Having spoken to lots of people about Twitter, I realise that the first impression most people get is of the Twitter website.
If they’ve spoken to someone like me, they’ll have probably looked at my Twitter page, realised how confusing it looks and gone away pretty quickly.
“I don’t get it” they say … “It’s all messy” they say…. “It makes no sense” they say - and do you know what? They’re right!
I don’t understand how anyone manages to cope with Twitter - especially if they ‘follow’ more than a handful of people.
By now, everyone’s heard of Twitter. And if you haven’t, where have you been?
Twitter is the smart “new” gizmo for keeping up to date with everything that’s happening. It’s a microblogging tool that everyone seems to be using for personal, social and business networking. Imagine text messaging across an established network or broadcasting your messages to everyone who subscribes or ‘follows’ you, as it’s known. Tell your friends, colleagues or customers your latest news as it happens and let them read your updates at their leisure.
They say: TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in private beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
This is a really great bit of kit - you can search through your own contacts Tweets or everyone’s Tweets, allows you to queue Tweets until later, create threads from replies (Plurk should start to be worried as this is one of the main advantages they had over Twitter) and more!
