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Recurring events

Schedule recurring events from the scheduler without having to do a batch. See Sprout Social's service - very robust and clear reporting, simple user interface for scheduling recurring messages. I would rather upgrade to pro on hootsuite and have this ability here instead.

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    Darshana HawksDarshana Hawks shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Branko ZabalaBranko Zabala shared a merged idea: Schedule the same post for different dates/times  ·   · 
    Warren K. FenwickWarren K. Fenwick shared a merged idea: Add daily and multiple day feature into Scheduler!  ·   · 
    Erin BishopErin Bishop shared a merged idea: Change how bulk scheduling of Tweets is handled...ditch the CSV  ·   · 
    AdamoAdamo shared a merged idea: Monthly option  ·   · 
    Alex PritchardAlex Pritchard shared a merged idea: have an option to send the same message every week/2weeks/3weeks/month? Recurring events  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Forecast Planning Posts  ·   · 
    AndriesAndries shared a merged idea: Is there any way that we can add a recurrent post on hootsuite?  ·   · 
    Bonnie McDonoughBonnie McDonough shared a merged idea: Is there a method of scheduling other than manually posting for every five minutes or so to have posts go out from a group of for example Fa  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Recurring posts  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: I want to be able to Schedule a tweet for EVERY friday at 8:00 pm  ·   · 
    Amanda MacArthurAmanda MacArthur shared a merged idea: Make copying and pasting tweets in publisher view faster + easier  ·   · 
    April WilliamsApril Williams shared a merged idea: Please add an option to post something on a regular schedule and to be able to add multiple dates and times to a post.  ·   · 
    AnonymousAnonymous shared a merged idea: setup a way to allow HS clients the option of multi-time schedulling in publisher .......same message posts.....  ·   · 
    Justin LongJustin Long shared a merged idea: Repeating Scheduled Post  ·   · 
    Steve MizeSteve Mize shared a merged idea: reocurring scheduled posts  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: allow selection of multiple dates on calendar graphic for same message  ·   · 
    Timothy M. NybergTimothy M. Nyberg shared a merged idea: More powerful schedulig tools  ·   · 
    David Delli PaoliDavid Delli Paoli shared a merged idea: allow reoccurring scheduled posts!  ·   · 
    ashrafashraf shared a merged idea: Autoretweet daily and daily tweet  ·   · 
    Adrian FrankAdrian Frank shared a merged idea: An app that lets you make REOCCURRING, scheduled posts. Hoot Suite only let's you schedule out a post one time.  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: The Ability To Schedule Reccuring Messages Every 7/14/21/30 Days or any other number  ·   · 
    Dario UtzDario Utz shared a merged idea: new feature:: auto post the same.  ·   · 
    AnonymousAnonymous shared a merged idea: re Hootlet, and the automated scheduling, can there also be automated rescheduling ie the ability to auto repost a link multiple times  ·   · 
    John ReaganJohn Reagan shared a merged idea: auto-schedule  ·   · 
    drvampirdrvampir shared a merged idea: Add reccuring tweet pleaseeeee  ·   · 
    shreefshreef shared a merged idea: Please make new optoin to change my posts date after post  ·   · 
    AnonymousAnonymous shared a merged idea: It would be great if you could pick more then one date on the calendar. For those of us who run specials on the same day and time throughout  ·   · 
    AnonymousAnonymous shared a merged idea: Have the ability to make a queue of automated times for tweets  ·   · 
    JohnJohn shared a merged idea: Ability to reschedule scheduled tweets.  ·   · 
    MarcieMarcie shared a merged idea: add in scheduling that we could add more dates at one time.  ·   · 
    AnonymousAnonymous shared a merged idea: Create a button to automatic re-schedule posts to a specific day  ·   · 
    VinceVince shared a merged idea: Multi schedule facebook statuses  ·   · 
    AnonymousAnonymous shared a merged idea: Now that you have the publisher feature, add a 'recurring' post. Like they have it outlook calendar.  ·   · 
    Daily BeepsDaily Beeps shared a merged idea: Please consider a faster way to schedule a recuring messages. We need to select multipule dates.  ·   · 
    Luis RamiloLuis Ramilo shared a merged idea: I wish to compose a single message and schedule it in a recurrent basis.  ·   · 
    Sassy Brit Alternative-Read.comSassy Brit Alternative-Read.com shared a merged idea: Enable automatic repeat messages. Once set they repeat as requested. Once a day/week/month/yr  ·   · 
    under review  ·  Chris from HootSuiteChris from HootSuite responded  · 

    We continue to consider further ways to add more functionality to HootSuite’s scheduling services.

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      • Warren K. FenwickWarren K. Fenwick commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Tone Williams, I understand your sentiments. I only been working HootSuite for almost one month. How long have you been working with it?

      • Tone WilliamsTone Williams commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I am preparing to leave HooteSuite as well. This has been ignored much too long and I feel like I'm wasting my money. I mean after nearly 500 votes, you'd think they'd take this seriously.

      • Warren K. FenwickWarren K. Fenwick commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Let's get this scheduler ehanancement done, HootSuite web development team! Please add a feature to enable messages to be scheduled with daily option, or the feature within the sscheuler calendar to use the "CTRL"+(left mouse button) to select multiple days in the calendar application.

      • RodolfoRodolfo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        This is a most have for me, please pay more attention to this feature or i will be moving to another service soon, i really need this, i am wasting a lot of time scheduling my tweets for my recurring campaings.

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        When I joined Hootsuite you could schedule multiple times for one message to go out - I was shown the facility during training last November. This was the principle reason I upgraded to Pro. Now I learn from Hootsuite that, (for me), this crucial part of their service is simply not available any more - not that I suppose they'll be offering me a refund for the last few months subscription - they recommended I add something to this forum instead. THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!

      • Bryan GilchristBryan Gilchrist commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Yeah, this is one reason I switched away from Hootsuite. Having to do batch messages, and being forced to make everyone different was a big time waster for me. I moved over to Sendible which allows reoccuring events and the messages can be the same. I only post about one message a day, though.

      • MatthewMatthew commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        In fact is there any update since your last post back on Oct 26, 2011

      • MatthewMatthew commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I am seriously consedering switching over to Sprout Social because they have this feature!!!

      • Aileen OAileen O commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Would love it if you guys can add the recurring feature. Having to do a batch and manually adds way too much work and slows down productivity.

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Yes agree with Darshana, sprouts multi scheduling is awesome be great if hootsuite can add this feature

      • MatthewMatthew commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Is there any update on this other than what was posted back on Oct 26 2011

      • RajRaj commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        We agree - we pay for pro and the lack of recurring events is killer. We are going to switch soon because it is a time kill.

      • HannahgwHannahgw commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Please add the functionality to send messages on a recurring basis. Having to schedule every single message for weekly classes that go year round is very tiring. Please help us out with this!

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I'll add my vote for this feature. I handle social media for my client and we post strategically-timed Tweets every evening at a time that is tied into our branding. We often have large-scale events that we want to promote via Twitter over several weeks leading up to the event, with repeating (non-spam) posts to boost ticket sales - it would be a HUGE help to have a way to do this via HootSuite without having to go to the bother of creating a .csv file for these posts. Would really like to see something by way of a response from HootSuite on this, other than "we continue to consider further ways to add more functionality...". If you truly want to keep your customers happy - especially your paying ones - you should seriously consider adding this feature.

      • Michael 'MC' CarterMichael 'MC' Carter commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        You know what would be awesome, is a "Sprinkle" function in HootSuite where if you want a tweet to go out multiple times (for example, in the lead up to a webinar or event, or to keep promoting a good blog post or landing page), to be able to click a 'Sprinkle' button where you can then specify an end date (if you want to -- e.g. if for an event or something that expires) as well as specify how frequently -- e.g. Daily, Almost Daily, Twice a Week, Weekly --- and the 'Sprinkle' element is where HootSuite would intelligently AutoSchedule but ensure a 'repeat tweet' doesn't go out on the same day of the week at the same time, to try to avoid the same users seeing repetitive tweets. Hope that makes sense. In SproutSocial we have been 'manually sprinkling' tweets via the Cmd+click on the Calendar to pick a variety of days. The problem with that though, is that even if you sprinkle across different days of the week, they will all be at the same time of day ... unless you repeat the process of selecting a different time of day, and then selecting different days from the prior group selected. Sprinkle the love ... :)

      • Michael 'MC' CarterMichael 'MC' Carter commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I have been a loyal SproutSocial user and the ability it gives you to manually schedule the one tweet to go out on various days (e.g. today, next Tuesday, the following Wednesday and then the Friday two weeks later, as a random example) is terrific. All the user needs to do is hold down Command (Mac) as they click multiple dates in the Calendar. HootSuite lacks this -- you only allow the user to select one date in the Calendar. Please allow multiple date selection. Thanks!

      • Shannon DueckShannon Dueck commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I agree with others that the practice of carefully staggered repeats (not spamming) is becoming an industry standard that Twitter is not trying to stop. It's been almost a year since you commented on this. Any updates you can share?

      • Manuel GomezManuel Gomez commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Please enable automatic recurring / repeat messages! Hootsuite needs it to stay competitive with other platforms. For example Sprout Social have it but you need to set it up and the same for Gremln.

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