Spent past 2 days manually excluding retweets, to cut down on duplicate posts. Tweetdeck can do it with one click in a column. Wish I had tried it FIRST.
One of our favorite Twitter clients is so good that Twitter itself bought it in 2011. With real-time scrolling, advanced filtering options, and a host of useful features, TweetDeck is the obvious choice for anyone who wants to take Twitter seriously. Here’s how to make sure you’re getting the most out of it.
Source: TweetDeck Tips and Tricks To Master All Things Twitter
Years ago – I mean 7 or 8 years ago now, when I first signed on to Twitter and started playing around with it, I tried out various Twitter clients. This was pre-iPhone, the gateway drug of my current Internetcontin addiction. Tweetdeck was clearly the best on the desktop, and I set up columns based on topic, had multiple accounts handy, et cetera.
Then I started using the iPhone and a mini-iPad to access the internet, almost exclusively. I rarely sit down at my desktop anymore, because my desk isn’t very ergonomic and I came to dislike spending more than a few minutes of required maintenance sitting at my desk. I spend enough time at my work desk in my home office (which is pretty ergo).
I forgot about Tweetdeck, but on a whim looked it up and wham! Remembered that Twitter actually bought it a while back and it’s now accessed as a sub domain from their main site:
http://tweetdeck.twitter.com
It came up on the iPhone, but it’s not that useful on a small screen. On an iPad, it’s pretty decent and it remembered my settings from the last time I used it on my desktop machine. All was familiar, and thanks to the old article I linked, I discovered the powerful filters and settings for reducing the amount of chaff.
WHY DID I FORGET THEE, O TWEETDECK?
Now I’ve got retweets excluded on several columns – not just people I already follow, but on everyone using any hashtag I choose. I need to add one or two newer single-topic accounts that I’ve never used with Tweetdeck; now I can set them up to filter things down to a reasonable volume, too. Also, there’s the ability to schedule tweets, plus the ability to monitor lists, hashtags, and DMs alongside the main timeline. No constant popping back and forth.
This may save my sanity. I spent so much time lately trying to keep up with events, I felt compelled to try to muscle down the volume by brute force. I was up until 3 am last night doing it the hard way, and when I finally did get to sleep, I had two nightmares (very unusual).
Thank you, Tweetdeck. This will help me get a handle on all things Twitter.
