Mar
01
2010

Ask Sazbean: Do Twitter Giveaways Work?

Kevin from KidsDesk.net asks: Do Twitter Giveaways work?  While it’s hard to get actual numbers from Twitter giveaways and contests, they do seem to work for most of the businesses that use them.  Here are some guidelines and tips to avoid breaking Twitter’s terms of service and to make the giveaway work…
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Feb
04
2010

Review: TweetDeck vs. HootSuite

Awhile back we had a knock-out-drag-out between HootSuite and SocialOomph, with HootSuite winning handily.  Now, we’re pairing up HootSuite with TweetDeck.  Until recently I was an avid user of TweetDeck for keeping track of my Twitterverse.  I switched to HootSuite because TweetDeck seemed to be dropping a lot of messages out of my groups and mentions (not cool).  Plus, I’m using HootSuite as my Tweet scheduler now (having won over SocialOomph), so it was easier to be in one place all day. But, let’s see how these two stack up:

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Dec
10
2009

Review: HootSuite vs. SocialOomph

Both HootSuite and SocialOomph provide features for managing Twitter and Facebook (and other accounts).  The services are very similar, and I’ve been a fairly loyal user of SocialOomph for several months now.  But, recently downtime at SocialOomph led me to re-explore HootSuite and I’ve been using it as my primary tool for the past week or so.  There are still some things that I prefer about SocialOomph, but overall I’m fairly happy with HootSuite (at least for now).  Let’s take a look at the details:

hootsuitevssocialoomph

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