I thought you’d like the question and answer I received today from a friend and DishyMix listener about Twitter:

QUESTION: New client just asked me for my fave Twitter Aggregator.  I have used:

Tweetmeme
TwitterSearch

But that’s it. Have to admit I don’t use them often.

@LeeOdden did a great post:
http://www.toprankblog.com/2009/02/12-twitter-stream-aggregators/ but wanted to know what you use and like.

ANSWER: TweetMeme is the most popular for looking at what the trending terms are on Twitter.
I use a custom Twitter search on my Firefox browser Toolbar that looks like this (which I learned from Dave Taylor) to see what’s being said about my specific keywords with a click of the toolbar.

“dishymix” OR “susan bratton” OR “@susanbratton” OR “personal life media” OR “talk show tips”  on my toolbar.

For how to do this, listen here as Dave Taylor explains how to set up a customized Twitter search:
http://blogs.personallifemedia.com/dishymix/dave-taylor-and-susan-bratton-community-powered-podcast-sxsw/2009/03/24/

I use SocialOomph for scheduling Tweets to go out over time into four of my Twitter accounts. It also has a Cockpit where you can see all your activity for all your accounts. It’s excellent.  I also use TweetDeck, but keep it on a separate Mac on my desk because it’s a system resource hog. It’s an actual Adobe Air application, not a web ap, so it takes a lot of resources to keep it running on your main computer in my experience.
Here’s my post on how to use SocialOomph.  (note, it used to be called TweetLater, a far superior name in my esteem)

http://blogs.personallifemedia.com/dishymix/be-everywhere-my-secret-stash-of-social-media-meta-tools-for-easily-syndicating-your-work-tg2009/2009/07/15/

Net net – SocialOomph has most or all of the features that any one of these single feature resources offers and would be my recommendation.

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