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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
After trying a limetless amount of twitter clients I was struggling to find a balance of Tweetdeck’s multi column view, Hootsuite’s multi account features with Bit.ly as the url shortner of choice ( Although very tempted by Shawn Inman’s Less.n though as a bit more of a personal shorttner )
I eventually found Cotweet. Now Cotweet is being touted as “How business does twitter” but having used Cotweet for a couple weeks being a single user, I would recommend it to anyone over some of the competitors. Although it has advanced features for business such as its on duty notifications and assigning specific tweets to a coworker which being a single user i won’t ever use, It also has some great features for non business users.

The first thing that should shine through would be Cotweet’s polished application like interface, which is a real treat to start seeing more of for RIA’s.

Other great features of Cotweet is its built in click tracking from your bit.ly, archiving of messages and scheduling of tweets which provides a great

If all of that wasn’t enough it includes a great column based keyword tracking view a built in way to view threaded conversation with profile information.

Overall I couldn’t recommend this enough over many alternatives out there, I can imagine that perhaps one of the things holding you back is that its browser based, well if you’re on a mac Fluid will sort that out and I haven’t looked in to a SSB alternative for PC but I’m sure there must be one or two out there somewhere.