#HootTip: Managing Your Twitter Contacts in #HootSuite

The HootSuite Dashboard is dedicated to streamlining your social media efforts. Once you pick up steam with your social media accounts, you’ll need to identify specific people you want to reach out to. HootSuite’s contact manager helps you do all this and more. To help get you acquainted with the Dashboard’s functionality, we have a new #HootTip all about a handy HootSuite feature.

Managing Your Contacts

The HootSuite Dashboard is the ultimate tool for managing multiple social accounts with multiple team members. As any social business should understand, managing your followers is just as important as managing your social media efforts. The Dashboard has a great contact feature where you can see who’s following you, and who you are following. You can also see who the major influencers are based on their Klout score, how many people they are following, and how many people are following them. 

Here’s How

1. Open up your HootSuite account, and click the Contacts icon.
2. This menu will show a list of all your Twitter Profiles and Lists you’ve created.
3. Click the Twitter profile you’d like to view the contacts for.
4. You will then see a list of people following you, followers, people following them, and their Klout scores.
5. You can then click on their Twitter avatar to view their Bio, Timeline, Mentions and more.
6. Or you can click the up arrow to quickly follow, unfollow, block, report for spam and even add to a list! 

HootTip Bonus Round: Drag and Drop into Twitter Lists!

Making Twitter lists on your HootSuite contact page? Here’s a quick way to build lists using drag and drop in one step!

Here’s How

1. In your contacts page click the avatar and simply drag it over to the list you want it added to. 

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.”

Author: Ian Walker

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Comments

1. 
   jbplantin November 21, 2011 at 3:56 pm

   Hello, great news. One suggestion, you should allow to sort on different columns (number of followings, number of followers, klout score) ascending or descending

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     Andy Au November 22, 2011 at 10:16 am

     Hi JB,
     Thanks for the idea. Suggest it on our Feedback Channel. From there, users can recommend and vote up features.

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2. 
   henri November 22, 2011 at 11:19 am

   Hi,

   Do you have someone that can mange my account for me?

   Thanks,

   Henri

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3. 
   max November 23, 2011 at 9:52 am

   Is there a way sort a list by Klout score?

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4. 
   Steve December 5, 2011 at 3:10 am

   Managing contacts by putting them into lists sounds like a really good idea – hadn’t considered that. Thanks.

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5. 
   Fawn December 13, 2011 at 10:24 am

   I’m new to HootSuite and noticed there is a Klout score for our Twitter followers but I don’t see one for us. Also, is there a reason there’s no Klout score for our Facebook fans? Lastly, is there a report I can create that tracks our Klout trends through HootSuite?

   Thanks in advance for your help!

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6. 
   jose January 4, 2012 at 11:31 am

   waooo, I didn’t know about these features!!!! this is great!

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7. 
   lj November 4, 2012 at 2:39 pm

   Sorting by klout, followers, etc. would be useful in making lists.

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8. 
   Patty February 12, 2013 at 1:09 pm

   Sorting our 1300 twitter people we follow in different lists. Trying to see if I missed any, which I’m sure I have. When I go to Contacts I don’t see the lists they are each in. So I can take a quick run through. Is there a way to add that to a column when you see all your contacts?

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     Andy Au February 12, 2013 at 3:51 pm

     Hi Patty,
     That functionality doesn’t exist, but it sounds like a great idea. Suggest it on our Feedback Channel.

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