How Did I Live Without TweetDeck?

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How Did I Live Without TweetDeck?

I’ve decided to take my obsessive compulsive relationship with my Twitter community to the next level tonight by installing TweetDeck, and after a little help from @stephenkruiser I’m feeling really good about that decision.

One could say that I fell head over feet for Twitter at our very first meeting. I like to think of it as a little Bloomsbury Group that lives in my phone, amusing and educating me throughout the day. I started about a year ago, following my Wilshire & Washington co-host, Teresa Valdez Klein, and my guilty pleasure, Julia Allison. Now I’m following about 175 people, and over the last 2-3 months it’s been most unpleasant trying to keep up with the organic flow of buzzing conversations. (Love ya, Jason Calacanis, but there’s gotta be some power to the regular everyday tweeple too!)

My journalist pals may concur: Your twitter feed is just like watching the Associated Press wire stories trickle in throughout the day, except better because it’s concise and expandable from a more robust variety of sources. The community functions also blend the best of my favorite communication tools: texting, direct messaging and content sharing. It’s a beautiful thing, and is quickly becoming my preferred method of consuming information. (Here’s hoping Evan finds a sustainable revenue model ASAP. *fingers crossed*)

The TweetDeck application will allow me to organize my feed in groups (thus far: Essentials, Twitterati, Republicans, Randoms), conduct searches and shorten my URLs without changing browsers. I don’t know why it took me so long to do it; I suppose I just wanted my community to grow naturally, despite @guykawasaki’s great advice on becoming a twitter star. Becoming a SuperUser may be every twitterholic’s dream and I do look to thought leaders for important information, but I’d rather have quality connections than a huge platform. As always, one has to establish credibility offline to earn it online.

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One comment for “How Did I Live Without TweetDeck?”

i agree. tweetdeck has changed my life. i’ve been using it for months, and it’s a dashboard into my information universe. i only wish it allowed for you to be logged in to multiple accounts

that is the second most popular feature request

http://tweetdeck.uservoice.com/

Posted by Baratunde Thurston | January 14, 2009, 9:00 pm

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