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  1. Share (and schedule) Facebook stories to Facebook pages/Twitter accounts from within Hootsuite.

    Currently, when I see a story on Facebook wall that I want to post to my Facebook page or tweet it, I have to go to Facebook.com to share it. I would be great if the "share" button from Facebook was one of the options in Hootsuite. This is especially useful when I want to post something to multiple pages or schedule a post for a future date.

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    • Post New Photo Albums to Facebook

      Currently, you can not create and post a new photo album to Facebook through Hootsuite. We create new albums for almost every event and like to post those new albums as an update - impossible through Hootsuite (meaning I can never schedule this kind of content ahead of time, which is a killer on weekends).

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      • I wish I could block users from within Hootsuite DASHBOARD, not just contacts

        Presently, there is no way to block someone from Dashboard without reporting them as Spam. The only way to non-spam block someone is to do so through Contacts, which means they must be following you or you them, and it is unwieldy if you're blocking many people at once.

        I recommend an option in dashboard beside "Report Spammer" which is simply "Block".

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        • Implement PIWIK in Hootsuite!

          Google Analytics is not suiteable for german data law rights. Soit would be nice if you implemented Piwik because it is more and more popular.

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          • Allow uploading pictures to FB groups

            I would like my pictures to post to FB groups, and not just my personal wall, and of course have the picture be embedded...not a link to a picture.

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            • Embed YouTube links as playable videos

              If you post a YouTube link manually it embeds on your Facebook page.

              Currently, Hootsuite creates a thumbnail image and puts up a text link to a YouTube video instead of embedding it straight on Facebook.

              This is way less attractive when a user is browsing their feed, so I want to suggest embedding for YouTube (and Soundcloud) implemented when posting links from Hootsuite.

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              • Allow users to add copy to the beginning OR end of tweets. Right now, 'prepending' is only option.

                HootSuite only allows users to add text to the beginning of each tweet. HootSuite calls this 'prepending'. It would be helpful for those of us working with RSS to add copy such as hashtags at the end of our tweets.

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                • HootSuite Desktop Customization

                  It would be awesome if there was the capability to customize the colors/themes of HootSuite Desktop as with other Twitter clients. Even if the selection was limited to just several choices.

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                    4 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                    You can choose between three theme options under Preferences (Classic, Blue Steel and Magnum). We’ll look to add more color customization in the future.
                    Thanks for your feedback.

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                    • Realtime twitter update

                      Right now, the shortest HootSuite update interval is 2 minutes (unless you pull a manual update). TweetDeck has implemented realtime Twitter updating. HootSuite should do the same.

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                      • Reduce the price of adding a vanity URL

                        $49.00 is still too much for this service, especially when it won’t even work with the Hootlet bookmark.

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                        • allow users to share tabs between teams (including subsequent columns)

                          allow users to share tabs between teams (including subsequent columns). You should also be able to assign a column to a tab.

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                          • Add a stream showing my tweets favorited by others

                            It would be nice to be able to see a stream of my tweets favorited by other users. Push notifications for favorites would be the next step.

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                            • Please get rid of the "you've been inactive for over an hour" .dialog

                              Please get rid of the "you've been inactive for over an hour" dialog. Who cares if I have! I don't tweet every minute of every hour 24 hours a day. I often just glance at Hootsuite on my laptop once in a while while I work to see if anything worthwhile has come up. I don't reply or post at least once an hour and shouldn't be reminded of it. This dialog is completely useless and extremely annoying!

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                                11 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                                This dialogue box currently exists to preserve bandwidth. We’ll consider other alternatives for this function.

                              • add the possibility to remove the hashtag "#" when posting differently than twitter ?

                                It's good to have the "#" symbol for twitter.
                                Then, when your post is going to facebook or linkedin, you have the "#" symbol before some words.
                                But for people who don't know the meaning of the "#", it seems strange .. so it maybe a good idea to have an option to remove the "#" when posting to Facebook or Linkedin (elsewhere thant twitter).
                                Thank you.

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                                  9 comments  ·  Networks  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Give Ow.ly custom addresses (like bit.ly & tinyurl allow) Example:

                                  With bit.ly & tinyurl you can create your own custom ending. I would LOVE that with ow.ly.

                                  Examples:
                                  http://tinyurl.com/Wisdom-Of-Will
                                  http://bit.ly/Your-BusinessCard-Is-Crap

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                                  • Allow users to schedule new style retweets

                                    Currently, only the old style retweets can be scheduled. I would like to be able to schedule the new style retweets as well.

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                                    • Lower the price for new analytics. $50/ per report is very high

                                      The reports look great, but at 10x the monthly cost of a pro membership, they seem very overpriced, considering most of the data you can get for free from their respective networks.

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                                      • Post Facebook photo without using the owl.ly image hosting.

                                        Sometimes I post images which I like the user to be able to view on the Facebook page without clicking the owl.ly link. It would be great if these images could be uploaded to the Facebook page (with a chosen image folder).

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                                          7 comments  ·  Networks  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • Press ESCAPE key to clear and close the entry box when you dont want to sub

                                          Like Gtalk, Msn, OCS, or other instant messenger, when you press the ESCape key, it closes the current window. For the browser hootsuite I would like to have a similiar aproach. Sometimes im writting a tweet, suddenly I give up that idea and dont want to submit it. I'd like to, when i press the ESCape key, have the box that i was typing getting cleared and closed.

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