schedule those retweets for an hour interval so each tweet gets the attention it deserves. There are so many uses for scheduling tweets such as reminding your followers of giveaways, special events, and more!

Other functions of HootSuite include:

• Stats when you use owl.y for url shortening
• Hootlet: Allows you to quickly “hoot” sites you are browsing on the web.
• Group Creation
• Multiple users if your twitter account has additional contributors.
• View user information from dashboard

Hootsuite recently released a iPhone application for download for $1.99. I’ve been using it for a week or so now and really feel it is valuable and as functional as the web dashboard.

Briana Carter writes about bargains and other money saving tips at BargainBriana.com as well as recently launching The Frugal Map, which connects readers to bloggers. She is an avid Twitter user @Bargainbriana and @FrugalMap.