Did you notice anything new about CoTweet this morning?

Over the past weekend, CoTweet rolled out a new release. After logging in, you may have noticed the shiny, new user interface and icons.  These changes were made to enhance your CoTweet dashboard experience.  Also incorporated in this release is the Twitter Retweet integration. CoTweet is pleased to now be offering both the Twitter native retweet functionality as well as Quotes. In addition to Retweet, Quotes allows CoTweet users the ability to retweet in the traditional form of quoting another user along with the capacity to annotate the tweet by including your own comments.

CoTweet has partnered with Klout and now shares the Klout Score of the Twitter profile you are viewing.  Klout Score measures the Twitter profile’s influence across the social web by calculating their True Reach, Amplification Ability and Network Score.  Another exciting new feature is saved inline searches. As CoTweet is focused on the Team Platform Experience, we’ve implemented the ability that now allows you to save searches to share with your fellow team members.

Please refer to the CoTweet Support page for further explanation of the release’s useful new features.  Take the new UI for a spin and let us know what you think!

3 Comments; Filed under Product Updates, features by Susan Hobbs

The Wall Street Journal has just broken the news of our first paid service, the Enterprise Innovators Program.

The world’s leading brands have embraced the power of the real-time web, and CoTweet is playing a key role in their success. Today we’re announcing that companies including Coca-Cola, Ford, McDonald’s, Microsoft, SunTrust, Whole Foods and others have enrolled in the CoTweet Enterprise Innovators Program, a new program that includes exclusive Enterprise Edition product features and services that help companies manage their brands on Twitter. The full press release is here.

For more information and to request an invitation to join, see the Enterprise Innovators Program page. The CoTweet public beta remains free for consumers and enterprises.

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0 Comments; Filed under Media Coverage, Product Updates by Kyle Sollenberger

Today we’ve released a new optional theme for CoTweet based off of feedback we’ve gotten from Guy Kawasaki, who joined our advisory team in April.

Guy’s usage of Twitter depends on being able to very quickly navigate a lot of information. In response to his feedback, we created a custom theme for him two months ago, and we’re releasing it to the public today. It provides much higher information density and takes advantage of keyboard navigation while retaining the rich look and feel of the CoTweet user experience.

To enable the theme, go to Settings -> General Settings and select “Guy Kawasaki Edition” from the Theme selector.

4 Comments; Filed under Product Updates by Aaron Gotwalt

A review of CoTweet was posted on microblogging news site, Microblink, today. It left us gushing. You can read the full review here.

Some excerpts:

“CoTweet may just be the ultimate corporate Twitter tool.”

“Aaron Gotwalt (@gotwalt), Jesse Engle (@jesseengle) and Kyle Sollenberger (@iamkyle) think they’ve built the tool that could finally push businesses over the tipping point and into Twitter full-bore. From the looks of their new app, CoTweet, I’d say they’re well on their way.”

“What business users will probably be most excited about is the look and feel of this app. Everything is very polished, just like any other piece of software they’re used to using.”

“If you’ve ever watched Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero video and wish you could do the same with Twitter, CoTweet answers again.”

“While previous corporate Twitter case studies were reserved for innovative companies like Whole Foods and Zappos, the team at CoTweet has built a tool that truly gives any company the ability to use the microblogging service effectively. Head over to their site and get signed up for the private beta for a chance to try it out.”

“Even after CoTweet rolls out a pro/paid plan (and I’m sure they will), companies will still be lining up with cash in hand to utilize this tool. You owe it to your company to give it a whirl.”

0 Comments; Filed under CoTags, Demos, Development, Media Coverage, Product Reviews, Product Updates, Your Brand on Twitter by Jesse Engle

New updates, new media coverage, new users – this week’s been a continuous stream of awesome developments. We’ll be posting here at the new CoTweet blog a lot more frequently, so grab the RSS and enjoy the ride.

Thanks so much to everyone who’s now following us as the result of some great coverage earlier this week at by David Petherick on TheNextWeb. The post is entitled “CoTweet: The Corporate Twitter Just Landed.” David took the time to really understand us and wrote a fabulous piece – thanks David! As a result, we’ve been inundated with beta requests over the last two days, which is the best problem one can hope to ever have doing this sort of thing. We’re letting a few new users a day as we work feverishly to complete a more scalable updates engine that’ll be in place very shortly. Thanks for your patience, and trust me – we can’t wait to be able to open the floodgates.

So, tonight’s update. One of the innovative features CoTweet offers is called OnDuty, a system that keeps your team informed by sending email updates when new @replies and direct messages come in. Unless you’re glued to your Twitter client all day, it’s easy to lose track of messages and the value that immediate responsiveness brings to your brand.

CoTweet’s new Channel Menu

OnDuty keeps you and your team in the loop. It has helped me keep an eye on @cotweet developments and allowed me to jump in on things I wanted to address, all while being busier than ever working on this project. With tonight’s update, we’ve introduced the ability to change not only your own OnDuty status, but also that of your team members as part of a new channel menu. Users are able to decide what happens when they’re set to “on” via their settings. Right now, we’re offering email but are looking to expand to other notification tools soon.

We’re pushing hard to make the ways that you can interact with data in CoTweet as consistent as possible. We’ve added DM and @reply buttons from the sidebar, allowing you to send messages without jumping through hoops.

We’ve also made some huge performance optimizations on the main CoTweet view. Thanks to some database indexing magic, we’ve been able to cut some query times by as much as 70%. A significant part of this limited beta time is using the stress of controlled growth to find our slow spots and adjust things accordingly.

A special thanks to beta testers for your fantastic feedback – we’re here to build the tool that works for you and grateful for the time you’ve already invested into this product. We can’t wait to see what happens next.

0 Comments; Filed under Development, Product Updates by Aaron Gotwalt