1/25/2024 0 Comments Tweetdeck android review![]() Dragging columns works in both MetroTwit and Seesmic. You can’t just grab the top of the column and drag it to where you want it to be like you would expect. Rearranging columns is silly – you have to click little arrow buttons to move columns right or left one position.Any more than that and you have to start scrolling horizontally. This means that you have a maximum of six columns on a 1920×1200 screen if the window is maximized (and you can’t see all of the sixth column). You can follow/unfollow people right from the interface and even modify Twitter lists.I like the little whistling sound it makes for notifications.Easy to click on a user or tweet and jump to it in a browser if you want to.Pops up a little window for images from twitpic, yfrog, lockerz, and others, as well as for youtube videos.There are versions for Windows, Android, and iPhone.The colour scheme is nice – dark background (but not too dark) with white text.This makes it easy to ignore useless Foursquare tweets. A global filter hides tweets you don’t want to see based on hashtags, other content, user, or application.I occasionally updated my Facebook status through Tweetdeck, but only when I wanted to set my status to something and tweet it at the same time, which was rare. It handles multiple Twitter accounts and you can add accounts from Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Google Buzz (why?) as well. ![]() Tweetdeck is the first Twitter application that I used, and I used it for about a year so it’s the one I’m most familiar with. Tweetdeck and Seesmic also have web versions that allow you to do much the same things as the desktop apps, but through a web interface so there’s nothing to install. For each one, advantages/drawbacks are ordered roughly in order of importance to me. tweeting from multiple accounts, trending topics, Foursquare, LinkedIn, etc.) so I can’t comment on those. ![]() Note that there are lots of options in both Twitter and these applications that I never use (eg. I tried three of the most popular such applications: Tweetdeck (now owned by Twitter itself), MetroTwit, and Seesmic, and made some notes on each. This makes having a conversation with someone on Twitter possible, where replies to you from others don’t get lost in the deluge of tweets. You can also add a column for direct messages or mentions so those are easy to see. Most allow you to separate your stream into multiple columns so you can put the people you’re following into various groups for example, I have a group with techie people ( Scott Hanselman, Joel Spolsky, Leo Laporte, and the like), another group with people I’ve “met” online through my interest in pro lacrosse, another one for other sports people ( Bruce Arthur, Dave Hodge, Down Goes Brown), and so on. Luckily there are numerous applications out there designed to make this easier. If you follow lots of people (I follow a little over 300), one single stream of tweets is just too much, and trying to keep track of conversations or random people mentioning you is next to impossible. Twitter is one of the most popular web services anywhere, but once you become fairly active on it, I find the web site itself is impossible to use. ![]()
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