Posts Tagged ‘hootsuite’

At Social Times, one of our favorite tools of choice for managing our social media presence is HootSuite.  The service is an essential time-saver with an attractive user interface and an even more attractive owl icon.  What can be said about that owl that hasn’t been said before — big brown eyes, beautiful plumage and [...]

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That makes five acquisitions for HootSuite. The company has already acquired What the Trend, Twapper Keeper, TwitterBar and Swift App.

Even though the rest of the web has moved on from Myspace the site is still the go-to network for a great many musicians, maintaining relevancy with bands that use it to easily track fans, set up (and publicize shows) and host music, photos and news in a single place. The problem is that, as [...]

The platform substantially increased Facebook functionality by adding posting and monitoring for Events and Groups, plus improved Pages and Profiles with photo uploading, geo-tools and search of all public updates within a HootSuite stream.

Check out these 11 insights on companies that aren’t even public yet. The slideshow brings the numbers to life!

Six things you should do, and three you really shouldn’t care about. Read this, and then do it.

Around this time last week, Social Times got heads up from HootSuite about a rolling release of some enhancements to its platform. Who could have predicted that the next day would bring a web outage that would take down HootSuite and a number of other prominent companies in the social media space?

The features are rolling out. How HootSuite managed its outage during and after the event is a crisis management lesson from which all companies can learn.

Keeping social media management efficient and fun often means keeping an eye out for ways to save clicks and keystrokes.

HootSuite today announced its acquisition of TwitterBar. Rebranded HootBar and available for immediate download, this add-on for the Firefox 4 browser allows users to post to social profiles directly from the web address bar.

Is this a joke? Well, it’s quite possibly the funniest game launch ever. Announcing it through splash screens in the application and “mis-sent” emails to its board and investors, HootSuite generated plenty of interest in its new viral game. Is this really a strategic shift for the company? Probably not. But, it is a clever way to generate some action in an increasingly competitive space.

Twitter has unveiled its next step in a three-part plan to roll out the promoted tweets it announced in April – inserting them into user’s timelines. Twitter will be integrating promoted tweets into certain users’ timelines on HootSuite, testing the feature before presumably rolling it out on other platforms.