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Hootsuite 'kind-of' introduces Instagram scheduling

Lauren Kate Rawlins
By Lauren Kate Rawlins, ITWeb digital and innovation contributor.
Johannesburg, 05 Aug 2015
Hootsuite will integrate Instagram into its system, allowing users to manage, schedule, and monitor Instagram activity.
Hootsuite will integrate Instagram into its system, allowing users to manage, schedule, and monitor Instagram activity.

Hootsuite will integrate Instagram into its system, allowing users to manage, schedule, and monitor Instagram activity.

Instagram scheduling is one of the company's most requested features; however, the picture-sharing social-platform's terms of use state: "You must not access Instagram's private API by any other means other than the Instagram application itself."

To get around this, Hootsuite will essentially allow users to schedule the posts, but users will still have to log-on at the time and press publish.

"Schedule a month's worth of Throwback Thursday posts in advance, for example, and publish them in just a few taps when the time comes," says the Hootsuite team in a blog post.

"You can also set up streams to monitor your own Instagram posts, your scheduled posts, specific users or hashtags, locations, and more ?all from the same Hootsuite dashboard you use to manage your other social networks."

Instagram is one of the fastest-growing social networks in South Africa and increasingly used by brands to reach a younger audience.

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