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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.
54 votesWe hope to further extend Facebook functionality.
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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).
54 votesWe’ll examine if this feature is available with Facebook’s API.
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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".
50 votesWe’ll consider including this as a feature in a future release.
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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.
49 votesWe’re considering other Analytics platforms to integrate into HootSuite.
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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.
49 votesWe’ll look at further ways to include photos with more Facebook functionality.
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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.
48 votesWe’ll look into ways of embedding YouTube videos into posts sent to Facebook.
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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.
48 votesAdding options for postpended text is a feature we are considering.
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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.
47 votesYou can choose between three theme options under Preferences (Classic, Blue Steel and Magnum). We’ll look to add more color customization in the future.
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45 votes
We hope to add additional functionality to Facebook in the upcoming future.
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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.
45 votesWe are currently considering ways to stream social network data.
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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.
45 votesWe continue to consider ways to offer value to HootSuite customers.
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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.
44 votesGreat idea, and one to consider for a future release.
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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.
42 votesWe’ll examine if this is possible with Twitter’s API.
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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!
42 votesThis dialogue box currently exists to preserve bandwidth. We’ll consider other alternatives for this function.
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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.42 votesWe’ll examine further options for hashtags with different social networks.
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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-Crap41 votesWe’d like to add more features to Ow.ly.
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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.
41 votesWe’ll look into if this is possible with Twitter’s API.
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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.
41 votesWe continue to review ways to offer value to HootSuite customers.
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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).
40 votesWe’ll consider this functionality for future releases. Thank you for your feedback!
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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.
39 votesThis is a great feature suggestion that would improve HootSuite’s usability.
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