- How would like to organize all of your Twitter madness?
Organize everything in a nice dashboard,
where you have your home timeline feed,
and you have all of your activity
that's going on with all of your followers.
And you have your messages,
and you have your notifications,
and you have your search.
You might be thinking, "Oh, the hoosuite does that."
But I'm gonna show you something
that's maybe even better than hoosuite for Twitter.
So stay tuned, it's coming right up.
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What's going on, guys?
My name's Larry Snow, and in today's video
we're gonna be taking a look at something
that I have not looked at in probably seven years.
And that is TweetDeck.
And I am pleasantly surprised.
Now, TweetDeck is something that
I was using very early on in my days of Twitter.
Going back to 2010, was probably the last time I used it.
Because I just, whoop, switched over to hootsuite,
and I've been with hootsuite all along.
Dipping my toes into Buffer, here and there.
But, primarily, I'm a hootsuite guy.
And, I don't know, just something occurred to me,
that said, "What about TweetDeck?
Whatever happened with TweetDeck?"
So let's take a look at some of the awesome features
that TweetDeck has for you.
So in the TweetDeck dashboard,
you have a multitude of options that you can add to it.
All of these columns are separate things.
Let me just go you through them really quickly.
The home is your timeline, specific to your account.
Your notifications are specific to that account.
Your messages, then you have the activity.
Now, the activity is what all of your followers are posting.
And, let me just minimize that, so you can see it all.
And then I have a search,
and I'm gonna show you some other features
that search can do, in a second.
We're gonna go over to add a column.
So this little plus sign over here in the left-hand side,
if you wanna click on add a column,
and look at all of the options that you have.
So you could just do likes,
or you could add on another search column.
Or you could add in a collection, or a list.
Or your mentions, or what's trending.
Let's add what's trending.
And it's for this account, @lawrenceasnow.
And so this is all what's trending.
I can click on these individual ones,
and then I can add the column.
So, let's see ...
How about Total Eclipse of the Heart?
I have no idea what that's about,
probably with something about the eclipse
that's gonna happen on the 21st, here in the United States.
And we'll just click on add column.
Now we'll just close out of that.
So here's our new column, Total Eclipse of the Heart,
and we can go in here and say,
"You know what, I don't want that,
I can change it to something else."
So that's one of the awesome features.
Over on the left-hand side,
you have the home, the notifications,
so it just highlights certain sections
that you've already got open.
You can go to messages, and it has activity,
and it has my search.
So that's all of your columns,
it goes to that specific thing.
Because if you have tons of columns,
this little left-hand side
is gonna get longer and longer and longer this way,
and it's gonna be kept pushed out
further and further and further that way.
And so, when you click on that particular thing,
it's gonna show you, it'll take you right to that column.
Also, going down the left-hand side, at the very bottom,
we can expand or collapse this section,
so it gives you 4 activity, 5 #terrorism,
gives you a snapshot of that,
along with the icons that we just reviewed.
And then you go down to accounts,
and then you can edit your profile, right from here.
You can click on your lists, and go in here.
And you can add that as a column.
You can go into your collections, add that as a column.
So much that you can do with TweetDeck.
I'm just like blown away at all of this content
that you can organize,
and cut down on the Twitter madness, right?
And I think a lot of the things you're probably saying,
"Well, hootsuite does that."
But, I like this better.
'Cause with hootsuite, you get multiple streams, right?
So you have a Twitter stream, you have a YouTube stream,
you have multiple streams.
If you wanna clean interface, that's just Twitter.
Nothing, I don't think, to me anyway, beats TweetDeck.
So here's where the fun part comes in, I think.
It's a lot easier to do in TweetDeck.
You can do the same thing in hootsuite,
but it's a lot easier.
Lemme show you.
So, I have this hashtag terrorism,
like I always do in all of my open source
or social media intelligence tools, that I review.
And I always have hashtag terrorism,
just as a baseline, nothing more than that.
So here it is, hashtag terrorism.
And I click on the little icon there.
If you notice, I have location
within 20 kilometers of the city of London.
Here's what I can do.
I can say, "You know what? I want 10 kilometers."
So what it's doing is giving me
all the geotag tweets, in that 10 kilometer radius.
How cool is that?
Now, in hootsuite it's a little bit more complicated.
This is just a click of a button.
And say, "You know what? I don't want London,
I want not Blatimore, but Baltimore.
Gimme Baltimore, Maryland. See what's going on there."
And then I don't want 10 kilometers,
I want 50 kilometers, nice big swath of radius.
And here are all the tweets.
Let me just close that, and close that.
And here's all those tweets, in that radius.
50 kilometers is pretty big,
so let me go back in and lemme ...
Again these are only geotagged,
a lot of people don't geotag their stuff,
don't have geotagged accounts.
So, potentially, the tweets that you might
be looking for from an investigator standpoint,
or a social media intelligence standpoint,
might not necessarily be there.
But still, this is super easy.
So what do you think?
Is this something you're gonna now use?
I bet you will.
If you have not used TweetDeck in a long time,
like I haven't used in a long time,
you're gonna be quite surprised
at how efficient this is, how quick it is.
Connect it to Twitter, the Firehose,
everything is right here, displayed for you.
It's just awesome.
This is what I have up on my second monitor at all times.
With Cyph and TweetDeck, I'm all set.
So let me know what you think about TweetDeck.
Have you tried it?
When was the last time you tried it?
Are you gonna try it now that I've mentioned it,
and brought up all the awesomeness that it has?
Let me know in the comments below.
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and I'll see you in the next video.
Bye!