Why I love TweetDeck
October 18, 2008 //
My last post focused on the negative side of a good tool called Qwitter. My motivation was driven by the urge to provide a little insight to how it ‘could’ be used in the wrong way. It wasn’t my intention to slate the product. So, there are good reasons to use Qwitter, but at least digest my post and remember not to make too many assumptions when people unfollow you.
Now onto a more positive post to balance it out. TweetDeck is my desktop client of choice for Twitter. As you can see from the screen shot above, you can separate your main friends’ feed, replies, groups and direct messages (DMs). I haven’t shown my main feed because I didn’t want to show who wasn’t amongst my ‘Toilet Cleaners group.
The ability to group people is what I love most about this application. Some people create groups for family, friends and colleagues etc. I only have the need for one group, which contains about 25 people; people who I consider as either friends or very interesting people.
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October 19th, 2008
I’m a recent Tweetdeck convert after having been a Twhirl user for sometime now… I *LOVE* how much data I can consume in one go..
It really, really helps with my day to day job as well as with my personal non-work relationships.
Can’t believe it took me so long to make the switch..
Incidentaly, I know you’re an iPhone user so you probably have an app that does Twitter for you already. But, being the Mobile Geek that I am, I couldn’t possible comment without pointing out the quite frankly awesome http://dabr.co.uk which is v new and has recently usurped http://slandr.net in it’s usefulness.
Check it out if you get a chance Sir,
J.
October 20th, 2008
@James - I actually took a look at that site after reading one of your tweets
Although, it was on the laptop so it didn’t really give me a feel for how it would perform on an iPhone.
I haven’t had time to play yet, but would you rate it over an application like Twinkle which allows you to take pictures and upload direct to Twitter?
October 20th, 2008
Well, not being an iPhone user I couldn’t comment on that. But, being a Mobile Web App, I doubt very much that dabr has that content creation functionality…
…However, on a content *consumption* side of things, dabr does automatically show any pictures that are linked to - ie: Flickr/Twitpic links etc…
Additionally, I’d say take another look as @DavidCarrington, the creator, did a lot of work over the weekend tidying the whole thing up.
I always recommend it to those who are still using http://m.twitter.com - iPhone apps are a different class.
October 20th, 2008