Comments on: What are the Best Free Tools to Schedule Tweets and Facebook Posts When You Travel?

By: Micki Kosman

Micki Kosman — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:20:18 +0000

In reply to Waegook Tom. Thanks for the input, Tom, very helpful. HootSuite seems to be a tool that you either love or hate, there doesn't seem to be a lot of in between. I schedule a lot of Tweets, and I've never had a Tweet disappear through HootSuite, though I have heard other folks mention the problem. For ease of use and reliability, I really love Buffer - it's just so intuitive. For anyone having trouble with HootSuite not sending scheduled Tweets, try this: In HootSuite, go to Publisher > Past Scheduled. Click a message in red; these are Tweets that HootSuite had trouble sending. For each unsent message, there should be an error message that displays why it wasn't sent.

By: Waegook Tom

Waegook Tom — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:18:03 +0000

I can’t agree with HootSuite. They’ve had bugs on that site that they have known about for over TWO YEARS (scheduled Tweets disappear) that they know about and haven’t resolved. They also never reply when you go to them with any problems. I use TweetDeck – much easier to use and no issues as big as HootSuite.

By: Micki Kosman

Micki Kosman — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:45:36 +0000

In reply to Spencer. Agreed. But if SocialBro and HootSuite rolled their apps together I may never leave the computer :)

By: Spencer

Spencer — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:59:09 +0000

I swear by Hootsuite. I find it fantastic to use.

By: Micki Kosman

Micki Kosman — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:32:56 +0000

In reply to Carolyn @ Wonder of Tech. Hi Carolyn, Love the Google+ integration. I'm still very much on the fence with G+. Think it's great for some fields (like photography), but I'm still hearing crickets.

By: Carolyn @ Wonder of Tech

Carolyn @ Wonder of Tech — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:39:05 +0000

Great overview of social media scheduling services. I’m a big fan of Hoot Suite as well. They have recently added the ability to post to Google Plus pages as well.

By: Micki Kosman

Micki Kosman — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:02:01 +0000

In reply to Violeta.

Hi Violeta,
Networked blogs is useful for automatically posting things. I find that I like finer control, so I don’t do a lot of autoupdates. I don’t get a lot of people reading my posts on Facebook unless I manually put up a big photo from the post, and then a link to the post.
HootSuite’s really useful if you have more than one Twitter account, or if you want to monitor hashtags.

By: Violeta

Violeta — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:52:08 +0000

This is very useful. I use the Networked Blogs app for posting on my Facebook page and I use auto posting on Twitter from Feedburner, however your solutions give more flexibility, so I’m definitely thinking to try them.

By: Micki Kosman

Micki Kosman — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:58:49 +0000

In reply to Brian. HootSuite's awesome. I'm still finding little features. Love that it's free, too.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 03:40:03 +0000

I really like hootsuite too. Seems like it will do just about anything, and do it with ease. Thanks for the rather lengthy review.