Why Hootsuite is BAD for Facebook Pages and is KILLING the Ability for Your Messages to go Viral
8.26.10 UPDATE
The people spoke, and Hootsuite listened!! Now when you post a link within Hootsuite that you want to send to your Facebook Page, not only does the “Share” button now appear, but prior to posting, Hootsuite allows you to select which image you want to appear with your link, the name of the link and the description just as though you were posting right on your Facebook Page – love this. Thanks for making these great improvements, Hootsuite:-)
A few posts ago we mentioned that Hootsuite is one of our favorite social networking tools- We’d like to clarify that statement. While we highly recommend Hootsuite for posting to Twitter, we don’t recommend it for posting to Facebook Pages. Why? Because the beauty of Facebook posts are their ability to go viral with the “Share” button.
You want people to be able to share your posts with their networks and so on so that your brand and your messages spread throughout the web. Did you notice when you post from Hootsuite to your page, there is not a “Share” option? No good for you.
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