2. We use Hootsuite to manage all our social media accounts. It means you can
write one message and select which accounts you would like to post it to.
And don’t worry it doesn’t cost a thing for a basic account!
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4. What do these icons mean??
Retweet: you can re-post a particular
Reply: you can respond to a tweet for your own followers to see. If you
specific tweet and you do this the tweet will start with ‘RT’ which
response will be attached as a shows your followers that you have
‘conversation’ to the original retweeted it from somebody else.
post.
Direct message:
Reply all: you
you can privately
can tweet all
message someone
the people
about a specific
mentioned in a
tweet
particular
tweet.
Favourite: If you favourite a tweet Send to Ignore the last to they are
it means it will be saved in your email: will for Pro account users.
‘favourites' folder on your twitter forward the
account. To view your favourites specific tweet
you need to log directly into to your email
twitter.com
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5. How to post on Hootsuite
When you click on the ‘compose a message...’ box, to opens out so you can
write your post.
(Don’t forget that you can only write in a 140 characters for twitter otherwise it will truncate your post.
But if you are not posting to Twitter then you can write as much as you like!)
Hootsuite is great if you want to add a link to a post. You copy the link into the
box and press ‘shrink’. It will make your link a lot shorter, meaning you have
more characters spare for what you want to say.
You can also add attachments, locations and schedule your tweet to be posted
on a specific day at a specific time!
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6. How to post on Hootsuite (cont.)
Once you have written your post, click on the ‘Click to select your profile box...’
A drop down list will appear of all your social media accounts, and you can
choose one or more to send the post to.
Then all you need to do is press ‘Send Now’ and your post will be automatically
sent to the accounts you have chosen.
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Notes de l'éditeur
This is the Hootsuite dashboard... It is made up of all your social media streams. If you look at the arrows they are pointing at different streams, i.e. My twitter feed, UKCC facebook group etc... Similar to tabs on your internet browser. You can have as many of these as you like.We are currently looking at my Twitter stream. 1. The first column is all the tweets of the people I follow on TwitterIs all the tweets that have mentioned me - @millwardholly All the tweets I have sent Any tweets that have been directly sent to me, this means they are like a private message, others are not able to see these tweetsThese icons on the left hand side are you specific hootsuite settings. We are not going to worry about that today.