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Watch This: Hootsuite staffers read mean tweets

Old dashboard design elicits backlash on Twitter from annoyed users

Since Jimmy Kimmel’s “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” segment exploded in popularity, the concept has turned into something of a format.

In the past two weeks, The Montreal Canadiens and Hootsuite have both posted “mean tweet” videos. Hootsuite, for instance, celebrates the new design of its dashboard, which has long had a web 1.0 look, with a video that includes CEO Ryan Holmes reading a cuss-filled tweeted about his “piece of s**t” user interface.

Our personal favourite: Hootsuite senior designer, Helen Park, agreeing the dashboard “looks like crap.”

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