Twitter is an awesome social networking tool, if you know how to use it (check out the Complete Guide to Twitter PDF Guide)!  One of the first issues I ran into in my use of Twitter is how to follow so many people and actually keep up with what they are saying.  Come to find out, there are many tools out there to help sort out the noise and organize your followers and those you follow.

If you have no idea of what I’m talking about, check these posts out: 9 Ways To Use Twitter – No Website Necessary, 4 Tools for More Productive Twittering, 3 More Cool Twitter Tools To Do Your Tweeting With, 4 Good Alternatives to TweetDeck & Seesmic Desktop (Twitter Desktop Clients).

One such web-based tool is HootSuite. Yes, it’s web-based, meaning you can sign in almost anywhere there’s an Internet connection, unlike TweetDeck which is a desktop program. These days, there are many different web-based Twitter clients being made so I want to go through what perhaps sets HootSuite apart from the rest.

The first thing that makes HootSuite worth trying out is how easy it is to perso