Posted on Tue, Jan 20, 2009
I think I deserve an award for the crummiest blog post title ever. That’s what happens when one doesn’t update their webste in 2 months. Won’t happen again.
Over the last few months, I’ve been using a rather wonderful Twitter application called Tweetdeck. The application channels your Twitter feed and organizes your information rather nicely – something which the original web host doesn’t do well at all.
For example, at a glance I can follow my friends Tweets (why, oh why, must I say that!), look at all my direct messages and the Tweets of selected individuals. I can group certain folk and send messages to these people only. I can even view the current Twitter buzzwords in real time.
The layout is decent – Tweetdeck separates information into columns which helps with all the above. My only gripe is that they don’t have any preset color schemes. Some people may find it tricky to read white text on a black background with gray hyperlinks. However, if you can be bothered you can customize all of the colors – but you must do this manually.
The technology uses Adobe Air as the platform, which may not be familiar to many users. Downloading the Air client may cause some users to bail out of installing the technology.
I would LOVE to be able to switch between my Twitter profiles. I have two, evolve_research for work and shiftgorden for my music and social stuff, and I’d really like to be able to hotswap the profiles. Incidentally, the Twitterlator Pro app for the iPhone does this perfectly.
Although I have a few concerns, they are outweighed by the applications brilliance. Plus, the software is still in beta, which means that it can only get better once it’s fully released.
Give it a go, tell me what you think 