HootSuite Social Media

[Malcolm]

I am getting some website traffic from HootSuite which is said to "Manage multiple social networks ", "a comprehensive tool that integrates stats, FaceBook, LinkedIn, and much more. " it has iPhone add ons, etc.

Does anybody on this forum use it ?

More info at: http://hootsuite.com/about

[Trev]

No, but I know someone who uses it to manage their company's "social meedja" presence. He's used it for a fair while and loves it.

[netutgamer]

We used it a little at work, but moved away to Tweetdeck as it ran a lot faster and stayed "on" when you close your browser.

There are three great tools for monitoring and cross posting in social media land:
TweetDeck
HootSuite
CoTweet

The advantage of the latter two for web analytics is that they are both web based you'll see them as referees to your web visits. It's good to be able to see referrals to sites that can be tracked from twitter/facebook though which you can't do from tweetdeck.

The majority of twitter access is widely believed to be from software clients like tweetdeck, echofon, twirl, and the 'official' twitter app both on the PC and 'smartphones' which will normally report as "direct" on your web analytics, not hugely helpful for working out where your audience is

[Malcolm]

Thanks for the replies

[Malcolm]

If anyone is interested, today HootSuite Releases HootSuite5 Social Media Dashboard with Themes, Geo-search and Google Analytics.

More: http://blog.hootsuite.com/hootsuite-html-5/