by Calvin Robinson on July 25, 2009.

I really don’t think I could get by without TweetDeck. I manage quite a few Twitter accounts for my company, but for my personal account(s) alone, I think TweetDeck is my saviour. Here’s why:

So I have two personal accounts, @calvinrobinson being my main actual Twitter account, that I use for communicating with people. But I feel Twitter is a 2-way communication service, so for the people who use it as a 1-way RSS stream I have another account altogether. @calvinscat follow’s people like Ashton Kutcher, Oprah, TechCrunch, Mashable: So Celebrities and News Streams basically.

So on TweetDeck I have

@calvinscat ‘All Friends’ stream, for my celebrity and tech/news streams
@calvinrobinson “People 2point0″ is the London2.0 scene, people like Marc Flores, Mike Butcher, Swannny etc.
@calvinrobinson “Chiefs” group, is my close friends column, Ruk Cooray, Aaron Sullivan and Aryel Abrahami etc.
@calvinrobinson ‘Mentions’, to see messages sent to me, obviously
@calvinrobinson ‘Direct Messages’ for trying to manage that nasty stream of DMs (please turn auto-DMs off folk!)

^ So that’s my main 5 TweetDeck columns. The ones I couldn’t do without. I used to have TweetScoop too, but that’s just one too many columns without going ‘thin’ style.

After the scroll I just have ‘Mentions’ columns for all my other accounts (mainly business related), to monitor conversations/references.