CoTweet Opens Public Beta: Now You Can Tweet Like Starbucks
The majority of companies on Twitter rely on a variety of tools to allow multiple employees to post to one unified Twitter account. CoTweet is one of the most popular of these tools and it is currently being used by major brands like Starbucks, CocaCola, and Whole Foods, as well as by celebrities like Britney Spears. Starting today, anybody can tap into the power of CoTweet, as the company just announced a free public beta program. In addition, CoTweet also announced that it has raised $1.1 million in VC funding.
Features
CoTweet has a number of nice features that make it a great choice for any business that wants to get serious about using Twitter, and the fact that it is now available for free also gives small businesses and cash-strapped startups a chance to play the game at the same level as the big brands.
As you would expect from a tool like this, you can easily invite multiple users (up to 6 in the free version), hand out assignments to members of your team (which can be accompanied by notes), and create persistent searches (for your brand name, for example). Other interesting features in CoTweet include the ability to schedule tweets, see statistics from bit.ly in a sidebar right on the site, and set up email alerts for replies and direct messages.
Thanks to keyboard shortcuts and a no-nonsense design, using CoTweet is extremely easy, and even though it is meant to be used by multiple users, it's actually also a great Web-based Twitter client in its own right.
Free For Now
For the time being, CoTweet will remain a free product, though it is not clear how long this public beta will last and what CoTweet will charge afterwards.
If you are looking for a tool that will allow your team to easily post messages to one Twitter account, then CoTweet is definitely worth a closer look.
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This is an exciting opportunity to reach out to your audience.
This is fabulous news for CoTweet, and the industry as a whole. Congratulations to the CoTweet team! As many businesses are struggling to figure out how to incorporate and manage social media within their organizations. This news validates all the work we are doing to develop the tools to help make it easier for social media teams to monitor and manage online conversations.
This is great. I know just how I am going to use this for my sites. Hope it stays free for a while.
This is great.
The news confirmed that the work of all the development tools we are doing to help it easier for the community media group chat-line monitoring and management
This is really a great tool for those who want to use Twitter for business purposes.
I agree with the above comments, this is a great tool for business purposes.
How many tweets can I schedule? 100?
And for how long? Can i reschedule a tweet for 2010, a year ahead?
Thanks.
I saw an article today that hopes these types of devices or applications may be the saviour for the newspapers. I still have my doubts because you don't need a kindle to get your news, it's still free online.