#HootTip: How to Add & Adjust New Streams in #HootSuite

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The HootSuite Dashboard is designed for audience engagement. Make the most of your social media management and encourage community with our conversation-focused tools. We’re adding more features and functionality all time, so to help get you acquainted, or just give you a refresher, this #HootTip highlights a handy HootSuite feature.
Adding Streams

Adding new connections is an exciting part of social networking. With the expansion of your network comes the need to organize the overload of information. At HootSuite, we recognize the need to organize the waterfall of information coming from your social sphere into a trickle of manageable streams.

In this #HootTip, we will show you how to take all the messages from your social networks and organize them into efficient streams. It’s a simple way to become a social media power-user within minutes.

Here’s How

  1. On the upper left side of the Dashboard there is an “+ Add Stream” button. Click on the button, and a window will pop up.Add Stream in HootSuite
  2. Select the social network that you want to create the stream for.
  3. Depending on the social network you’ve selected you can choose from several types of streams.Adding Streams for Facebook in HootSuiteAdd Twitter Stream HootSuite
  4. When you have selected the type of stream you would like to create, click “Create Stream”, and voila!

Adjusting Streams

Once you’ve got the hang of adding streams focusing on all your favorite topics, you will begin to have a lot more streams in your HootSuite Dashboard. To help you adjust your stream width, use the handy toggle bar. Follow the steps below and you will learn how to your streams in no time.

Here’s How

  1. Underneath the search box, in the upper right corner, you will find the toggle bar. Slide the toggle back and forth to adjust stream widths. Adjust Stream HootSuite
  2. If you want to adjust column widths further, try increasing or decreasing your computer’s screen resolution.

Note: If you are using an older computer model with a resolution of 1024 x 768 or lower, the maximum number of columns you’ll see is three, and no adjustment of the column’s width will change this.


Like many updates, we’ve added these handy features based on your helpful feedback. What’s your next idea?

Keep an eye out for a new #HootTip each week – they’re short, sweet and re-Tweetable so you can share your HootSuite expertise with your friends and followers. Some lucky RTers may just find themselves with a #HootKit… It’s our way of saying “thanks for spreading the word.”

 

Author: Ian Walker

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Comments

  1. Mike Bracco September 12, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    Great tips – Thanks! :) Would love for you to make Klout scores persistant in any Twitter stream instead of having them disappear when navigating to another tab within Hootsuite.

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  2. Pradeep Chandrana September 13, 2011 at 9:19 am

    I tried to add my facebook stream to hootsuite, and it is not letting me add, am I missing a step or two

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  3. ecuamerican September 13, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    I added Twitter lists to my streams, but it appears that retweets by those whom I follow don’t appear on the Lists Streams (new style retweets with full profile avatar & message, not old style “RT @nnnnn yadda yadda). Are there any settings I can change or is this a glitch?

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  4. Dan Norris January 18, 2013 at 1:04 am

    I work 100% of my time on a laptop, it’s fine for every app but for some reason with Hootsuite I can’t have more than 3 streams. I know it can handle having thinner streams cause I make the browser smaller and they look fine but it won’t let me scroll past 3?

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