Comments on: Review of Hummingbird Twitter Automation Software – 7 Time Savers

By: Travis Campbell

Travis Campbell — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:11:00 +0000

Sorry to hear of your hardship with the new owners. The product ran it’s course, and as you can see with the note on the top of the post (August 2010), we are no longer recommending hummingbird. Let us know if we can help further.

By: Unhappyuser007

Unhappyuser007 — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:35:00 +0000

I purchased Hummingbird, like many other people believing that the software was from a reputable company.

However, once the purchase had gone through, the trouble started immediately. Firstly it took over 3 days to get the license, during which time I tried to contact the owners (which was very difficult as their support mails don’t work and trying to find their support details is near impossible) without much success. Eventually I received the license form them, only to realise that it does not work on a mac, which is what I use at home.

I then requested a refund from them using PayPal (where I purchased from), and after nearly a month of emails and requests, PayPal completed the claim in favour of hummingbird (Jounce) stating that “The item is ineligible for PayPal Buyer Protection because it is intangible”. What a crock of BS!

The thing about this software company (Jounce) is that the attitude and rudeness of the people at Jounce is unbelievable, they even stated that I should run a “virtual machine” on my Mac to make it work! How dumb is that… why do you think I bought a Mac (NOT a Windows PC) in the first place? And furthermore, why should I have to? As far as I am concerned the software IS SIGNIFICANTLY NOT AS DESCRIBED. Their support system is basically NON EXISTANT, and as many people have come to realise (in this and many other blogs), there any many alternatives to Hummingbird, and nearly all of them either free or a lot cheaper than HB, and their functionality is far better than Hummingbird.

So after all my hassles with them, and them not refunding my money, I still cannot use the software that I don’t want. After everything, I even installed it on a Windows PC, only to find out that the license they gave me is not valid anymore (surprise, surprise). So I have paid $69 for Hummingbird that I cannot use at home because I have a Mac, and after all they have suspended my license anyway! Would you call this even remotely ethical?

My advice to anybody thinking about purchasing hummingbird is the following:

DO NOT BUY IT!
YOU WILL BE RIPPED OFF ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!

There are many alternatives out there and I will use all my comment and blogging ability to ruin their name!

By: Bob36

Bob36 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:17:00 +0000

Hummingbird was a complete waste of my money. It does nothing but follow random people on your page. I paid $50 for a mass clicking program. What a pile of garbage.

I bought tweet adder the next day, what a difference. That rocks!

By: eazol

eazol — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:35:00 +0000

this is a great site full of great content

By: JJ

JJ — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:12:11 +0000

How do you know this if your Direct Messaging capability is limited to 99 interactions
per attempt. You should not be so cavalier in your attitude if you don't know what you
are talking about.

By: JJ

JJ — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:12:11 +0000

How do you know this if your Direct Messaging capability is limited to 99 interactions
per attempt. You should not be so cavalier in your attitude if you don't know what you
are talking about.

By: Travis Campbell

Travis Campbell — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:34:17 +0000

Aaron- I wish you had included more info, so we know you are for real (get a lot of spam here). Perhaps someone @mesiablabs or @kevinmesiab will respond to your comment.

By: Bill Wynne

Bill Wynne — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:08:23 +0000

I decided personally to use Tweet Adder and have not had any problems.

By: aaron

aaron — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:50:03 +0000

I bought this hummig bird 2 and had nothing but problems. I called for suport and was told that all the problems with the api was just how it worked.Then he told me to F off.If you are reading this dont buy.

By: Travis Campbell

Travis Campbell — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:10:22 +0000

I would encourage you to contact them directly, they have a customer support forum, which is usually pretty active. Hope that helps!