HootSuite Twitter client launches premium accounts. Are they worth it?
It was free to everyone for a long time. Now the popular “social media dashboard” HootSuite is offering users different levels of service and features — for a price.
These new HootSuite plans range from $5 to $100 a month, and will provide Twitter “power users” with “an ad-free UI, enhanced stats, and multiple RSS feeds, social networks and team members.”
“The company’s Enterprise Package (Star Trek reference intended) weighs in at around $1,500 per month or $2,000 per month if you want to use a vanity URL shortener.
“This service is as deluxe as its pricetag…”
Other new and/or improved HootSuite features will include scheduled updates, plus Facebook, RSS and Ping.fm integration.
All I can say is:
Now that HootSuite is charging users money — sometimes lots of it — I’m so glad I picked MarketMeTweet as my premium Twitter client for power users.
MarketMeTweet already has lots of those “new” features.
Its user interface (UI) has always been ad-free, for example, and Facebook, scheduled updates, Ping.fm and much more are included, too.
Today, Alan, the lead developer at MarketMeTweet, announced that they will soon be launching those highly coveted vanity custom URL shorteners:
“Branded URL Shorteners. This is something that we love the idea of, i.e having a url shortner just as a complete example: mmt.com/sdfdsf
“Or for say someone like cocoa-cola: coke.com/dgdfgfd
“This is something we’ve been looking at and we have some pretty good ideas. How cool will it be when you can brand your tweets and your shortened URLs with your own domain.
“Not only that, we plan on making this service completely free to MarketMeTweet users too.”
And I can assure you that, unlike HootSuite, MarketMeTweet does NOT cost you “$1500 to $2000 a month”, either!
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