Group Tweet

Just had a 20 min chat with @craft_ryan ...this is a pretty interesting product. Perfect for distributed teams. Upvote!

Hi Derek, Co-founder of GroupTweet here, thanks for the question! GroupTweet allows your authorized contributors to Tweet from the "group" account directly from their own personal Twitter accounts (using any Twitter app each of them prefers). They do this simply by sending a Direct Message, @mention or adding a Hashtag to their Tweet. Of course, if they prefer, they can also login to our dashboard and participate from there. This works great for getting non full time social media personnel engaged and providing content. There is no need for everyone to learn or login to a more cumbersome/overwhelming social media dashboard such as Hootsuite, etc. Half of the time, the GroupTweet contributors don't even realize they are using GroupTweet, as we try and make the process as streamlined and native as possible with as little forced or changed behavior required.

Hi Everyone, Thanks for submitting @UXandrew! I would love to answer any questions, receive feedback, etc. We are actively adding some exciting new features such as more robust engagement analytics so organizations and groups can understand who their most effective Tweeters are. GroupTweet is being used in a number of interesting ways as we are attempting to change the way people and organizations use Twitter by making it simple to create collaborative group Twitter accounts. No need to learn yet another social media dashboard or download another app. With GroupTweet your contributors can use any Twitter app each of them prefers. Our most active users range from news & media organizations, classrooms, sports teams, or enabling persistent private group discussion via Twitter. We are also looking for PHP/Node/Go freelancers if anyone has interest in getting involved!

@dshan Also, in regards to Hootsuite pricing its a pretty big difference considering if you need more than 10 contributors you will need Hootsuite's enterprise plan which is approx $1,500/mo. Many of our users such as @SkyNewsAust or @FoxNewsRadio have 30+ reporters/anchors added as authorized contributors to their accounts.

@UXAndrew - right now our most engaged user base seems to be news & media organizations, classrooms, and any organization desiring private group communication via Twitter. As @ReubenMetcalfe, mentioned pretty much any organization with distributed teams that wants to use Twitter in either a public or private manner. Ideally I would like to see more use cases involving youth sports teams, unique crowdsourced Twitter accounts, neighborhood/hyperlocal accounts, and international group SMS networks. Regarding group SMS networks, GroupTweet/Twitter is the easiest and cheapest way to setup reply-all SMS chains that work on dumbphones/smartphones/web (@ndi was using GroupTweet this way in Iraq several years ago). Regional news orgs like @Fox19 or @Fox4kc are loving GroupTweet. Its a win/win as the reporters like the added distribution for their Tweets and little changed behavior (they just add the company hashtag to the Tweet). Whereas the company likes the authentic content they can source from their employees while at the same time freeing up their web producers to perform more productive tasks than manually scouring timelines and retweeting content. For classrooms - we believe GroupTweet is the best way to use Twitter in the classroom. For younger students it is basically the only way, as GroupTweet can allow 3rd graders to login to their private GroupTweet dashboard with an email address. Then the teacher can enable moderation so that messages aren't sent out until explicitly approved. For older students, traditionally classrooms would use a hashtag, but that doesn't work that great for group discussion as many of the students will never setup hashtag searches or actively monitor the conversation. With GroupTweet, all the students and teachers can Tweet from a single Twitter account which makes the conversation that much easier and seamless to follow.

I suppose some pricing differences but why wouldn't one use Hootsuite or something similar?

@craft_ryan Who do you see as your ideal user base and what kind of user testing have you done?