TweetDeck – Twitter Control Center

TweetDeck has been my Twitter Control Center for several months and now with Version 0.26 it’s even more powerful:

Newest features: 

• Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts - (for you split personality types)
• Sync and Backup - to keep your TweetDeck safe
• Spam button – use this to avoid twitter spam
• iPhone – take all your TweetDeck favorites, groups, columns etc. with you!

Other features:

• Columns -You can display one column or many columns.  I typically keep 10 columns open.

• Groups - View your followers in specific groups, which have their own column.
• Notifications – shows you new updates from peeps you’re following, replies, DMs, or 1 of your groups or searches.

• Facebook – Update Facebook from TweetDeck
• Constant updating – you can adjust the frequency of of updates from “All Friends”, “@Mentions” and “DMs” – no need to manually refresh all the time

• Video – Record, share and watch video clips from within TweetDeck
• Photos - View photo thumbnails directly from TweetDeck
• Short URL -  Shorten a URL without leaving tweetdeck!
• Searches - Do a search on your name and find out what others are saying about you on twitter.  Find out about an event, an organization or a person by searching for a name, keyword or hashtag.
• Saved Searches – Follow topics real-time and save your searches

Visit the TweetDeck blog

Hashtags:

• Hashtag – like tags, just prefix a word with the hash symbol – #: #mac, #iphone or #fb, used to create “groupings” on twitter
• Hashtags.org – check out this site for real-time tracking of Hashtags: Trends, Tags, People, etc.
• Follow - @hashtags on Twitter on twitter
• Use - hashtags in your tweets by preceding your key words with the #, i.e. #socialmedia
• Hashtag Origin - Hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster.

Twitter Fanatics – Check out Loic Le Meur’s Seesmic Desktop for twitter – it’s very good and competes directly with TweetDeck for your attention.  Here’s a video of Loic on the New Seesmic Desktop 0.3 Release

 Resources:

Twitter Cheat Sheet – a 2 page pdf

Twitter For The Tweeple – a 17 page pdf (Getting Started with Twitter)

Using Twitter for Business – a 15 page pdf by John Jantsch

Why You Should be on Twitter – a 33 page pdf by Navin Kabra

A True Beginner’s Guide to Getting The Most Out of Twitter – a 22 page pdf by Sarah J. Austin & Linden A. Mueller

The Twitter Power Guide – a 20 page pdf by Christopher S. Penn

Twitter Tuesday Handout – a 7 page pdf by Phil Johncock

Using TweetDeck – a 5 page pdf (brief guide to TweetDeck)

 

 

 

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