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Add streams, Hootsuite, Twitter

Hide Tweets in Hootsuite

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We’ve been using Slipstream, available here: Slipstream , to hide some user’s tweets on the main Twitter site. Now that we’ve switched to Hootsuite, we had to figure out a way to hide some of the endless tweeters that we follow. Yes, we could simply ‘unfollow’ those people but most of them are average users who took the effort to follow us. We don’t feel right about unfollowing them but we don’t want to read all of their tweets, either. Here’s how we did it.

1. Obviously you have to have a Twitter account and be using Hootsuite, right? In this example, you should probably have made some lists in Twitter. Here’s how to make a list in Twitter: Lists in Twitter .

2. If you don’t follow many accounts on Twitter, make one list for everyone but the person(s) you want to hide. Name that list ‘regulars’ or something similar. On Hootsuite, these accounts will still show up on your Home stream but we’ll show you how to add your other streams to the main panel.

3. Your main Hootsuite window looks like this before you add any streams:

Photo of Hootsuite main panel
No tabs? You won’t see anything here until you add a social account and a stream.

 

4. When you want to actually see something in the panel, click the + sign up at the top, choose your social network and then add a stream. Hootsuite has some default streams as you can see here:

Photo of Hootsuite default streams.
There are the default Twitter streams. ‘Home’ is every tweet from everyone you follow.

 

5. If you have some lists set up, choose the fourth tab from the left. Choose the ‘Regular’ list that you created in Twitter and click ‘Create Stream’. Here are some lists on one of our accounts:

Photo of Hootsuite lists.
You will see your lists on the lists tab.

 

6. Once you add some streams, this is what your Hootsuite main panel will look like:

Photo of populated Hootsuite main panel.
Streams are on tabs. A tab is just a set of streams.

 

7. A tab is a full panel on Hootsuite. It can be made up of several streams from one social network account or streams from different social network accounts. In the photo above, we’ve added streams from two different Twitter accounts.

Hootsuite offers you a full range of options, all for free. We’ve just scratched the surface here. Give it a shot. Let us know what you think.

Thanks for reading!

Hootesuite, Social Networking

Hootsuite – it makes Twitter a whole lot easier to use

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Hootsuite, available here: http://hootsuite.com/ , is Twitter on steroids, in our opinion. Twitter itself has a decent interface but it’s missing a few of the tweaks that Hootsuite offers. We haven’t talked about Twitter very much but you should have a general idea of what it is by now.  We’ll do full posts on Twitter and Hootsuite later. Right now we want to spread the word about Hootsuite and explain a bit about it.

If you don’t use Twitter, you probably don’t understand why you’d need more than one account. Everyone here at Computers Made Simple has at least two Twitter accounts, one for business and one for fun. Some of us have more than two. The point of this is that Hootsuite allows you to link up to five social networking accounts, whether they are all Twitter or a combination of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

There isn’t any way to schedule tweets within Twitter. With Hootsuite you can easily schedule future tweets; even receive an email when the tweet is sent. Why would you want to schedule future tweets? Some Twitter users like to tweet links instead of their own thoughts and words. While we don’t agree with this, it’s common. Hootsuite allows you to collect links, schedule them for prime tweet times and then do something else. Additionally, Twitter users in other areas of the world who want to be noticed in North America, have to schedule tweets or they wouldn’t get any sleep, right?

Here are some of the Hootsuite offerings:

Photo of Hootsuite Apps for Chrome
Lots of app for Google Chrome, the best browser out there.

There are many versions of Hootsuite. Choose the right one for you. We use the Chrome extension and love it. There are apps for mobile devices as well as a full desktop program for Macs.

We’ll do more posts on Hootsuite in the near future but why not give it a shot? The basic version, the one we use, is free. If you’re in business, there are several paid options which help you tune your tweets in order to cultivate an audience.

Thanks for reading!