#Tweetdeck or hootsuite update#

When I first started using the client, there was a bit of a learning curve, but once you learn how the different functionalities work (retweeting, etc), the Tweetdeck desktop application is very powerful. Ability to customize the look and feel of the application.Ability to post to multiple accounts at once.

Add and delete columns and lists as needed.

Choose from lists of core Twitter columns, or create your own.

Following, unfollowing, and blocking are easy to use and understand.

Choose your custom URL shortener (bit.ly, awe.sm, etc) and your photosharing service.

Winner: Tweetdeck by default, but I highly recommend this application. iPadīoth Hootsuite and Tweetdeck offer iPad apps. I have both installed and have used both extensively. Hootsuite works well on any type and speed of connections. It is simple to add columns, search for people, see stats on your tweets (how many RTs, etc), and upload photos and files. Hootsuite will also suggest the names of your contacts when you begin to mention them in a tweet, which cuts down on the number of typos and tweets being sent to the wrong person. Hootsuite also handles opening articles and videos well. The app opens webpages and articles in a screen that overlays your tweet columns. It is a mostly fully-functional web browser, actually, just lacking the ability to input a URL to browse to a site that is not connected to the webpage or article you are currently viewing. Scheduling tweets is easy and painful, though you cannot bulk schedule without Hootsuite Pro. It works well on a fast connection, but when it is on a slow connection, it crawls.

#Tweetdeck or hootsuite update#

The customizable refresh rate is nice, as opposed to Hootsuite that does not have this functionality, but the app takes forever to update even when the refresh rate is set to optimal intervals. The Tweetdeck iPad app does show pictures and videos directly within the app. You can also use a custom URL shortener, which is a weakness of the Hootsuite iPad app. Don’t worry though, there’s a link at the end of this article that has the mother lode of location-based Twitter search strings that work in Twitter clients like Tweetdeck.The functionality I hate most about the Tweetdeck app is how it displays articles that you click on from your Twitter stream. Sadly, this isn’t large enough to cover all of the US without moving the center of the geocode. The largest radius Twitter will accept is 2500km. Then the longitude, which you also should have retrieved at the start of this tutorial. The first number is the latitude of your location, which you should have retrieved back in the first step of this tutorial. The first word, geocode:, tells Twitter that we’re going to be sending it some map co-ordinates. The magic words which allow you to search near a location are next: geocode:44.467186,-73.214804,200km If you don’t care if any particular words are in your location-based twitter search Tweetdeck column (say that five times fast) then you can just start with the next part.

In this example, I’ve used the hashtag for Burlington, VT, which is named for our airport code. The first part of this string, #btv, is any text you want to use in your search. Here is an example of a geocoded search query looks like: #btv geocode:44.467186,-73.214804,200kmĬopy and paste that little bit of codely goodness into that Tweetdeck search bar and you can quit the rest of this tutorial–from here on out it’s just for nerds and locative media geeks.