Comments on: TwiTip Reader Review: HootSuite

By: Ugarit

Ugarit — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:11:40 +0000

Also if one supplies an incorrect email address for their login one gets the error “The supplied email can not be found”. That’s not secure because now hackers can use their login panel to determine who has an account AND the the user doesn’t have a challenge response test to make sure that a human is logging in and not some brute force application.

I really liked what Hootsuite offered but their lack of security and https is very disappointing and frankly is going to be their undoing.

By: Ugarit

Ugarit — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:06:24 +0000

I dropped Hootsuite because they actually want your passwords for all of your social networks instead of using Oauth and they are not using https. Not safe. I didn’t like the fact that Hootsuite now has the passwords for every single social network I communicate with. If they had used Oauth I could revoke their access more easily.

By: Diane Rayfield

Diane Rayfield — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:05:37 +0000

I think the Hootlet app is the best thing since sliced bread. This allows me to (almost) instantly tweet or schedule a tweet on anything I find interesting across the internet. HootSuite is wonderful!

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:39:57 +0000

Hi Jeff!

I work for the company that created HootSuite and we’d just like to say: Excellent review! Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

To everyone that commented – thank you for your feedback! In response to the comments about the ow.ly links and the ow.ly bar, we’ve released a 2.0 version called the ow.ly social bar and it allows you to opt out of ever seeing the ow.ly social bar if you so choose.

You can read more about this and the other features here: http://blog.hootsuite.com/introducing-owly-social-bar-20-because-sharing-is-caring/

Thanks again folks and all the best,
Kirsten

By: Gabe Diaz

Gabe Diaz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:00:56 +0000

I was a user in it’s BrightKit days but the reliability with ow.ly links being down, is what turned me away. The Hootlet bookmarked is a great feature but if the service is down there’s no point.

I now use Bit.ly along with CoTweet but would return to HootSuite if they became more reliable and removed the bar ontop of links.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:36:25 +0000

Love the HootSuite. Great write-up on it. You covered all the key elements of this awesome tool. Personally, my favorite features are the Hootlet and the ability to allow editors for various accounts.

By: Chris Baskind

Chris Baskind — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:19:49 +0000

I agree that HootSuite offers exceptional functionality. It’s fun and easy to use — and the Hootlet bookmarklet is really quite good. The whole system is great for folks who enjoy using Twitter to share links, but don’t want to clog their stream with long clumps of tweets during their active hours.

On the other hand, I think the Ow.ly integration is fatal. Users absolutely hate it. Beyond the iframe issue, there’s the question of Ow.ly’s durability: Will the links still work a year from now? I prefer to use a better-established service, such as Bit.ly.

Until HootSuite offers some flexibility on this, I won’t be using it. That’s a shame, because it’s really quite well done.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:11:45 +0000

I use hootsuite to manage 3 twitter accts and love it. One Twitter is more personal and ministry oriented (lisajcopen); 1 is for everything related to Invisible Illness Week (invisibleillwk) so just stuff related to invisible illness; the third is for a separate adoption scrapbooking business. It’s easy to post to 1, 2 or all 3 accounts with just a click.

I also use it with ping.fm integration. I was using Ping.fm for about 6 weeks before I found Hootsuite and they had just a week earlier started ping integration so the timing was perfect.

For Invisible Illness Week I am able to go in and do “25 illness facts” in 25 days and post them in advance. I also find it helpful when I am reading a lot of newsletters, etc and want to share facts, links, etc. I’ve found- I can space them out over a week, so I don’t bombard my followers with a bunch of stuff at once.

I love being able to quickly glance at stats and see what is getting retweeted and when, what my post popular links are, and more. The frames, etc dont bug me. If someone avoids clicking on a great link I’ve provided to some content because it has owly, it’s their loss. I also use the Hoot This button which makes it easy to post info I come across when surfing sites.

By: ZuDfunck

ZuDfunck — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:41:20 +0000

Melanie
That reminds me of another issue. When the attraction was Google AdSense on the Frame bar, that was what attracted me to HS. There were sites that blocked the frame like the NYTimes wont allow it nor any Twitter URL’s, Its a simple piece of code to strip the Framed bar and it was to me only a matter of time before everyone would do it.

But you all seem happy with it, so Hoot Hoot! Hooray…

By: Melanie Langenhan

Melanie Langenhan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:41:13 +0000

I absolutely love Hootsuite and use it every day for several accounts. Actually I didn’t know that people wouldn’t click on ow.ly links. Well, I cannot complain about the click rates. The hootlet is a big time saver, although I find many sites that do not work properly (text and link aren’t added into the form). Is this a hootlet issue or does it depend on the programming of the websites? I don’t know.