TweetDeck: A Tool for Twitter Power Users

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If you’re like most people, you’ve found that Twitter can be at times both liberating and confining. It’s easy to get swept up into the Tweet of the Moment. The terrible truth about Twitter is that it can be a gargantuan waste of time.picture-5

But Twitter can also be an extremely powerful tool. All you have to do is harness its power.

Just in the nick of time, along comes TweetDeck to help you do that. TweetDeck is still in Beta (version 0.25b just launched), but it looks as though it’s going to be a very, very helpful tool for Twitter users.

Here’s what TweetDeck allows you to do:

  • Tweet directly from TweetDeck
  • Stay up to date – view all new tweets in real-time
  • Use columns to create your personal dashboard
  • Create Groups to easily follow friends, colleagues or other interest groups
  • Update Facebook and follow your Facebook friends
  • Follow topics in real-time with saved searches
  • View @replies and direct messages and manage your conversations
  • Never miss an important tweet with notifications
  • Share your photos and videos with Twitpic and 12seconds
  • And many more Twitter favorites including Stocktwits, Twitscoop and all the most popular URL shortening services

The basic platform allows TweetDeck users to open a window that has multiple columns. Each user can customize their TweetDeck to their liking. For the 60SecondTwitter account, we’ve set it up into 7 different columns:

  1. All Friends: Allows you to read Tweets from all your followers.
  2. Replies: Allows you to see people who have replied to your Tweets or ReTweeted your Tweets
  3. Direct Messages: Just what it sounds like. DMs from others.
  4. Favorites: Lets you segment out the Tweets from your favorite Twitterers.
  5. Search: Find out what others are saying about you or your brand.
  6. TwitScoop: A Tag Cloud highlighting the most Tweeted keywords.
  7. Facebook Friends Status: Let’s you read updates from your Facebook friends.

If you’re like most people and you’re trying to figure out how to harness the power of Twitter, check out TweetDeck. It’s a terrific tool and will help turn you into a Twitter Power User.

(Interested in following Jamie Turner with the 60 Second Marketer on Twitter? Just click 60SecondTwitter and hit “Follow.”)

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Time Thursday, April 16th, 2009, 6:00 am   |   CategorySocial Marketing, Twitter, Uncategorized  |  RssRSS feed |  CommentRespond  |  TrackbackTrackback

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  • christian campo

    While TweetDeck is cool (and I started with that one two), I find the output pretty screen space consuming. As long as your PC is used for something else than Twitter, I recommend something like Lounge (http://loungeapp.com/) which is what I am using which is available for Mac and iPhone/iPod touch and Nambu (http://www.nambu.com/) again Mac.

    TweetDeck is Adobe Air based so it runs everywhere also on Windows :-).

  • http://www.tomspowertools.com Tom

    Good read – thanks for posting!

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