HootSuite blog – Social Media Dashboard

This will be the tool I use on my iphone!

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Any chance of seeing hootsuite for the BlackBerry in the near future?

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Awesome! Can’t wait till it becomes available, just checked the App Store but it’s not there yet. Maybe I’ll win a free copy?

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Wow… looks great. You managed to get all of the web client’s functionality into the app. Very impressive.

Looking forward to an Android port so I can take advantage of Hootsuite on the go on my phone!

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Excited to take it for a spin.

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I’ve been waiting for this day (actually for the launch day tomorrow) for a long time. HootSuite’s abilities to manage multiple accounts and schedule tweets is a major selling point for me. And, as we work with clients on optimizing the time they spend using Twitter, being able to schedule updates is a key benefit of HootSuite.

I am looking forward to downloading the app tomorrow and putting it through its paces. Thanks for making this available!

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This looks great! I am always on the lookout for the next great addition to my apps collection on my iPhone. I am looking forward to trying this out and see if it makes the periodic cuts I make when I find something that is more efficient and allows me to work better than before.

Thank you for taking time to develop this app, at first glance it seems like this is going to be a keeper!

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Sounds awesome like HootSuite web client, can’t wait to put my hands on it! pls play fair with the price

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What about Google Android phones?

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Looks great! Do we have to re-tweet every hour for a chance to win?

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@Craig Willis
We’re drawing a winner per countdown tweet. So if you didn’t win when you RTed at 23 hours left, for example, and you keep RTing each new countdown tweet, you’ll be entered for each new hour. Participate as much or as little as you like.

Good luck!

Grace from HootSuite

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Hi,
I agree with all of the above. I’ve been running two different twitter aps on my iPhone in an attempt to manage two accounts (personal one and charity one) and allow both to update Facebook properly. I just hope the cost of this new app isn’t too prohibitive for the multitude of us who fail to win a free copy. Any indication yet what the price will be?

Keep up the good work,
Eleanor
@eleanoredwards
@GiveABrick

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@Eleanor Edwards
I’m still hesitant to give up Tweetdeck, since their price is $0, but hootsuite might be too good not to buy if the price is right.

I RTed in hopes for the free app, but the bit.ly URL got garbled and doesn’t link properly now. Guess I’ll have to patiently wait for the next countdown tweet.

@KenLenAld

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I clicked on the app store link on hootsuite.com/iphone and it took me to the app store. I purchased the app and it’s working just fine! So far it’s looking like a solid app thats well worth the price!

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Installed! It’s beautiful!

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Actually at 10:48 Central time on December 9th, it’s up for download both App Stores. I got mine.

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I do not see any mention of push notifications. Am I right in guessing there aren’t any? Just thought I’d ask! Thanks.

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The price is $1,99 – too much for me, using Tweetdeck for free with which I manage 5 different accounts. Really, can’t you make it free, please?

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Where’s the Facebook and Linkedin functionality in the app?

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I bought this as soon as I noticed it had been released this morning (UK time).

There seems to be a major bug with Geolocated tweets – they crash the app. If ever a geolocated tweet appears in the time line, the app just shuts. Which makes it pretty much unusable in its present form.

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I tried to download this app on my iPod Touch and the App Store wouldn’t let me saying the HootSuite App required a microphone. I was pretty bummed, otherwise I would have bought it. What would you need a microphone for on HootSuite?

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Got mine last night and it is constantly crashing whenever I load a Home stream on any account. From time to time it lets me load them, but as I start to go through it, bam, it crashes again. Whenever it does that, it garbles up the avatars of all my various accounts, taking one of them and applying it to the other ones (I update the account name/pass and it fixes it).

I want this to work because it’s also what I use on my laptop, but first impressions have been much marred by my inability to use it right.

I’m using an iPod Touch, latest version.

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@Gibson
I downloaded it via the iTouch AppStore app and it worked just fine for me, no mic required. Weird.

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The features are great, but it’s disappointing so see the lack of social network integration. At the very least, a Ping.fm tie-in would have been easy to throw in. Tweetie 1 (which I continue to use) had it, and no other client I’ve gotten since has.

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@Nathan
We’ll be adding this later on.

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@Doug
Coming soon!

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@Dan
@Dan @Gibson Are you both using the most recent software on your respective iPhone and iPod? For further queries and some superlative customer service, please visit http://feedback.hootsuite.com

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@Michael DeBusk
Facebook and LinkedIn integration are being worked on in the owl laboratory as we speak. Stay tuned.

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I loved it for 30 minutes, then it started to crash. Tried do delete all data and sign up again, but then it starts crashing again – always when I load home streams or hit refresh. Same goes for a lot of my twitter contacts. Seems to be a major bug.

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Support Reply:
December 10th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

The crash occurs with geo-tracked tweets in the homefeed. We submitted a fix last night and the update should be available soon. For other issues, and for excellent customer service, please visit us at http://feedback.hootsuite.com

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Oh, and I use an iPhone 3G w. latest firmware.

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@Gibson I experienced the same issue – but only after I downloaded it, since I bought it via the iTunes store. Very disappointing.

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I need to update my firmware! Arrrrgh!!! I love Hootsuite that much!

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Trying to download the app from my iTouch over wi-fi and it says it will only run on an iPhone because it needs a mic. Is this just an issue with the way the app is set up on the app store. It looks like others have gotten it to work, I assume downloading it in iTunes and syncing. I’d prefer not to do it that way.

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I have a iPod Touch Gen 1. It is running 3.1.2 iPod software as the current version. When I try to load the app, it tells me it can’t be installed and requires a microphone. Huh? Why? Will this be fixed? (Please?)

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So happy about this app! All it needs is facebook and facebook fan-page management Great job guys, I’m a huge supporter of Hootsuite!

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Works on my iPhone 3G. Great! Thank you!

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I love the app, but I would really like an “email tweet” feature. Helps when I want to read something later… Also – syncing from what you have on your computer to your iPhone.

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Good start, BUT… 1) the inability to tell new tweets from old tweets, along with automatically loading at the top of the stream ia a major fail for both the desktop and iPhone apps. 2) the lack of synching between desktop and phone apps. If I have an account, it would have been nice to synch my desktop’s tabs to my app tabs. And 3) the lack of Facebook and LinkedIn support like the desktop. As you have said, those are in work.

Those three reasons are why I bought the app, but will NOT be using it as my primary social network tool. That will remain Tweetie 2, QStatus, and TwitBird Prem (for notifications).

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I think it is the best so far. I bought 3 other apps last week, even paid premium fees for global notification. I would add to what has been asked earlier push notification. Landscape orientation, larger text button option. Thanks anyway

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Still looking for an answer to this question. Can someone from Hootsuite comment on this?

I have a iPod Touch Gen 1. It is running 3.1.2 iPod software as the current version. When I try to load the app, it tells me it can’t be installed and requires a microphone. Huh? Why? Will this be fixed? (Please?)

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@Support: Still no reply from you regarding iTouch 1st. gen needing a microphone so we cannot download HootSuite on our iTouch. Please let us know if you will be making changes to allow us to be able to get your app!

I did purchase it on iTunes thinking it might be the way to get it on my iTouch but that also didn’t work.

I have made several requests on your other blog page “there’s an owl for that”. Since so many people have the same problem, an answer would be nice!

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Support Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 10:18 am

Please visit http://feedback.hootsuite.com for support.

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I absolutely love this app. I’m actively thinking about getting rid of my other Apps. It’s that good. There are some minor things I would have done differently, but so be it…

Thanks for the Hoot!

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@Andy Gradel

You can’t tweet to anything but your Twitter account(s). No Facebook, no ping.fm, so I can’t really send updates using the iPhone app because they’ll only go to Twitter and nothing else.

unless I’m missing something?

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Support Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 10:48 am

That’s correct for now, Alex. Stay tuned for social network integration very soon.

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Great, can’t wait to use the app when I finally get my Iphone!

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can’t have twitter update facebook status… and when I check my twitter stats via iphone, my picture covers the stats. i like the format but need the stats fix as well as facebook update capability.

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Sticking with another app till the fb & li integration is available. Any update on when that will be available? Approx date?

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VERY VERY VERY disappointing that this doesn’t connect to facebook or fan pages and yet you are chraging me money for this when other free apps with near identical functionality are…free.

MY fault of course for not reading the fine print…but I STILL feel ripped off. This lack of functionality should have been written IN THE SPECS to avoid angry comments like this.

If I could return this product I would.

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Is anyone else having a problem with scheduled tweets using the iPhone? When I schedule a tweet, I choose the day and the time, but then the program assigns the year 2010 to the tweet. The clock on the iPhone is correct and I don’t see anywhere to set the year in Hootsuite.

Ideas?

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Support Reply:
January 3rd, 2010 at 4:19 pm

Please visit http://feedback.hootsuite.com for customer service.

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I do not have an I-phone but coming from you guys, it must be good.

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Looking forward to the Android version. I don’t have an iPhone.

Best,

Jessica

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What about BlackBerry?

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Nice app, where’s the android version?

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A Windows Mobile/Phone version would be amazing!

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really a very wonderful app…

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