Comments on: Hootsuite Can Pay Me $5.99 A Month To Stop Reading This https://thomaslarock.com/2011/07/hootsuite-can-pay-me-5-99-a-month-to-stop-reading-this/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: pontifexa https://thomaslarock.com/2011/07/hootsuite-can-pay-me-5-99-a-month-to-stop-reading-this/#comment-8101 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:57:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6470#comment-8101 In reply to ThomasLaRock.

My annoyance is with the casual attitude towards extortion and protection money. I don’t give a rat’s about Hootsuite, and I completely agree with your points about their low-life handling of the matter. Just not your choice of metaphors.

]]> By: ThomasLaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2011/07/hootsuite-can-pay-me-5-99-a-month-to-stop-reading-this/#comment-8099 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 02:06:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6470#comment-8099 In reply to pontifexa.

Sorry, it’s been two years and you are still annoyed that I don’t use Hootsuite? Or are you annoyed with the definition of extortion and how I applied it here to Hootsuite?

No, I did not suffer from a series of unfortunate accidents. So perhaps the use of “protection money” is really not the right context here.

But being told that I need to pay money to stop seeing ads because Twitter is injecting them into my stream? That’s lying, pure and simple.

And I don’t need to use Hootsuite. And neither does anyone else.

]]> By: pontifexa https://thomaslarock.com/2011/07/hootsuite-can-pay-me-5-99-a-month-to-stop-reading-this/#comment-8098 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:12:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6470#comment-8098 In reply to Thomas LaRock.

Did HootSuite come round your house after you declined to pay them? Did anyone in your family suffer mysterious accidents? Did this blog burn to the ground, with you sleeping upstairs? If not, it’s not the same as refusing to pay protection money.

(two years late and still annoyed)

]]> By: Mark Harby https://thomaslarock.com/2011/07/hootsuite-can-pay-me-5-99-a-month-to-stop-reading-this/#comment-6896 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:55:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6470#comment-6896 Love the tone, I get labelled as a grumpy old git for worrying about where all this is headed.
Let us know if the google adventure pays off.

]]> By: John G. https://thomaslarock.com/2011/07/hootsuite-can-pay-me-5-99-a-month-to-stop-reading-this/#comment-6706 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:55:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6470#comment-6706 I ended up to do manual posting instead of having Hootsuite injects ads all over my Twitter and Google+ posts. 

]]> By: SQLSophist https://thomaslarock.com/2011/07/hootsuite-can-pay-me-5-99-a-month-to-stop-reading-this/#comment-6605 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:43:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6470#comment-6605 For real, frustration with Hootsuite put me off twitter altogether for a while. Now trying again with Tweetdeck, as I decided I don’t care about integrating accounts other than twitter.

]]> By: Addie Nonki https://thomaslarock.com/2011/07/hootsuite-can-pay-me-5-99-a-month-to-stop-reading-this/#comment-6513 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:23:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=6470#comment-6513 I quit using hootsuite because of the ads. I’m using tweetdeck now and i’m happy with it. 

any other apps available?

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