HootSuite for Twitter
Description of App
Compose and Converse on the Go. HootSuite for iOS is the perfect social media tool for Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare.
Join the conversation from anywhere with HootSuite for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Simple, elegant and powerful, HootSuite allows you to send and schedule Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare updates, track click stats, and set up tracking columns to monitor keywords, #hashtags, and lists.
HootSuite is international-ready with translation to/from over 50 languages, plus the the interface is localized in 6 languages (Japanese, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Arabic, and Korean) with more to come.
HootSuite iOS is completely FREE and is tightly integrated with the web version, allowing quick account importing and syncing with a helpful wizard.
Get your fingers on this wise Owl to:
Spread Messages
- Manage your Twitter accounts
- Update Facebook Profile and Fan Pages
- Checkin to Foursquare Locations and share your position
- Comment on posts in Facebook News Feed
- Translate messages for Facebook and Twitter
- Save a draft message to finish later
- Schedule updates for future sending
- Forward messages via email
- Reply to all recipients at once
Monitor Conversations
- Translate Twitter messages from 50+ languages
- See conversation history for context
- Create custom views for keyword monitoring
- Set-up real-time Twitter searches
- Browse and understand trending topics
Track Results
- Examine message click statistics by date (Full only)
- See which countries are clicking on your links
- Shorten URLs with Ow.ly for stats
- Track user ratings for links (via Ow.ly and Ht.ly)
Make Friends
- Add followers to Twitter lists and accounts
- Learn about your followers with profile view
- View who you follow and how is following you
- Create and edit Twitter lists
- Subscribe to lists
- Find where your friends are on Foursquare
Increase Happiness
- Understand interactions with 6 language localizations
- Share and store photos and files including stats
- Keep your place in the stream when exiting app
- Save links to read later via Instapaper
- Open pages with Safari for easy reading
- Compose Twitter messages in landscape mode
- Add geo-location coordinates to messages
- "Bump™" to quickly add followers
Accessibility Comments
Although much of this app is accessible with VoiceOver, it currently has one major problem that is enough to make the app unusable.
When browsing your streams, VoiceOver does not read any of the content. Instead, you get a click from VoiceOver to indicate that focus is on a page element, but that is all. Double-tapping will actually open the content item in its own page, and this is accessible with VoiceOver.
From what I saw of the rest of the app, there was enough to make me hope that the developers can fix the current problem with the streams.