Please add a stream to track new followers
Being able to track and respond to new followers is essential. This stream option is available on TweetDeck, but I would rather use HootSuite. I hate having to switch back and forth...besides, the TweetDeck app eats up tons of memory and slows my laptop down...a lot!
kjbennett
shared this idea
Right now, if you want to track your new followers within HootSuite, you can go to the Contacts section of the dashboard. Here, you will be able to view your followers, and it automatically sorts them from newest to oldest.
As for a dedicated stream, it is something worth considering which is why we continue to mark this idea as “under review”.
32 comments
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Aleya
commented
Apparently Tweetdeck just got rid of this feature, which is why you should add it asap...
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chairyoga
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It owuldl be nice if there was an indicator on contacts telling which are new since that last time one has gotten onto HootSuite. Tweetdeck (which is now almost useless) did this very well. I still use the old version just for this function. They palced a white dot on every item in every column that is new since the last time the app was used. Geat feature.
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spudart
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I want to remain in Hootsuite for all my twitter activities. I'd imagine Hootsuite would like me to remain in their application for everything I need on Twitter. I often need to see the new people following me, as I like to send a personal thank you / welcome tweet to each new follower.
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@angelakeen
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This does not address those of us who have a private account. I cannot see those who have requested a follow! Showing a followers stream does nothing for those of us who have a private account. Please reconsider. I am flipping back and forth... Pretty soon, I will have to stop using Hootsuite. :-(
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chairyoga
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The problem is that there is no indicator as to whether you have followed the person already. Tweetdeck does this. Sure would be great if you did. This would eliminate a separate new follower stream I think.
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kjbennett
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I started this thread over a year ago and honestly - I've given up on Hootsuite. The TweetDeck platform is buggy as hell and bogs down my processor while I work ...but it offers the professional features needed to successfully use social media as a marketing tool. Simple features like a stream to track new followers or username autofill are simple adds, but Hootsuite refuses to budge. Frustrating.
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chairyoga
commented
I could not agree more that this feature is essential for Twitter. Tweetdeck is failign since Twiteer bought them and I need to rely more nad more on you.
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Charlie Fernandez
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Just essential !!!! The 1impression with your new followers is the most important ! Moreover, this feature is available on Tweetdeck !
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phineas
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Chris: TweetDeck (and others) have this feature. Being aware of and reacting to each new follower is not only a good way to build your follower list -- it's common courtesy on Twitter. HootSuite offers many cool unique features. But Twitter also has a powerful feature set, one that your team should study. I realize you can't do everything at once but this is one you should give very strong consideration to.
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Chirs
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Seriously, the lack of this feature will probably be the reason I cancel my PAID subscription to Hootsuite if it doesn't come available soon....
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Alicia
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Seriously cannot believe that HootSuite STILL has not implemented this feature, especially when so many people have been asking for it for so long!
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Leah Kaplan
commented
If it were a stream I could search it, yes? This would be great.
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luggag3
commented
I know you can see it in contacts but i too wamt it in a stream please
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Seth
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Tweetdeck has this - It's extremely helpful in reaching the newest followers with a DM
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Jeff
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Oh my gawwwd?! You, @kjbennet, are so full of yourself.
The reason I deleted my comments is because you have twisted and attacked everything I said. So I tried to modestly explain myself and bow out of the thread with my dignity, save for my final comment on the account of your flagrant attitude.
I mentioned I have a work-around in the meantime, you flame me as if I'm trying to influence others to abandon support of this request by revoking their votes in favor of an alternative suggestion. I said I use a free tool that helps me automate a self-updating list, you accuse me of promotional spam. I say I don't get it, and you accuse me of being belittling and condescending. I'm not even affiliated with Hootsuite, but you continue to harass me for being a combative admin.
So, on the contrary, you are the one being belittling, condescending, combative, rude, and a bunch of other synonymous adjectives and expletives! Well, except for now I'm stooping down to your level because I can't stand to take any more of your unwarranted, relentless badgering.
If you asked for a password vault and I said in the meantime you can write it down and bury it in a mason jar, you'd make me out to be a condescending admin promoting pencils, paper and pickles. I don't get it? Ooops! Now I just became combative, according to you.
No, the process doesn't evade me. Instead, the process indicates that in the meantime some of us may desire to take matters into our own hands and opt for an alternative, but by no means superior, solution. But I believe the process has evaded you, whom apparently believes everyone should be just like you and do nothing at all while waiting for a feature that isn't even on the roadmap at this point.
Face it. The feature doesn't exist right now. So, come down off of your pedestal and quit trying to make me look like an idiot for making a reasonable alternative suggestion which provides for an immediate solution until (if/when) the feature is implemented. I visited this suggestion to support it even though in the meantime I have personally implemented a temporary work-around for managing a "new followers" list. Just because the workable alternative I offered does not suffice for you does not mean that it is not suitable for someone else.
In the meantime, if you have a better temporary solution, I'm open-minded. Else, in the meantime, quit bullying me and my ideas and acting like you own this thread.
Something else has bugged me for a while that I must get off my chest. You claimed, "if this wasn't a highly useful tool, many of us would have switched over from TweetDeck entirely." This just does not make sense. First of all, if it is such a highly useful tool (and it *is*), then why bother using TweetDeck at all? Secondly, all of your requests on this site suggest to make this tool more like TweetDeck, so if that's the case then why bother switching over from TweetDeck at all? In case you don’t realize, those are rhetorical questions.
Finally (I hope), I'll make you a deal. I'll quit poking holes in your lack of common sense and offensive demeanor if you also quit responding to my comments. Furthermore, if you delete your comments directed at me, then I'll delete all my comments, and this thread goes back to the way it was before I showed up.
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@ Jeff - if your comment couldn't be misconstrued as rude or condescending...why delete it? And continuing to respond in such a juvenile way is far from professional.
Some of us would rather not opt for a "work around" and have every right to make requests without being insulted. This process seems to have evaded you.
If you're going to be an administrator for a large company's online forum, I suggest you adopt a less combative attitude. -
Jeff
commented
@kjbennett... I don't think my tone was condescending at all. Just offering a helpful suggestion. To be safe and ensure the relevant and simple work-around I suggested doesn't insult anyone else's intelligence, I've deleted my previous comments. While you're waiting for the feature to be implemented, good luck not taking a personal approach to solving your need in the meantime. Yes, that statement was condescending, but only toward you.
For anyone whom desires to see if my work-around may be useful for your immediate needs, feel free to DM @Pepperfly. :-)
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Jeff - Your comment is a little condescending, is that necessary...especially for an administrator? There's no reason to belittle people.
Some of us tried your (strongly) suggested "Formulists" and found it to be a less than superior solution. And yes, you do sound like you're promoting it.Simple request you will hopefully understand this time - A streaming column that registers new followers in real time.
Pretty simple request...right?
NOTE: If this wasn't a highly useful tool, many of us would have switched over from TweetDeck entirely. -
HuntAndFishGuides
commented
I too prefer to have this in a column format or "stream", as opposed to having to go to the contacts menu to access it.
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Mikeowcarz
commented
I would like this as a stream so I can see what kind of tweets they have and then decide whether or not they are a person I want to follow. Sometimes its tough to gauge by their bio and last tweet. I'm giving this my 1st 3 votes because it is that important to me.
