Managing a Twitter account can be a challenge but managing multiple Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts with a team can be outright mind boggling. Fortunately there are a number of great tools out there to do the trick. Which one is the best? For now the award goes to Hootsuite.

HootSuite, the professional Twitter client, lets users manage their entire Twitter experience from one easy-to-use interface. With HootSuite, users can manage multiple Twitter profiles with multiple editors on each, schedule tweets, track stats, RSS their content, and more. Vertical columns, drag-and-drop functionality and embeddable columns contribute to HootSuite’s intelligent, intuitive layout. Ping.fm integration allows users to update nearly any social site from HootSuite, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, GTalk, Tumblr and many others. Since launching in late 2008, HootSuite has become one of the world’s most popular Twitter clients.

A close second place is CoTweet. Recently acquired by ExactTarget, CoTweet is a business front-end for Twitter, enabling companies to engage in proactive marketing and response-oriented customer service activities.

If your social media work is more independent TweetDeck and Brizzly are also nice options. TweetDeck is a desktop app with iPhone and iPad versions. Brizzly is the simplest of all; but nicely designed and a pleasure to use.

Take a look at the features comparison.