Comments on: How do you read Twitter?

By: Facebook Username or Twitter Handle? | Bill Cammack

Facebook Username or Twitter Handle? | Bill Cammack — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:41:31 +0000

[...] to my Twitter page is to click “Follow”. After that, they’ll be following me in whatever app they choose, so my Twitter handle is now worthless to me as a “home [...]

By: My Social Nightmare | Bill Cammack

My Social Nightmare | Bill Cammack — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:15:52 +0000

[...] there’s a change in how @replies work on Twitter. The problem with this is that depending on how you set up your interactions with these apps, these sudden changes could jack up your entire content delivery scheme and send you back to the [...]

By: Bill Cammack

Bill Cammack — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:48:39 +0000

I ended up taking Joe’s tip and using TweetDeck to set up something that looks similar to Steve’s “Social Media Desktop”. I have my stream for all of the people I’m following, my stream for the group of people I particularly want to hear from during the day, @replies, Direct Messages and I still have space for two search streams if I use “Narrow Columns” on my 1680-wide screen.

The best part is that I can clear an entire column. Once I’ve read/responded/deleted a Direct Message, it’s off the list. Using my hot corners, I can see literally in one second whether my @replies or DM streams have any new posts. I drag the cursor to the corner that I’ve set up to make all the windows on the desktop separate, and TweetDeck appears either with columns that are empty like I left them or have posts in them. No posts, I’m back to the action. Posts, I click on the small TD window and look at them.

I currently have the polling set @ 2 minutes for all three (all, @replies, DMs, for 90% of the API), because I don’t check it more often than every two minutes.

By: Bill Cammack

Bill Cammack — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:49:56 +0000

WOW! haha Didn’t know that there were so many of these apps based on Twitter. I supposed it’s like different versions of cell phones.

I check people’s pages also before adding them after I get the notification that someone’s followed me. As long as someone seems like they’re doing something intelligent or TRYING to do something intelligent, I’ll most likely follow them, but they won’t be in my “Listen” stream in TweetDeck.

I’ve only had a couple of issues with TweetDeck, such as it not knowing I was being followed by a friend of mine and thus not letting me DM them, but when I went to the Twiiter page in my browser, I had the “message” link, and did it from there. Other than that, I find it to be a good way to keep everything organized and I take a look at it now and then to see if anything’s new.

Thanks for the tips, Soulpowr! :D

By: Soulpowr

Soulpowr — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:55:41 +0000

I generally read the whole board in the morning with tweetdeck. I’ll check it again around mid day and early evening from itweet, tweetvisor or twitterberry. If there’s an “event” going on like the President speaking I’ll use tweetgrid to do multiple searches. No matter the app, I’m looking for information that falls under the areas I’m interested in, talk to people that I usually correspond with, engage folks I haven’t corresponded with and share info that caught my eye and may be of value to someone else.

As for followers and follow backs. I tried to follow everyone but it doesn’t work. Spammers are hitting hard and I did quite a bit of ranting about that (and blocking them) yesterday. Besides, I like to get a feel for whose following me by checking out their site and latest tweets.