Do you prefer TweetDeck or Seesmic to manage your social media interactions?

I manage 6 accounts, and monitor 4 brand names with TweetDeck, in my opinion it is the best twitter client available. I can also post to Facebook and Myspace with it, so it really saves time.

Hootsuite is a excellent social media platform.

Use it to schedule:
- Tweets
- Facebook postings (on your personal profile and any pages you are an admin of)
- LinkedIn status updates

Track when scheduled postings are going out.

Edit or delete schedule postings.

Invite coworkers to be part of your platform.

Log into Hootsuite and you don't have to log on to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc... It is one stop shop.

I've used both and they both have merits, though personally I prefer Hootsuite. But if given the choice I would choose Seesmic.

While Tweetdeck is great and has a terrific customizable interface, it is a vast memory hog that eats up CPU cycles and can literally slow down a Quadcore machine it is so hungry. Seesmic just has bugs that can be a bit annoying though not all that damaging. For example, at times it will just show you the DMs you sent, not the ones that you received. But it is not as memory-intensive which given that twitter is often ubiquitous, makes a big difference.

Hootsuite is the most effective and closest to collaborative of the three. It has strong team collaboration features, can bring in streams from (and post messages to) Facebook and LinkedIn and is constantly improving. Search is easy and works pretty well.

All three of them have one flaw which is they miss posts. They all blame the Twitter API but actually each of them should blame themselves for the way they access the API.

In any case, in this order - Hootsuite (by far), Seesmic, Tweetdeck.

I would definitely second the Hootsuite recommendation. Above and beyond the two features listed above, it also does the best job in terms of allowing you to manage multiple Twitter profiles.

If however your decision is solely between the two mentioned, I prefer TweetDeck.

I'm sure there are better out there, but I've married myself to Tweetdeck using both their web and iPhone apps.

Unlike Paul I have no issues with CPU (peaks at 3%), it does have a heavy memory footprint of 106MB (but still this is nothing compared to some of the other apps i have running). Tweetdeck meets my current needs - except when it hits the twitter API calls limit. One thing I would like is some kind of a queue system that learns from my interests (from the links i click on and the people i follow maybe), so that when i'm offline i can check back to things of interest to me.

I've started playing around with Seesmic Desktop 2, and I really like their plugin architecture. If someone would develop a RSS feed plugin, I'd be very happy to use it as my main twitter client.

I like the integration of Seesmic to Evernote so I'm going to try Seesmic on my iPhone. I'm still trying Tweetdeck and Hootsuite too.

I prefer Tweedeck. Well, it was the first application to try and I prefer black over white color so it's matter of preference here.

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I like seesmic. and I have discovered a new tool called http://hy.ly that lets you manage , tag and save tweets and also create a customer/ client support work flow.

Hootsuite is the winner over both of these applications for business due to two features:

1. Scheduling Tweets
2. Workflow - Tweets can be assigned to others users in the business

I use TweetDeck and Seesmic. TweetDeck for its features crossing social networks and Seesmic, recently, because of the series of videos Loic Le Meur on social media. Le Meur is most knowing and the short videos indicate Seesmic's understanding of the importance of content to social media strategy. Practicing what one preaches.

I started with Tweetdeck and still use it occasionally, but I agree with Paul - I am a Hootsuite fan. I manage multiple accounts tied with Facebook and LinkedIn; am able to schedule posts; and can run it as a tab in my browser window. I am amazed that the two programs don't display the same information, I wonder what else am I missing? I cannot offer an opinion on Seesmic, haven't used it...perhaps that speaks for itself.