Hootsuite: Hootsuite Crashes and Unusable Experience
Hootsuite's social media tools are plagued by frequent crashes, rendering the platform largely unusable for users. Many report that the application fails to load, misses scheduled posts, and becomes completely non-functional after updates.
8 different people have complained about this since 28 Jan 2012, most recently on 16 Apr 2025.
No new posts for 556 days. This may have been fixed, or people stopped writing about it — the evidence below is from before 16 Apr 2025.
- “Worked for a few weeks then it just constantly crashes, misses posts being scheduled.”
- “Hootsuite - Social Media Tools — Crashes.”
- “Hootsuite - Social Media Tools — Crash Crash Crash Crash.”
8 people in 8 posts across 1 source · 0 in the last 30 days, 0 in the 30 before
The pain
shares of 7 peopleWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 8 people using Hootsuite - Social Media Tools
- What goes wrong
- App crashes immediately upon opening7 people · 100%
- Since
- 28 Jan 2012 → 16 Apr 2025
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Hootsuite - Social Media Tools
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 13% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint788%
- Request113%
Sources
8 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…l Media Tools — Hopeless The app used to be great. Now doesn't work. Won't load up and keeps crashing.
Doesn't workHootsuite - Social Media Tools — Was good, now constantly crashing Worked for a few weeks then it just constantly crashes, misses posts being scheduled. Really disappointed, has put me off paying for the pro subscription :(
…en without crashing in latest update, which I was forced to download. Completely unusable. Please fix.
Hootsuite - Social Media Tools — Crashes Crashed twice in the first 5 minutes. Gave some technical error when I tried to add twitter. So far is doing nothing for me.
Hootsuite - Social Media Tools — Crash Crash Crash Crash Constantly crashing. Drives me mad. That aside, functionally a great twitter client.
Market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
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Why did it move?
Score 19.1 → 19.2 · 25 Oct 2026, 15:00 → 16:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Hootsuite Crashes and Unusable Experience a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 8 different people described it independently, in 8 mentions, the earliest from 28 Jan 2012 and the most recent from 16 Apr 2025. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Status: quiet — no new posts in the last 60 days. 0 people raised it in the last 30 days and 0 in the 30 days before; the status compares its share of everything collected from the same source, so collecting more or less cannot create a trend.
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