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• Mike Behnke commented  ·  May 16, 2013 9:12 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I will be looking for a different app if this feature does not get implemented. As nice as the other features are, they do absolutely no good if I have to specifically go to the tab once per hour to "wake it up".

• Erwin Bik commented  ·  April 10, 2013 11:02 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  We use Hootsuite for monitoring our twitter account, it runs on a large screen in our office for anyone to see, but the sleeping owl spoils it. It has been under review now for a year and a half. There should be an answer/opinion formed now by hootsuite!

• Anonymous commented  ·  April 2, 2013 3:22 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Yes please
  Get rid of it
  We have a large screen on view to clients so we have to keep the owl awake :(

• Pigeon commented  ·  January 3, 2013 6:03 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Over a year since that reply and still it's just the same :(

  I've only been using Hootsuite for a few days, because Seesmic's login is currently broken so I can't use that, and already this thing is driving me to google for solutions as to how to turn it off.

  The twitter account I'm using Hootsuite with I use as a news feed, not for conversation; I use it to monitor news from other people, and to post one or two items a day myself. I often do not look at it for several hours at a stretch - for example when I go to bed.

  When I return I want to be able to scroll back through my feed and scan for useful news that has been posted during my absence. With Seesmic this was straightforward since it had remained active the whole time and had already loaded the timeline. With Hootsuite there is a huge gap where it shut down. To fill this gap requires making it fetch several hours' worth of tweets - and it won't even fetch them all in one go, it does it a page at a time, which makes it slow as tar and a huge pain.

  If bandwidth preservation is such a concern then note that it is not necessary to maintain full update frequency during periods of inactivity. It would be quite sufficient to have it update only once every hour or half-hour, as long as it pulls in all the tweets since the last update and not just the first n tweets. That would be perfectly adequate to avoid the PITA of returning after a period of absence to find the timeline has a huge gap in it which takes forever to fill up.

• Anonymous commented  ·  September 9, 2012 1:02 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I am totally sick of it!!!

• Shack commented  ·  February 19, 2012 8:19 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I have to agree. I've been trying to figure out how to 'turn off this function' for the past hour.
  Unlike most, when the inactive thing comes on, I have to log off and then back on again for aol to work properly.

• mghs commented  ·  October 20, 2011 8:39 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I agree.

• waterprise2 commented  ·  June 22, 2011 4:31 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I TOTALLY agree with the comment above. It is STUPID and unnecessary. It just adds ONE MORE click/wait to using the app. No other Twitter clients do this. This "feature" causes me to use the app LESS.

• Dreamkiller commented  ·  June 6, 2011 2:37 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please please please fix this. I'm moving over to Seesmic because of this.

• Irish_Tom commented  ·  June 6, 2011 4:11 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I agree, totally pointless and like McDavid, it takes a lot less than an hour of inactivity before it pops up.

• McDavid1 commented  ·  May 20, 2011 3:33 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I get the dialog pop-up when I've only been inactive for a couple of minutes, not for an hour or more. It is incredibly intrusive and unnecessary.