Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Smartphone app: TweetDeck

Continuing on the topics of Facebook and Twitter, if you use both of them, you must have heard of TweetDeck.  It's the leading Twitter application - I believe mostly because it has great Facebook integration too.  The smartphone app, available for both Android and iPhone, is slick, smooth, and user friendly.



Your friends' tweets and Facebook updates are combined into one column, so you can view them chronologically.  This simple feature is fantastic, and it beats having to check different two places.  You can swipe over to the next column to find only tweets directed at you or updates about posts you have commented on or directed at you, which your phone can be set to notify you about.

It is not as fully featured as Facebook or Twitter's own applications, but it will display most posted pictures, and it's easy to comment on Facebook posts or reply to/retweet tweets.  Clicking on links will open your phone's web browser.

For your computer, there are also pc and mac versions you can download to your computer and open as separate programs.  Rather than doing that, I've installed the Chrome web app version for my netbook (which doesn't have Rockmelt installed on it) - I can have it open in a separate tab and new posts pop up briefly in the bottom right hand corner of my screen (handy when I'm browsing other webpages - the computer version does the same).

TweetDeck is available for free in the Apple App Store, Android Market, Chrome Web App store, and its homepage for download.

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