In previous posts, I’ve talked about listening on Twitter and various ways to use Twitter search and advanced search to focus in on useful conversations. Now here’s the tool that really makes this social media space much easier to view, use, and manage.
TweetDeck is one of the most popular Twitter clients — and it now reaches into a wide variety of social media networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and more! TweetDeck has lots of feature, but the A-1 outstanding feature is the ability to automatically group your incoming messages. So if you follow 3,000 people, but only have time to keep up with 30 of them, TweetDeck will show you a column of messages from just your inner circle. You can also group messages by keyword or hashtag. Plus it has built-in trending views, so you can get a quick “30,000 foot view” of what topics are hot at any given moment.
TweetDeck is your personal real-time browser, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and more. While there’s a lot of power under the hood, TweetDeck is pretty intuitive. It has tooltip hints when you mouse over the various buttons.
How to use TweetDeck
Easy to learn. … just head over to Kathy Purdy’s great post on this topic. She explains every icons and gives some great examples for how to use the tools.
TweetDeck technical details
TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR desktop application for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, Foursquare, and MySpace. Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It is the most popular Twitter application with a 19% market share as of June 2009, following only the official Twitter.com website with 45.70% share for posting new status updates. It is compatible with several operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. An iPhone version was released on June 19, 2009 and an iPad version was released in May 2010 as well. A beta version for Android was released on August 12, 2010.
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