Twitter Dashboards For Lawyers

Which Twitter dashboards should lawyers be using?  As Twitter grows in popularity among the business community and among lawyers, the need for managing a Twitter account or multiple Twitter accounts becomes more pressing.  Some attorneys post to Twitter directly from the Web.  But if you are using Twitter strategically or spending a significant amount of time on Twitter, using a Twitter dashboard can be helpful.

A Twitter dashboard is a third-party application that allows users to keep track of various subsets of Twitter postings.  For example, a Twitter dashboard may have separate columns showing all of your Twitter stream, all responses to your tweets or references to your name, all direct messages, and all of your sent tweets.  In addition, you can set up columns to follow favorite users or to track certain keywords.

Some Twitter dashboards are desktop applications, while others are Web-based.  While some of the desktop applications are very good, my preference is to have a Web-based dashboard, so as to be able to access it from any computer.

My current favorite among Twitter dashboards is HootSuite because it is Web-based, it has a user-friendly interface, and most importantly, it allows me to post (through ping.fm) to multiple sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.  I also like TweetDeck as a desktop Twitter dashboard.

What is your Twitter dashboard of choice?