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Tweetdeck Groups

by Calvin Robinson on August 25, 2009.
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I whipped up another Twitter app over the weekend. Or rather I upgraded my current Twitter app.

Now you can browse your TweetDeck groups via RogerThat. From here you can copy/paste the contents of any of your groups – for backup purposes. The TweetDeck client itself offers very little group management.

I’m going to work on integration a little more too, so you can follow/unfollow directly from the list, instead of having to copy/paste back to RogerThat’s mass follow tool.

Got a few more ideas to add to my little Twitter project. I’m loving the Twitter API, it’s fun! Last time I used Python, this time I used PHP – a little reverse engineering of TweetDeck’s database files.

If you have any ideas of features I could add to my little Twitter project just let me know ^_^.

And yes… I will add a design to the page at some point! I know it’s ugly. It’s like pure code right now.

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TweetDeck, my love.

by Calvin Robinson on July 25, 2009.
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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.

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