Splitweet is great for those who have more than one Twitter account, and even better if one or more of those accounts is a business account. As mentioned in an earlier post here from Jonathan Bailey, with Splitweet you can monitor your accounts and your brand all in one place. Once you add all of your Twitter accounts you can then add the brands that you want to monitor. There seems to be no limit to the number of brands you can monitor so, this could really come in handy for monitoring competitors as well.
Under your profile settings there are a few options that you can customize. You can choose to have auto-updates, sound on auto-updates and links opened in a new window/tab. The dashboard is where all of the monitoring occurs. You can send a tweet to one or more of your Twitter accounts all at once. There’s even an integrated URL shortener.
Underneath you’ll find your timeline, replies, direct messages, favorites, and brand mentions all in their own tabs. For each tweet you have your basic Twitter features: reply, DM, retweet, and favorite. Since the timeline includes tweets from all of your accounts, there will be a colored square in the bottom right corner of each tweet letting you know from which account it’s from. If you’re following that person on more than one account then you’ll see a colored square for each account on that tweet. On the right side of the timeline there’s a column that shows a few of your brand’s mentions and a few of your replies.
Whenever there are new tweets, Splitweet will alert you with in a bar at the top of the page, as pictured below. If you have it set to auto-update, then it’s really just there to let you know that you have new tweets coming.
Since Splitweet claims that it is more for the corporate world, you would think that it would have more features than it does. There’s nothing that makes it stand out anymore than other similar tools like CoTweet or Hootsuite (one of my favorites). It would be nice to have a way to track link clicks or multiple user support to efficiently handle company accounts. They are still in beta though, so maybe these features and more are coming in the future.
What is your favorite tool for managing multiple Twitter accounts?
Wow!! nice twitter application site…. But i use HootSuite only!!
LOL Me too actually!! But I like to give new ones a try to see if they can change my mind…..
Sounds wonderful. I'll definitely give it a try. With personal and business accounts, it's difficult to keep track of everything so this is a godsend. I also liked the part about monitoring competitor's brands and my own.
I'm not too big on multiple accounts; I focus more on quality than I do on quantity. That being said, whatever works for you
Looks good. I will give it a try. Thanks for sharing
How is it different from TweetDeck, which I'm currently using? I find TweetDeck to only alert me of incoming tweets from one account, yet I have four active accounts.
I haven't used TweetDeck in awhile so I'm not too sure but I think TweetDeck offers a lot more than Splitweet.
Thanks for the brief overview of Splitweet. I will take a look. We currently use Co-Tweet to manage 5 (corporate) Twitter brands. We like cotweet because it allows you to assign tweets to a team member for follow up. Another nice feature is to be able to click on a tweet, and see the trail of the conversation. It's also very easy to see which of our twitter brands a user is following.
The main drawback we've found with Co-tweet is its instability. Last week we had a problem where not all the tweets were showing up in the Co-tweet interface… so we had to monitor them through another interface. It seems to be cleared up now, but now that I know there are alternatives, we may look into those.
Thanks again.