Hoo! Hoo! @HootSuite upgrades are awesome!

Carol and I attended the Movember Tweetup last week and got to meet a few of the fine folks from Invoke, the company that is behind HootSuite. I have been using HootSuite off and on for a while and more recently with meeting and chatting with some of the people behind it. Today HootSuite became, hands down, my app of choice for following and updating my social networks.

I noticed last night that the site was down for service upgrades and had expected something was up after some cryptic discussions with Invoke employees at the party and some banter on twitter last Friday between myself and Dario Meli, a partner at Invoke, I knew good things were afoot. I just didn’t know what. I had my suspicions, and was right on the money with a couple, but there was even more.

After a day of running around and not being near my computer, I came home and logged into HootSuite to see what I would find and was more than pleasantly surprised.

This graphic stolen from the HootSuite site and edited by me shows a list of the upgrades they made.

I figured facebook and twitter lists would be on the upgrade list, which is fantastic in and of itself, but the inclusion of the Ping.fm and LinkedIn services as well excited me a lot. Here’s a part of why:

The ability to schedule Ping.fm updates is particularly noteworthy since through it you can update most popular social networks (such as MySpace, LiveJournal, etc.) Scheduling status updates now has near universal applicability. [HootSuite blog]

What sealed the deal, making HootSuite the social media app for me was the promise of an iPhone app. I have had trouble finding the perfect social app for my phone. But if the goodness I have come to expect from the folks at Invoke continues to be consistent, I suspect the iPhone app will be a thing of beauty as well. Count me in for one download — sight unseen.

Hoo! Hoo!