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May 17, 2012
23:34 • 1 year ago
Tags: hootsuite social media social media managers services twitter facebook hootsuite valuation ryan holmes
This will be one of the biggest years for our company ever. We have some pretty aggressive projections, and we’ve been beating those projections month after month.
HootSuite co-founder Ryan Holmes • Discussing his social media company, which recently closed out a $50 million investment round and may be on the way to a half-billion valuation — which is extremely impressive for what’s effectively a social media management company. It’s easy to see why, though: The company manages to hit the low end of the market (96 percent of its users pay nothing) and the high end (some companies pay $100,000 a month for services) pretty effectively. While Holmes has had many offers to sell, he’d prefer to keep his business independent and perhaps even give Vancouver, where it’s based, a tech sector or its own. Pretty cool.
March 14, 2012
08:35 • 1 year ago
Tags: sxsw hootsuite hootbus advertising wince
Everything you need to know about the culture at SXSW, in one image. (photo by Geoffrey A. Fowler/The Wall Street Journal)

Everything you need to know about the culture at SXSW, in one image. (photo by Geoffrey A. Fowler/The Wall Street Journal)

November 9, 2011
10:25 • 1 year ago
Tags: tumblr hootsuite sweet things cool hootsuite on Tumblr social media
Hootsuite adds Tumblr integration: But only (for now) with Pro accounts, and as part of its App Directory. We’re trying it out now. Look at us!

Hootsuite adds Tumblr integration: But only (for now) with Pro accounts, and as part of its App Directory. We’re trying it out now. Look at us!

April 22, 2011
11:19 • 2 years ago
Tags: amazon amazon ec2 amazon cloud services ec2 cloud services hootsuite reddit

Was yesterday's mess with Amazon EC2 enough to make you question cloud computing?

Some sites, like HootSuite, were forced to leave users stranded and shortened links unclickable (though they’re back up). And Reddit’s still kinda down, except for paid users, after all this. Yesterday was a really tough day for the “cloud” — loaded with the kind of problems services like Amazon’s EC2 weren’t supposed to have. Does something like this make you wary of using the companies involved for information? Will it make you avoid using cloud services? Or is it just a blip?

October 8, 2010
15:11 • 2 years ago

Thanks, Libya: Bit.ly links could become a thing.ly of the past.ly

Tags: bit.ly HootSuite ht.ly Libya mitt.ly not thought through ow.ly

  • standing out, clever.ly A popular way to make your name stand out nowadays is to have the domain end in .ly, something hugely popular Twitter-centric services such as Bit.ly and Hootsuite (though its ow.ly and ht.ly services) have taken advantage of. The two-letter length also helps. Oh yeah, Mitt Romney uses it for his mitt.ly domain.
  • unfortunate.ly for themPerhaps this wasn’t thought through all the way, because the .ly domain is owned by Libya, a country not exactly known for its sparkling human rights record. And the country is upset about all the NSFW links that get shared on the services, putting entire business models in danger. Uh-oh. source

 

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