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One of my favorite Twitter marketing tools is TweetDeck. (http://tweetdeck.com/beta/) It’s a better way to use Twitter than Twitter itself! If you are using Twitter in your marketing, TweetDeck allows you to view all your relevant info in one simple console. It’s a free download, and currently considered beta software, but I haven’t had any technical problems with it.I use four columns on my TweetDeck application: All Friends, Replies, Direct Messages, and Search.All Friends. This column displays all of your friends tweets, in real time. I usually open TweetDeck once or twice a day, so the first thing I do is scan all my friends Tweets, looking for anything interesting, funny, or noteworthy in any way. I have found a lot of great tips, websites, quotes, and other ideas just through scanning this column. If I find something I really like I will re-tweet it. TweetDeck makes it easy, all I have to do is hover my mouse over their profile pic, and it gives me the option of reply, re-tweet, direct message, or favorite their Tweet.Replies. This columns displays all replies to me personally, as well as any re-tweets. I always Direct Message those that re-tweet my stuff, thanking them for the re-tweet. I don’t usually reply, as that would appear in my Twitter stream, and I have my personal Twitter presence linked to my Facebook profile, so I don’t want to “clutter up” facebook with a ton of personal back and forth Tweets.Direct Messages. Let’s face it, most of these are automated spam. I ignore those. But I do scroll through to find the “real” DM’s, and respond to those. Some people think Twitter is an online version of Instant messaging. It’s not. You don’t have to respond instantly to everything that’s sent to you. Don’t feel bad about responding to messages a few hours, or even days old. Twitter is a micro-blog, nobody should expect instant communication back.Search. In this column I see results for any key term I’m interested in. I currently have the name of my company. If one of our affiliates is sending out a Tweet about it, I will often re-tweet their message, exposing their link to all of my followers, and letting them know I appreciate their referrals. Other mentions include simple things like, “Listening to a training by…” and I respond to those too. Any publicity is good publicity, so I try to thank anybody who’s putting in a good word for what we’re doing.The key is to be consistent, and to use TweetDeck as a part of your overall Twitter strategy, helping you drive traffic, build relationships, and stay in touch with prospects and clients.

There’s definitely no shortage of add-ons and additional tools being released to make expand on the ever-increasing growth of Twitter.  Probably the most efficient ones that everyone can find a use for are the Twitter desktop applications that allow you to tweet from separate client in a small window instead of spending all your Twitter time on the actual website.

Right now, the two most popular Twitter desktop apps are TweetDeck and Twhirl.

TweetDeck:
One thing that can happen once you build a huge list of followers is that you get overwhelmed by trying to keep up with the long list of non-stop tweets from your network. TweetDeck is a lightweight application that allows you to break down that information into organized groups that are a lot easier to manage.

The TweetDeck screen can be set up to be split into columns that show groups of messages separately such as replies, direct messages, but also can show lists of specified groups as well. So, let’s say you have football buddies mixed in with your Twitter network of Internet marketers. You can have two separate columns  – one for football, one for Internet marketing, and simply add users to the appropriate groups.

The organization in TweetDeck drastically kills the noise, and it’s very easy to use. This is definitely the top choice for a serious Tweeter.

Twhirl
Twhirl is quite a bit smaller than TweetDeck, with not as many features, but still is a great little application that let’s yo follow your Twitter stream easier than refreshing the twitter website all day.

If you don’t need all the organization features of TweetDeck, then you might want to try something a little more compact like Twhirl. It still has the main features you need like search, url-shortener, etc. You can also cross-post to other social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) which is a nice feature.

Regardless which app you choose, either will surely add convenience to your Twitter experience.  Now, go tweet from your desktop!