I've been holding off on Thing 8 because I wanted to find a product that included Instagram as part of the sites that are aggregated by the said product. I have ONE friend/family that dropped Facebook for Instagram and I am feeling the need to use Instagram as a way of sharing my daughter's life with him (he lives in California).
In the one aspect where I wanted to succeed, I failed for Thing 8. I tried Hoot Suite and Cloze. I kept going back to HootSuite, Googling about HootSuite, looking for a way to combine everything. It looks like you can POST to Instagram from Hootsuite, but you can't view other people's content from Instagram from HootSuite (another major feature I was looking for).
To be honest, I liked and disliked the HootSuite app - I liked the presentation of information relayed back to me from Facebook on the app. Facebook has screwed up what posts I see on my Touch or Phone vs. a PC with it's new algorithms or whatever system it is using to filter things FOR ME. I did not like the idea of trying to manage my digital life from the app. I felt the website (or do they call it a dashboard?) does a much better job of laying out what HootSuite is trying to manage for you.
That being said, if I DID have a job/career where I was in charge of several media platforms for a library, I WOULD use HootSuite to distribute the message. I like that you can set when and what types of content you want delivered when to social media outlets. In my personal life, I do not need HootSuite. I barely tweet, I hardly use Instagram, and I use Facebook daily. My level of "leveraging" social media does not warrent a product like HootSuite. But maybe someday...:).
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