I was trying out as you can see in the last couple of posts, Twitter Guru Elite. But then I also started to use Tweetadder. The reason for looking at this other one is because of it being a stand alone application that has a Mac version as well as a Windows version. On top of that it has a one off payment instead of the per month cost of Twitter Guru Elite.
The plus side of Twitter Guru Elite is that it filters out some of the crud. If if has in its database twitter accounts that are plainly spamming robots then it will discount them. I don’t think Tweetadder does that, it is less discriminating. I did pay for 30 days with Twitter Guru Elite and after a few days I decided to stop the recurring payment in PayPal. This was a bad move because then Twitter Guru Elite stopped working and I had only been using it for about 4 or 5 days.
I am leaning towards the Tweetadder application because it has some good search features. I can search for the followed accounts of a twitter user as well as the accounts being followed. I can put in search terms using the operators such as OR which I can’t do in Twitter Guru Elite.
I still like Twitter Guru Elite for some of what it does and I think it is horses for courses. Some people will prefer to pay monthly and some will prefer to pay the one off cost of buying the software. Tweetadder cost me $79 to work with 5 accounts and you would need to pay for the middle version of Twitter Guru Elite to get similar functionality. I did run into the limits that were in the $19 a month version of Twitter Guru Elite. It allows you to add 100k records and if you do searches on accounts belonging to people with large numbers of followers it is easy to hit the limit.
So my recommendation would be to use Twitter Guru Elite if you want to work with up to 2 newish accounts you own. If you want to go for a more long term solution then Tweetadder is the one to get.
