I have been enjoying using CoTweet for the past couple weeks after pleading for beta access.  As I am the point guy on Gist’s beta program, I try to grant quick access to those who make the effort to reach out or make some noise about the product so was happy that after a couple of tweets I got access from the CoTweet guys.

My Twitter needs focus on the act & engage dimension of the aforementioned listening framework (I will post more broadly on that shortly).

I needed to main things from CoTweet:

1. Manage multiple Twitter accounts through a single interface
2. Some marketing capabilities in the product (list management, analytics, etc.)

CoTweet delivers on both allowing me to set up a couple accounts – @Gist & @RobertatGist in my case and use them together. 

One really cool feature of CoTweet is the ability to write a tweet and schedule it for sending at a later date.  Really helpful if you are promoting something or want to share the same info multiple times over a couple days.

I also like the fact that you can see analytics on the links you share (and can shorten through the interface).  How many clicks, where they clicked from, etc.  Cotweet also allows for searching and capturing query results as an RSS feed – which I can add to my Google Reader for easy review and action.

I look forward to continuing to use the product and to seeing what comes next.  I’m also a fan of Tweetdeck and their most recent release allows for both multiple account management and the ability to post to multiple accounts simultaneously.  It is a slick AIR application vs. Cotweet’s web-based one so we’ll have to see how the cloud vs. the client battle shapes up.