Several months ago I joined twitter. Why did I join? Well, my main reason was for the extra entries in cloth diaper giveaways. Once I joined, I wasn't impressed. The basic twitter.com page does not auto update & there is no way to see if someone has replied to a tweet you sent. Even worse, there is no notification that you've received a direct message. I didn't see the point of it & since I don't use a cell phone (gasp, I know I'm so weird), twitter really didn't appeal to me. Then I heard about Tweetdeck.
Tweetdeck is an application that I downloaded for free onto my computer. It runs separately from my browsers & has multiple columns. It auto updates several times per minute. You can customize what columns you want to have & it can run in the background. I have mine set up with 5 columns.
1.All Friends (everyone I'm following)
2.Mentions (replies to my tweets or somebody talking about me)
3.Search #clothdiapers (this is my main addiction on twitter, official chat is Monday nights, but there is almost always cloth diaper chatter going on 24/7)
4.Direct Messages (private messages sent only to me)
5. Facebook Full News Feed (shows status updates for my Facebook friends)
I can reply to specific messages easily & retweet messages with almost no effort. I could publish all my tweets to my Facebook status with Tweetdeck too, but I think my relatives on Facebook would be overloaded.
I can add additional search columns when I want to follow a hashtag (#) topic & simply close it when I'm done. Tweetdeck turns Twitter into a chatroom. Do you need a new addiction? Go to Tweetdeck.com to download it for your computer. I think there is a version for fancy cell phones too that lets you publish your text messages directly to twitter.
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4 comments:
Ah yes, TweetDeck dragged me right into twitter too! I still mainly use it for giveaway entries, it is so much easier to use than Twitter!
I am still not to sure how to use the # feature when people are doing parties etc. Maybe I'll learn that soon!
Happy Thursday!
My tweets are for extra entries too! I'll have to try tweetdeck. Are you able to sched your tweets? I do that with hootsuite. I'm interested in the FB apps of it, too.
I have always felt so left out of give aways, because I never tweet. So youthink this amkes it easier...
Sigh...
I suppose I will have to someime before my kids become teenagers and want to twitter me all the time. I'm totally dreaming here.
When I first joined Twitter, I used Twhirl as my application and I just can't get used to Tweetdeck. I have tried it cause I know everyone loves it, but I just prefer Twhirl. Thanks for participating!
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