HootSuite + Twitter For Social Interaction
Recently, HootSuite’s CEO, Ryan Holmes, announced that his company’s popular Twitter app will expand its horizons. By integrating also with MySpace and Foursquare, HootSuite will add more power for those who need it Business and other heavy users of the HootSuite Twitter app will now have more ways to connect with their friends and colleagues. The integration began with the South by Southwest Interactive Conference for app developers and reviewers before going public.
Even before trying the new expansion, HootSuite integrated with Wordpress and updated the apps for iPhone and Android. Those integrations and updates alone added more power and flexibility to what HootSuite can do for users. Joining forces with Wordpress gives HootSuite a new place to advertise its services, and allows Wordpress users a new tool to communicate with other bloggers. Now, those wishing to respond to a blog post who don’t use Twitter itself can send short replies to the author. No longer would they need to log into an e-mail account or Twitter or other social networking site’s app in order to ask questions of or leave comments for the blog’s author. Iphone and Android app updates made the HootSuite programming more portable and able to be checked by a user who has an interface on one of those devices at times when a computer is not handy.
MySpace users anticipate the integration of HootSuite to their social sphere having a resemblance to its origin on Twitter’s Tweetdeck. For them, HootSuite would likely become the place to access feeds of news and information and update their MySpace status. Thus, HootSuite would bring a user his or her friends’ posts almost as in an instant messaging conversation, and let the friends know who’s on or offline with that network at a given time.
Since Foursquare is a mobile app to begin with, the possibilities stemming from its integration with HootSuite excite mobile users, although it could see some web integration to allow it into desktop computers in the future. Eventually, the Foursquare-HootSuite app could become part of what makes such devices as the iPhone and Android work in connecting to the networks. The enhanced functionality will give users of those devices more communicative power by letting them connect to their social networks more easily. For many users, being able to use one app to connect to all of their social sites, from Twitter to MySpace, both on the computer and cell phone, will enhance the ease with which they make plans and complete projects.
HootSuite expanding from Twitter out into other social networking sites and possibly mobile phone apps will give the users of such programs more power. The power to communicate will make everything more efficient from power meetings to friends getting together after work. Some even speculate that because of its expansion, HootSuite could make itself more useful than Tweetie, Tweetdeck, and Seesmic in the quest to connect people by giving them such a simple way to shout out to others across apps and platforms.
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I think this will be a logical decision given the popularity of foursquare.
That is what it is really all about “The power to communicate”.
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This is a pretty exciting venture, can’t wait to check it out.
Now this looks exicting, keep them coming.
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