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  1. 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 →
    • Add notifications / alerts that can be set for hashtags

      Just like getting a notification when your user name is in a tweet, we could set one for a particular hashtag.

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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.

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        • bring back change font options

          who in their right mind omits/removes this feature? I can't find it anywhere no matter the how-to says I can find it in preferences.

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            0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

            This is a good idea, especially for users who may not want to change their browser preferences. Note that you can increase font size from your browser preferences through zooming in. Hope this helps!

          • add TweetMarker support to sync Timeline betweet devices.

            Add TweetMarker to sync Timeline between different Devices and Twitterclients. See www.tweetmarker.net

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            • Add "near:" search operator

              Twitter now supports the search operator "near:", followed by the name of a place, e.g. near:"Brisbane, Australia". There are other sites now offering this functionality under a "local search" banner (see monitter) and that's a super useful targeting tool for small business.

              Please add support for this operator and allow geo search.

              Thank you,
              Gal

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                6 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                planned  ·  Chris from HootSuiteChris from HootSuite responded

                Currently, you can do geocode specific searches. For example: “geocode:49.2846165,-123.0954835,25km”

                We do not yet offer functionality for the “near:” operator. However, this is on our road map.

              • Allow customizable embeddable column width

                Having a minimum width of 300 px makes it impossible to use as a widget on blogs. Allow us to customize the width so it can be used in a variety of ways.

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                • include Facebook "likes" and "comments" in stats, just like bit.ly

                  In bit.ly it shows the total number of Facebook "likes" and "comments" for a shortened link. It would be really helpful to have that same functionality in stats for Hootsuite.

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                  • Distinguish title and body for Blogs

                    When posting to Wordpress there is no way to set the title of the post. I suggest using the first line for the title and the rest for the body.

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                    • add new myspace

                      Please add new myspace

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                      • Give users the option to remove retweets from lists

                        With the Twitter API change on or about Apr 1 2013, twitter native retweets now can show up in lists. I'd like to turn them off and as per the dev documentation of a lists query for twitter, you can turn on or off native retweets with a simple flag (ow.ly/jGMvt). I'd tie this flag to a radio button for display native retweets yes/no when people add columns displaying a list.

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                        • build a Drupal module (or get us to)

                          Would love to have a drupal module that allowed us to auto-tweet new content with ow.ly shortened urls. we auto tweet new content now, but no drupal module that gives us both url shortening and tracking through hootsuite. might you tell us how to build such a module using ow.ly api? Thanks!

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                          • Hide Games from Facebook Updates

                            When FB friends post updates with games they are playing (like Farmville) I like to hid them. They don't show up on FB after I hide them, but they keep showing up in Hootsuite. Hidden people are removed from Hootsuite, but not hidden games

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                            • Add an Auto-shrink (Auto-shorten) button users can click to replace URL's with short URL's

                              HootSuite should have a "shrink" button that automatically replaces any URL's in a post with a short URL. I hate having to cut URL's out of the post, shrink them, and move them back to the proper place in the post (instead of at the end). Follow Tweetdeck's example and make HootSuite more usable for your customers.

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                                • Shorten links automatically

                                  automatically shorten URLs pasted into the Compose Message window if there is enabled option

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                                    • to add yourls support for own link shortening

                                      Use the API of the simple to configure yourls open source project to shorten links with the use of the own domain. ie. pro7.de/galileolive

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                                      • configure the Auto-Schedule function to not delay RTs and replies

                                        Instead of kicking the toggle back and forth between Auto-Schedule and not, I would like to see a way that RTs or replies are not auto-scheduled and it is recognized that, that information should be sent in real time.

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                                          6 comments  ·  Networks  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                                          This is an excellent feature suggestion, and we’ll continue to monitor how many users would like to implement this feature.

                                        • Minimum time to set posts apart in hootlet

                                          The new autoschedule option for hootlet is great... but What if I wanted to use it to schedule posts for a network for the next week...
                                          There should be an option IMO to limit how close together posts could be posted on each network via auto schedule, (say 12 hours apart for example) then when im looking for "next weeks posts", I can autoschedule and they will fill up the week.

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