How to Create Social Media Streams on Hootsuite

Quick summary

Hootsuite Streams lets you monitor your own social media content across multiple platforms from a single, organized board. Setting up a new stream board takes just a few clicks from the Hootsuite dashboard, giving your team real-time visibility into all connected social accounts.

Steps

1. On the Hootsuite dashboard, go to the left-side panel and click 'More'.
2. Choose 'Streams' from the list of options.
3. Click 'New Board' to proceed.
4. Find 'Monitor My Own Content' and tap the 'Select' button next to it.
5. Tick the checkbox next to each social networking platform you want to add to your board.
6. Select or add the social account you prefer and tap 'Next' — repeat this for all selected platforms.
7. Your social media streams are now created and added to the new Hootsuite board, ready to manage in one place.