Add some user options to Auto Scheduler
I like the Auto-Scheduler concept – I try to only post to our social network accounts about 3 times a day, however, and my first two “auto-scheduled” posts have been scheduled to go up within 45 minutes of each other.
Perhaps a customized setting where a user can specify a minimum time period between postings?
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We’ll be looking at implementing this in the future. Please leave your suggestions for specific “User Options” in the comments below. Thank you!
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Anonymous
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It would be great to be able to schedule things in the future using an AutoSchedule tool that chooses the "best times" for different days. Especially since a competing system already offers this feature.
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Dan Dlugos
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The ability to see when Auto Schedule will post your content before submitting it.
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aria
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I would LOVE some options for the autoscheduler. Minimum 3 hours apart, maximum 3 per day, pick the day but let autoscheduler pick the time, etc. It would make it so much faster to control the timing of content!
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Anonymous
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I would love to be able to set the maximum number of posts per day as others have said. It would be highly useful!
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Anonymous
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Yes, have a max posts per day option so posts automatically roll-over to the next day after max posts have been scheduled.
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Nikki Navta
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I agree that I want the ability to spread out my posts over a few days rather than having them all go in one short time period.
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Mike Morabito
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I love the autoschedule feature. But yes, I would like it to have an option to be limited to 3 times a day. I have a requirement to post 3 times a day for my job. It would make it easier if it would automatically roll over to the next day after 3 posts. I'm more confident in HootSuites ability to choose the optimal time than my own! Without the posts per day limit, I have to guess what would be optimal.
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Xenion
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Please make they auto scheduler work like Buffer does, it's the reason why we migrated away from Sprout. Over there you could only make very basic settings as well, like "Number of postings per day". However it would be nice to limit it to specific days, just as buffer. For example, the weekdays, 2 times per day, the weekend, 1 time per day. How long will it take to implement this? It's been almost a year now!
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AnBe
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I think a time range for auto-scheduling is very nice. P.e. Auto-schedule between 8:00 am and 9:00 p.m. or two (or more) time blocks per day
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Corianda
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Adding this now: specifically being able to choose how many tweets go out a day is important. We manage a high-volume account, and seeing that autoscheduled tweets often go out more than 24 hours later is very frustrating.
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Sydney Stikeleather
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Frequency of posts (number per day) which can be customized per social network. Similar to Buffer, but I don't want to have to use another service when we're already paying for HootSuite.
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Ryan Chamberlain commented
Ditto'ing comments below...8 months of requests it seems...
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Kobestarr
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Is there any update on this? That would be THE BEST!!!!
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Alan Bawden
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I am with Tara and the other users, I would like to schedule a set number of posts a day
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Anonymous
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I would like to see it have a way to pick the day to autoschedule. I love the idea but if I have multiple things I want to post over days I have to go in and schedule them myself instead of being able to pick the day and having the autoscheduler do the rest. That's my .02. Love the chatter below. I like the idea of having it post more on one platform versus another! Keep up the good work guys!
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Anonymous
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Me too, auto schedule should include date scheduling too.
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Kimberly Gonzalez commented
I would like to:
- Limit the days I post for each network (e.g., I generally don't post to Twitter on weekends and I don't post every day on LInkedIn)
- Set the max number of posts for each network (e.g., I only post once or twice per day when I post to LinkedIn, but I'll post more on Twitter -- but not as many times as Hootsuite has currently set for the default)
- Choose a day and let autoschedule choose a time
- Autoschedule my bulk uploads too -- preferably with the option to choose a day and let autoschedule choose a time -- AND preferably with the option to adjust those times separately
- Add or remove times
- Adjust times
- Set Autoschedule to default at ON or OFF, or even better allow the user to determine whether the want it to be a default or toggle settin. Right now it's a toggle, so if I turn it off to send a live tweet, then I have to toggle it back on if I want to autoschedule the next post.
- Blackout times -- I don't want a post scheduled to go live when I'm asleep :)
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This is a great idea too -- and one that is best left to the user to control, although having the recommended times and posts set by default is helpful. Some users may be perfectly happy with the default, but I'd prefer more control over how many posts per day go out to each of my networks.
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This would be a cool alternative to jimmying around with the schedule itself and wouldn't completely defeat the purpose of autoscheduling. This would also be a great feature for users who might like to post related links on the same day without having to plan the time. For example, I tweet links relevant to writers and with an option like this, I could autoschedule all my grammar-related posts for Monday, all my creativity-related posts for Tuesday, etc.
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Setting a max number of posts is an excellent idea -- especially if whatever algorithm Hootsuite uses could determine what the best times for those X posts are. But I'd still be happy with just deleting out some time slots (like I can do on Buffer).
Another great option would be to determine what types of posts get autoscheduled -- I'd like the option globally make RTs either autoscheduled or immediate as well as replies. Personally, I think replies should be immediate and RTs to be scheduled, but it would be nice for each individual user to be able to make that decision whether they are immediate or autoscheduled.
