![]() This could be keywords, hashtags, usernames, etc. Search is a column where you can add in search criteria, and it will produce a live feed from it.Notifications is a column of informative things about when people like, follow, or mention you.This could also be a column of your own tweets (I’ll mention why below). User is a column of all tweets from some user.This is usually an algorithm-based selection of tweets from people you follow. ![]() Home is your main home feed, like if you went to.Click on the + icon on the far left to see what new columns you can add: While these 4 columns could do you just nicely, there’s a lot more power to Tweetdeck than is set up currently. One or more of these may be empty based on what you’ve done with your account before now. Once logged in, you should get this lovely intro screen:Ĭlosing that, you should now have a screen with 4 default columns: Your home feed, your notifications, your direct messages, and activity. For this blog post, I’ll set it up using my account, which I haven’t really used before. Head over to and sign in with your Twitter username and password. After I explain how this is set up, I’m certain many readers will want to make the switch! Getting Started with Tweetdeck And I’ll admit, to the untrained eye it probably is. Now, it may look like a huge mess to you. I’ve been using Tweetdeck for a couple of years now and it grows on me more and more. It’s also easy to use multiple accounts with it. I also find it easier to see likes, follows, and notifications. It lets you not only see tweets in real time, but organize them into columns of tweets that you can track easier. It’s nearly impossible to do a good job of keeping up with everything. This built up to where I now have a firehose of tweets that show up on my home page. When I started going to conferences and trying to connect with people, tweet about talks, and just generally use Twitter more, I got more followers and more people I followed. I had a bit of a timeline, but nothing really amazing. I followed a few friends and a few more famous people. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Tweetdeck, start customizing it to work for you, and offer some ways to make Twitter more efficient and organized for you. You love organization, and find Twitter not organized at all.You have multiple accounts and want to use them all in the same interface.You follow a large number of people and get overwhelmed with the amount of activity.You want to have an easier way to hold conversations over Twitter.You find the interface slow or not that easy to use.Tweetdeck is a web app written by Twitter that lets you read through your feeds in a more organized way, as well as lets you engage easier with people. That, my friends, is how I organize Twitter so it makes logical sense to me, and is how I manage to keep up with so many conversations and pieces of information. And sometimes they’ve seen this screen and told me “Whoa! What is that mess?” People have asked me a lot on how I can keep up with Twitter. Organizing Your Twitter Timeline with Tweetdeck
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