Ever try to follow a #hashtag chat and get annoyed by certain folks posting irrelevant tweets that muck up the stream?
Tweetdeck now offers a way for you to wash that junk right out of your feed, with column filters.
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Have most people on Twitter been naughty or nice? You’ll have to ask Santa for that information.
But Hootsuite’s Holiday Command Center can offer insight into how many people are tweeting about the holidays, and their sentiment about the holidays and their shopping experiences.
We’ll accept that as a close second.
It’s always been a favourite here at AllTwitter, and social media dashboard HootSuite continues to grow at an astonishing pace.
The platform is celebrating its five millionth signup – which represents amazing growth of one million new users in no time at all – and users across all of HootSuite’s social networks and applications have now sent a combined 1.3 billion messages in 20 languages around the world.
HootSuite, the social media management system, has acquired Seesmic, who were innovators in mobile, desktop and web applications for social media, for an undisclosed amount.
Seesmic chief executive Loic Le Meur had to lay off half of his staff back in March, and this buyout from HootSuite is partially a talent acquisition for the remaining roster. Users of Seesmic software will be slowly ported over to HootSuite, who say that this buyout will “further reinforce HootSuite’s position in the upper left quadrant of the Twitter Partner graph”.
A lot has been written about Twitter’s latest developer guidelines, which outlines the types of third-party apps the company supports, and those it wants to eliminate.
Called out as being an example of an app the company approved of in its new guidelines was HootSuite, the enterprise-focused social media management tool. And now we know why: Twitter and HootSuite are teaming up to begin selling ads to 30,000 HootSuite Pro customers.
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Ever feel overwhelmed popping around from platform to platform to post content and interact with followers? Sure you do.
Well, HootSuite just made your life easier by adding the ability to manage Google+ pages to its Twitteriffic dashboard.
Check. It. Out.
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If you’re a fan of autoscheduling your tweets, a la Buffer (and you should be, young ninja), you’re going to go bananas over the new HootSuite autoscheduling option.
Oh, and you can now scroll and link to tweets from TweetDeck. Just smile politely and read on.
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Adding to the many offerings already available in its App Directory, including Youtube, Tumblr and Flickr, HootSuite now offers four new integrated services:
Twitter is all about personalization, accountability, transparency… everything that automation isn’t. Still, there are some cases where automating part of your Twitter account is actually beneficial – as long as you know when and what to automate.
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