The Scoop:
Changes to our plan offerings – We are saying goodbye to the Hootsuite Free plan. If you’re a Free plan customer, you’ll need to upgrade to a Professional plan to continue using Hootsuite. We’ll begin restricting Free accounts that haven’t upgraded on March 31, 2023. With the Free plan, you were limited to only being able to manage 2 social accounts and schedule up to 5 posts. If you choose to switch to the Professional plan, you can manage up to 10 social accounts and schedule an unlimited number of posts! Take a look at our plan offerings.
How we can help you with this transition:
You are important to us and we’d love for you to stay with us as we grow. Here are some of the options we can help you with:
Change your plan:
Keep your social running smoothly (and do a LOT more) with one of our paid plans! Learn more about our plan offerings. To change your plan, do the following:
Go to My profile, and then select Upgrade my plan:
Hootsuite main navigation with My profile selected and the plan and account settings highlighted.
Permanently delete your Hootsuite Free account:
If you leave us now, you’ll take away the biggest part of us. We have great plans for Hootsuite and would love for you to stay and grow with us. If you want to permanently delete your account, you can do so. Know that if you delete your account, you will lose access to Hootsuite, your scheduled content will be permanently deleted, and the email associated with that account cannot be used for a future Hootsuite account. Deleting your account takes effect immediately and accounts are not recoverable.
Web or Mobile:
Go to My profile, and then select Account settings, preferences, and billing. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and select Account Removal. Account and settings page with account removal option highlighted.
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Ken Pierce Media Thoughts: As a provider of online entertainment and being not only in command of three of my own websites but serving as a bit of a creative counsel to several others I felt that sharing this kind of news was important and that’s another part of having the editorial space here on Ken Pierce Media. So truth be told, while I liked the free tier of the Hootsuite product for my own needs on PiercingMetal.com, I never found it to be something that I needed the pay to use level. That being said I will be one of the likely many who will be moving on from this product and I wish them well going forward. If you are in the same mindset as I am its really important that you delete the account before the turnover since you might not be able to afterwards and you will still have information on their servers. With the constant changes to social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter I’d rather spend the extra time curating them on my own as opposed to doing so from a singular mechanism but that’s just me. What do you readers on the tech side think about this news? Will you be looking to pay for a monthly plan for your own home on the web or will you be zapping it like we are. Chime in down below in the comments and I will now let you get back to the usual course of business here.
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