I love Hootsuite. I’m not shy about saying it and I make now secret of the fact that it is my Twitter app of choice. However,after much bashing of the popular, Tweetdeck I realized that I hadn’t used Tweetdeck in some 5-6 months and perhaps…perhaps, they’d made some improvements. Well, they did and while I am in no way advocating the use of Tweetdeck over Hootsuite, each application is one or two steps away from the perfect Twitter app.
Hootsuite is virtually perfect but there is a giant gaping hole in their offering…the iPhone. I have a hypothesis that more people on Twitter use iphones than don’t. I even tried to test it by encouraging the use of #iphoneuser and #noniphoneuser…it didn’t go anywhere. Hootsuite on the iphone is non existent, leaving the iphone users to fend for themselves with other applications. For a while Tweetie was my app of choice and to some extent I still like it best for posting tweets but reading Tweets on my iphone had become a task I rarely did. I remembered that Tweetdeck made an iphone app that I was initially unimpressed with. However they have upgraded it and the performance is much better and your groupings sync with the desktop application. So now I’m using Tweetdeck to mimic the groups I set up in hootsuite so that I can read tweets on my iphone. Which leads me to the crux of this blog post.
What does each app need to WIN?!
Hootsuite needs an iphone app that syncs your groups from your web client.
Tweetdeck needs a webapp and a URL shortener with built-in tracking/stats. It could even use bit.ly or tr.im if it could have built-in statistics. So if Hootsuite had Tweetdeck’s iPhone app and Tweetdeck had Hootsuite’s online interface we’d have a wonderful Twitter solution for desktops, the web and mobile (iphone) users. So if either company gets to reading this post…you now know what to do.
Any thoughts?