Recently I have been playing around with HootSuite, not to be confused with BrightKite the location based tool, and if you follow 305HipHop on Twitter you have probably noticed a number of links to articles we’ve been dropping through the day on a regular basis?  We honestly don’t have the time anymore to compile a post of links and with the increased work load and staff on this blog there is honestly better content being published now than ever before.

So How HootSuite Fits In

HootSuite is a new service that does a few things of value from a business or a college standpoint.

• Clickthroughs Analytics - If your trying to prove value of twitter to a business being able to track and show that it is actually sending traffic to your site is a pretty powerful tool.
• Post Tweets from Multiple Accounts - through the interface you can login to multiple accounts and post tweets. This is important for people who are trying to manage a personal account and an account for your school or business because it’s one handy interface.
• Queue Tweets - yes that’s right you can setup a tweet to post at a certain time in the future. This is extremely valuable if you have an upcoming event or special and want to announce it at a certain time. Queue it up and you don’t have to try and remember it.
• Google Adsense – you can add your Google Adsense code to actually get paid from your Tweets. A 234 x 60 ad size on the top right corner of the frame displays your add 50% of the time. Finally you can really monetize your Twitter account. 

So there you go three pretty simple, but rather powerful features especially from a business sense.  It will be interesting to see how this service continues going forward and when they come out of beta and potentially start charging.  You might want to go grab your account today.

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