With social networking sites growing in popularity, but also in the way companies have begun to utilise it to talk to their customers, it's becoming more and more important to get a proper tool to connect to the social network of your choice.

To get the most out of one of these, Twitter, relies on getting the information you want to share out there as quickly as possible, while also having the information shared by those you follow available to you with ease.

In the last few years since Twitter's release, a number of software packages have sprung up that does this, but none of them really works as well as the website HootSuite.

At the centre of HootSuite's appeal is its clean, simple interface ? it's just easier to do what you want, when you want it (you can schedule your tweets to go out at a certain time, which is brilliant when you want to target an announcement to an audience that's situated in a different time zone).

You can also access other social networking sites through it, like Facebook, LinkedIn, Ping.fm and even WordPress.

Check it out at www.hootsuite.com.