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Twitter can be a little overwhelming, and also time consuming!

There are many great tools out there to help you organize, sort and review your tweets in an effective way. Logging into Twitter online or reviewing your tweets on your phone is fine, but it can take a while to scroll through everything. Also, if like me you moderate several different accounts, it means logging and and back out of each of them. Then there is the concern of posting the wrong tweet when logged into the wrong account!

TweetDeck is the perfect tool to monitor your Twitter accounts, and include access to your Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace accounts too! Go to www.tweetdeck.com and click on the download link. Walk through the download and once complete, (if it doesn’t already open), go ahead and click on the shortcut on your desktop.

You can start entering your Twitter account information from the first screen that opens on TweetDeck. However, if you opt not to, or can’t figure out how to enter more information, simply click on the icon that looks like a wrench at the top right corner. This is for the settings.

You can add multiple Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace accounts. You will need to enter your user name and password for each account. You can also change the standard colors and fonts, notifications and general information in the TweetDeck Settings area.

You can determine the number of columns of Tweets, and updates you wish to see, and you can also determine what is displayed in those columns. From the top left, click on the plus sign icon.

You can then determine the type of account that you want to display. Then decide if you want to show groups, lists, direct messages, replies, mentions and so on.

Now you can simply stay on your desktop, set notifications based on the updates you are interested in seeing, and not have to log in directly to all of your separate accounts. Much easier to use, and less time consuming.

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