#HootTip: How to Schedule, View and Edit a Pending Post
With all the busy Owls out there, one needs make sure they’re making the best use of their time. Scheduling posts in HootSuite is an easy way to maximize both your presence and outreach in your social sphere. To help get you acquainted with the dashboard’s functionality, or just give you a refresher, we have a new #HootTip all about a handy HootSuite feature.
Scheduling Posts
Using social media to share and express your thoughts is as rewarding as it is entertaining. Whether you’re a startup, mid-size business, or a huge corporation, there may be times when you can’t be on your mobile or computer to be active in your social sphere. To stay on top of your game and multi-task your online and offline activities, schedule your messages and let HootSuite do the work for you. Scheduling messages you want to send out to your followers is also a great way to keep your information updated and timely. This way, you can send out a post for a time when you’re not plugged in to the world wide web.
Here’s How
- Type the message you wish to send in the Compose box, then click the calendar icon.
- A calendar will pop down and you can set the date and time you want to send your message.
- Next, choose the social network you would like to send the message from.
- Then click the Send Now button to schedule your post.
Viewing and Editing Your Schedule Posts
What happens if you schedule your post and you’ve realized you’ve made a mistake? Or perhaps you want to review some of the messages you’ve scheduled. Well, there’s a HootSuite feature for that.
Here’s How
- Click the Publishers icon, then select the Scheduled button.
- From here, you can edit any message that you’ve scheduled simply by hovering over the message and clicking the edit icon.
- This will open up an Edit Scheduled Message window where you can make and save your changes.
Like many updates, we’ve added these handy features based on your helpful feedback. What’s your next idea? Also 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.”
I’ve been scheduling tweets and Facebook updates over the past two days. The tweets work like a charm. The Facebook updates become scheduled, sit in the queue and vanish at the time of publishing. They never post to Facebook and there are no messages letting me know there has been an error. I’ve seen some buzz on twitter that this feature is not working. What’s up?
Hi Dan,
That doesn’t seem right. Visit the Help Desk for assistance.
My Facebook updates have been behind but I heard Facebook had issues.I love the service.
Thanks Casey Mahoney Brad P
Love you guys.
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I really, really, really wish that “Drafts” were
a stream (column) just like pending tweets are,
instead of that awkward drop down.
Or at least in addition to!
They were be soooo much easier to manage that way!
I am a paid user, recommend you all the time,
and I’ve been requesting this for almost 2 years.
(Before you even had drafts)
Thank you,
Tony
PS: Drafts in the mobile apps too please!
Hi Tony,
Thanks for these great suggestions! Let us know about them on our Feedback Channel. Users can vote up your idea from there.
How do I schedule EVENTS for Facebook?
Hi Leni,
Thanks for stopping by. Currently, the HootSuite dashboard doesn’t have that feature. We encourage you to suggest it on our Feedback Channel.
I have created prescheduled tweets on hootsuite, but I want to make them post on facebook as well. is there a way to add a social network without recreating each tweet?
Hi Laura,
There certainly is – Select multiple social networks when you’re creating your tweet/facebook update. They’ll post to both.
Be sure to keep in mind the character count at the bottom left of the Compose Box.
Any way to schedule tweets in the Hootsuite iPad app?
Hi Jane,
Both iPad and iPhone use the same iOS app. Presently, the mobile app does not have the Publisher view at this time, but there is an open feedback request for it here: http://ow.ly/f6obs
Coming soon to a mobile handset near you.
Hi, I am using the hootsuite iPad app, but can’t seem to find my scheduled tweets. Please can you point me in the right direction? Thanks.
Hi Hannah,
The iPad app does not support the Publisher view at this time, but there is an open feedback request for it here: http://ow.ly/f6obs
If you would like to see pending scheduled tweets on your iOS device, you can do so by adding a stream for each twitter account called “Pending Tweets.” I hope this is helpful while we work on making the app more robust.
Pending Tweets – that’s nice but no way to easily edit the update. Just copy/paste/edit and delete old update. Right? or, am I missing something?
Is the publisher to view/edit scheduled tweets available on Android?
Hi,
When i scheduling link to facebook page I want to schedule it without message text because Facebook now shows lagrer post on home page if you share link without text.
Is it possible to enable this option?
I started using Hootsuite I have 40% less visits from facebook with text above the shared link.
Thank you