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Social Media Rockstar: How To Follow More People Without Losing Your Friends

  • ApothecaryJeri · 8 months ago
    Good post...Thank you.

    There's also a really easy way to add new people to your group on twitter with out going thru your whole list..which can take a lot of your time & toll on your eyes.

    When using Tweetdeck.. hover over your friends picture or avatar ...in the lower right hand corner of the picture...the "gear symbol" will appear..it says "other actions" Click on that....
    Scroll down to "add to group"
    Pick your group!
    I've found this to be an invaluable tool, time saver & much more spontaneous than clicking on the title of the group and editing it that way.

    Thanks for all the good ideas....and quality posts.
    Blessings..In Peace
    Jeri
  • @Halibutron · 7 months ago
    Great, @ApothecaryJeri !

    Not sure if this has been an incremental addition to TweetDeck since your comment:
    Instead of mousing through the gear submenu, one can now just click on the little [+] right next to the user's name at the bottom of their tweets, to add them to one o more of your groups.

    Hal
  • TommyofRoguestar · 9 months ago
    Hey thanks for the wonderful post Brett. I've been meaning to download tweetdeck for the past week or so and this just made me want to go do it. Also I'm going to find you on FB now.
  • Brett Borders · 9 months ago
    Tommy,

    Tweetdeck is awesome. You'll wonder how you were able to communicate without it.
  • John Samuel · 9 months ago
    I am using Groups in TweetDeck to see the updates from my friends for a long time. But I moved the columns for easier Navigation. Thanks for the details. Since I follow a lot of people, but at the same time, I also want to keep in constant touch with my friends, I have been using TweetDeck to follow my friends.
  • Brett Borders · 9 months ago
    John Samuel,

    Tweetdeck is an awesome program but it's a little cryptic. Glad to be of assistance.
  • Harry · 9 months ago
    Great, high quality post as always! Thanks for the
    valuable information.
  • Brett Borders · 9 months ago
    Get yourself TweetDeck, Harry and see you on the Twitterside!
  • Herman Smith · 9 months ago
    Great info, thanks!
  • Brett Borders · 9 months ago
    Herman,

    Glad you found some value! Hopefully this'll help keep things separated.
  • Dave · 9 months ago
    Great post BrettI I was just telling some friends about Groups in TweetDeck, but hadn't thought of doing the same for Facebook or Digg. I've toyed with similar functions in FriendFeed, but the info gets overwhelming fast!
  • Brett Borders · 9 months ago
    Filtering stuff is the only way to have a large network and still have the site be usable.

    I agree about Friendfeed! So much info, a lot of it is echoed.
  • JustinSMV · 9 months ago
    This is a great tutorial on filtering out the noises. Most people complain about not following people because they don't want too much noise and these are the perfect solutions, great article!
  • Brett Borders · 9 months ago
    Justin,

    Filtering is a must. you get the benefits of a big network (ability to DM people, send invites, etc.) and the benefits of having all your friends in one place/
  • carmen2u · 9 months ago
    Question: What if you have Win2000? Tweekdeck isn't capatible. Is there an alternative you can recommend?
  • Brett Borders · 8 months ago
    Carmen,

    I recommend getting a newer operating system if you possibly can (linux is free). I'm not sure what, if any Twitter clients were created for a 9 year old operating system. Twitter has only been around for like 3 years so I'm not sure.
  • Andrea Meyer · 9 months ago
    Thank you so much for the step-by-step instructions complete with screenshots -- that is so helpful!!
  • Brett Borders · 8 months ago
    Andrea,

    Glad to be of service.
  • isabella mori · 8 months ago
    following all these people is becoming a bigger and bigger thing to manage for me.

    the reason why i don't used tweetdeck?

    one is that it doesn't get along with my laptop. i keep my laptop intentionally slow and memory-poor - otherwise i go berserk with it and start doing things like going on second life, which my family would kill me for.

    the other is that i LOVE the visual part of twitter. the avatars, the backgrounds - yum. tweetdeck does away with it all. twitter is my online living room. i don't want a generic looking living room!

    if you can think of a solution to these two problems, i'd be very very grateful!
  • Brett Borders · 8 months ago
    Isabella,

    Hmmm... I know Tweetdeck takes up a lot of resources. Maybe you could try Thwirl?
  • Lisa · 8 months ago
    Such great info! I've been wondering how to do this, I barely can find the tweets I want to see sometimes.

    Thanks!
  • Brett Borders · 8 months ago
    Lisa,

    This should make your life easier, but also make Twitter more usable + addictive :P
  • jehzlau · 8 months ago
    Oh.. great tips, nice points. I haven't tried tweetdeck yet, maybe I should try it now :)
  • Brett Borders · 8 months ago
    Jehzeel Laurente,

    Get it, try it and never look back!
  • Debo Hobo · 8 months ago
    I don't follow the so called celeb....they have enough folks stroking there.....egos
  • Benjamin Teo · 8 months ago
    A great article, I do practice all of these already and it really works. Especially on twitter you can't follow everyone but you can follow people who interest you or catch your eye, makes it easier to communicate
  • brett Borders · 8 months ago
    Benjamin,

    For sure! Filtering is one of the essential skills of living in the digital information age.
  • Sophie · 8 months ago
    I am new to Twitter and would like to download Tweetdeck. However I always get worried about the disclaimer about bugs etc. Is it safe to install?
  • Brett Borders · 8 months ago
    Sophie,

    Tweetdeck has a few bugs... which mean software glitches....

    but not "bugs" like viruses!

    It's totally safe to try!
  • spamless · 8 months ago
    TweetDeck is fun, and I use it already, but it massively mem-leaks on me and I have to limit my time with and use of it. Just leaving it open unused 8 hours causes it to suck up 400MB of available memory on my XP Pro SP3 machine.
  • Tim Entwisle · 8 months ago
    Very useful advice on Tweetdeck. I'm sold!
  • Brett Borders · 8 months ago
    Tim,

    Awesome! See you on there?
  • F. Andy Seidl · 8 months ago
    TweetDeck users should also become familiar with TweetDeck's filters. Within any group, you can easily filter tweets by various criteria including user name, tweeted text, source of tweet, or time stamp. You can quickly create filters to include or exclude tweets. It's a must-know feature for Twitter power users.
  • Brett Borders · 8 months ago
    F. Andy Seidl,

    Very, very true... Andy! Sometimes I like to filter stuff out (i.e., #FollowFriday overload).

    It sounds like a great idea for a blog post!
  • F. Andy Seidl · 8 months ago
    What I most commonly filter out is all the blip.fm and URLs of other services that pump radio playlists into Twitter. And speaking of FollowFriday... I think that whole idea as gone rather downhill (but it could, perhaps, recover). I posted separately about that here: http://faseidl.com/public/item/229791
  • wchingya · 8 months ago
    Great, this shall come in handy when I have more friends joining the Twitter network. Currently they all think I'm a Twitter & Blogger geek who has nothing better to do then spending time online (WRONG!).

    I heard alot fo good things about Tweetdeck, especially in managing a large amount of followers into groups; while having the search tool & split screen as well. Currently still using Twhirl but may put TweetDeck into serious considerations now. Thanks Brett for sharing.


    @wchingya
    Social Media/Blogging
  • krissy knox · 8 months ago
    Thanks, thanks, I'm going to do this!

    krissy knox :)
    follow me on twitter:
    http://www.twitter.com/iamkrissy
  • Chrissy Morin · 5 months ago
    This is great stuff! I love tutorials with pictures in them. I just did this friends list switch on Facebook and it's a great way to go. I have yet to master tweetdeck so this will be a big help. Thanks!
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  • LynnATL · 2 months ago
    Agree - great tips to filter the "noise" and the "convo" so you can decide how to best participate in social media. Thank you!