Improve Scheduled Tweets Interface
In Hootsuite, you have limited control over scheduling updates (only every 5 minutes) and every field needs to be entered separately (date, hour, minute etc).
Once you schedule an update, you then need to *reset* each field even if there's only 1 field that is changing if you want to schedule another tweet.
A better interface would be to allow you to type in a date and time for the update, and for there to be an option to default the next tweet to the same time so it can quickly and easily be updated.
When is this useful?
If you have a regular feature such as a quote of the day that you want to go out every day, it would be much faster to schedule a month's worth of updates at a time if you didn't have to rechoose all of your options every single time.
I currently use a different service *just* to schedule my updates because they are much easier to do, and allow me to schedule at 1 minute past the hour rather than only on the hour or 5 minutes past etc.
I just enter a quote, select the date and time, select the account to send from, save, then enter the next quote, change the day, save, etc.
In Hootsuite, that process is currently enter a quote, click schedule later, click each field for month, date, hour, minute, etc, click the account, click send now. Then I enter the next quote, click schedule later, click each field for month date hour minute etc, click the account, then click send now again.
It's a lot more work.
Blaine Moore
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We recently added bulk uploads. Add up to 50 scheduled tweets in a csv and upload. Hope you all enjoy.
7 comments
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Maisie
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We need to be able to tweet in one minute intervals please!!!!
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@EastValleyinfo
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i like the bulk idea to. but the interface and the tweeking i had to do . made it not worth it. i would not pay for that service. but i saw on a different site that a site is working on a calendar style future tweeting. now if Hootsuite could do that then they will impress.
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@EastValleyinfo
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i like the idea of the bulk schduled but it needed alot of tweeking to get it to work. and it is not user friendly.a different site is working with a calendar style. for future tweets. if you had this feature i would pay for pro.
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nancyso
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While I like the bulk upload feature, I agree with John Goggan in that the original request was really not addressed.
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John Goggan
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In my opinion, this really shouldn't be closed as "completed." What the original requester was asking for (an improved interface for the scheduler) had very little to do with anything that is solved by bulk uploads from a CSV file. We're just talking about wanting to be able to schedule a handful of things in a row where it would sure be great if it didn't reset EVERYTHING back to the defaults. I.e. fill in the LAST info we used, so we can just adjust the time a bit if we are doing a few scheduled posts in a row.
Also, change the interface to allow 1-minute increments instead of 5-minute ones.
None of that was really "completed", IMO.
- John...
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John Goggan
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I support this -- even if just for the feature to allow things to be scheduled to a specific MINUTE instead of in 5-minute increments.
5 minutes can be forever for some Twitter feeds -- if I'm telling someone about something coming up in the very near future, telling them about it 5 minutes before might be too far out still. Need 1-minute increments.
- John...
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Blaine Moore
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