TweetDeck Answers

This will be a post in which I update things about TweetDeck tonight (July 1, 2009).  I understand it’s not a common practice to keep updating one post but this first one is just a graphical demo for my friend Laura.   I will take questions from Twitter and compile them into this post.  Mmhmm.  Live blogging.

Managing Your Tweets in TweetDeck

Buttons from left to right:

• Move Column Left
• Show What is Popular in This Column
• Filter This Column
• Mark All As Seen
• Clear Seen Tweets
• Clear All
• Move Column Right

When you mark a Tweet as “seen” (or hit mark all as seen as I have before), your Tweets change from this:

To this:

(The slight variation being the little white dot disappears.)

Syncing Your TweetDeck Between Two Computers

Great question from Bob in Kingston. (The question being the header above.)

This is done inside of the Settings panel of TweetDeck but before I show you how to do this – let me caution you on something.  It’s not perfect. While it does sync your two accounts, the “marked as read” and “seen” Tweets don’t always reflect across multiple computers.  Even with this method.  And, you still need to setup your column preferences on each computer.

1. Login to Tweet Deck and click on “Settings”

2. Click on Sync (the last tab on this window).

Ideally, this is *supposed* to work – this is why TweetDeck has the sync option but I’ve found that it doesn’t always connect to the server thus not creating a perfect replica of what you have in both accounts.

3. Login to your other TweetDeck account and do the same process.

Other questions? Tweet me! @ErinBlaskie

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