
In the face of this political censure, his tweets only accelerated. Congress performed its own form of moderation: on July 16, 2019, the House of Representatives voted mostly along party lines to censure him for "racist comments" he had tweeted two days previously. įor most of Trump's presidency, his account on Twitter, where he often posted controversial and false statements, remained unmoderated in the name of "public interest". When Twitter permanently banned Trump from the platform in January 2021 during the final days of his term, his handle had over 88.9 million followers. The White House said the tweets should be considered official statements. Over nearly twelve years, Trump tweeted around 57,000 times, including about 8,000 times during the 2016 election campaign and over 25,000 times during his presidency.

Listening and monitoring tools provide companies, generally large ones, the ability to track what their customers are saying about them, and their competitors. VR provides a robust auto scheduling and monitoring dashboard, and more. Working from the other direction is Vertical Response which began basically as a corporate direct mail service in San Francisco ten years ago (think of Constant Contact)and is now providing a stout social media management dashboard, along with an extensive content services package. Hailing from Canadian Maritime Provinces, Social Oomph really provides a powerful set of features for those managing a number of accounts. This tool provides a wide array of functionality that, depending on the business your in, may be the best optional available.

Then there’s Social Oomph, which is true to its word in its tag line – “to boost your productivity”. However, Tennessee-based Tweetadder is currently working to resolve some legal issues with Twitter. It also has some good automated tweet posting and direct messaging capabilities. The program can automatically draft welcome and thank you messages to new followers. Tweetadder is another interesting tool, providing a number of auto functions, particularly its automatic friend adder function and follow. It’s a solid products, that will only improve under Twitter ownership. TweetDeck was the leader in tracking people and posts or #’s respectively) on Twitter and now provides multiple news feeds from Facebook and LinkedIn, searchers, auto tweet shortener, auto post scheduling and more. The dashboard is still the best in turn terms of color and graphics, and the look and feel (although you may need to turn the sound down).

However, there are a number of other competitors in the field. Hootsuite, with its range of functionality, easy of use, pricing and more appears to remain the industry standard, and this acquisition should only improve the Hootsuite brand. This plethora of outlets goes further back to the Ping.fm days. It also boast one of the widest breathes of social media outlets that it transmitted to. Seesmic had a slick, simple and easy to use interface on screen, and importantly, on mobile.

Seismac had positioned an attractive challenger over the past few months. While Hootsuite may be considered leader of the pack by some, there are a number of other competitors offering strong product alternatives. It was only a few months back that Seesmic fully subsumed Ping.fm into its operations, and indicates to me that businesses, including small business, will increasingly be incorporating these tools to remain competitive.
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Hootsuite’s purchase of Seesmic this past Sunday is a sure indication of the rapid maturation and consolidation of the social media management software market.
