May I just suggest a different name (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON</a>)
I must admit I didn't sign up yet - just read the homepage - but something that would be super useful on such a system is throttling tweets.<p>I've seen more than a few instances where an employee screws up or goes 'rogue' and either goes off on a rant or posts the same thing over and over. It'd be great to only allow employees to post, say, once per hour or whatever, so any problems could be contained.
The invitation flow is very roundabout (even if you sheepishly admit it :-)), and the group account invitation doesn't seem to work at first. I tried to authorize a third-party account (inside of an anonymous tab) three times and the invitation didn't seem to be redeemed when I was redirected from Twitter to Echelon.<p>At first I thought something was wrong because, perhaps, you didn't set a "return to" URL to complete the invitation acceptance (which you should do if it's at all possible, to prevent your users from having to repeat an action). That was the behavior I expected since the invitation URL's log in prompt said "Sign in to accept".<p>What really happened is that the Twitter authorize call doesn't — in fact — trigger the acceptance of the invitation, it simply creates an Echelon account. I had to hunt down the "Notifications" section through the Menu while there was no sign where I had landed after the OAuth trip that there were any notifications waiting for me.<p>You should find a way to surface these notifications where you users are going to land after the Twitter authorize call, otherwise the experience is going to be as frustrating for them as it was for me — that is until they do the work your application should be doing for them: letting them know what actions they need to proceed with next in order to have a fully functioning account.<p>Now I have to say this is a cool app, I especially like the fact that individual user accounts are used and therefore everything can be logged so the whole team can be aware of the outgoing Twitter activity for each "group account".
Working on something similar. A free Twitter manager for individuals/teams that includes analytics and scheduling. A couple of screens <a href="http://i.imgur.com/0bCOizS.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/0bCOizS.png</a> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/rYfCKdN.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/rYfCKdN.png</a> Interesting to see how you've done things, good luck! :)
Most of our Tweets come from events where users are on iPhone or Android, so access to Echelon through a mobile app is essential.<p>HootSuite offers this already, and it's only a little bit more expensive than Echelon, so why should we switch? Genuine question as HootSuite has its own problems so I'm always looking for alternatives.
I'll stick with HootSuite because of the functionality. It allows me to manage my Google+ pages, Facebook pages, and Twitter all in one place.<p>If you had the ability to do that, I may be interested.