TweetDeck Interface for Twitter

I recently downloaded and installed TweetDeck, an Adobe AIR application that uses the Twitter API.

In case you've been living under a rock (or if you've just heard about this Internet thing), Twitter is a "micro-blogging" site.  What that basically means is that millions of people publish single sentence statements and usually accompany them with a link to their blog or website.  I think of it as being able to broadcast short ads to anyone who is listening, and use those ads to increase traffic to my website or blog.

For example, after I post this article, I will probably tweet something like "my latest blog post on how TweetDeck can help your business on Twitter" and then have a link to this post.  Sometimes I'm able to double my traffic from doing this.  Yep, that's right.  When I Twitter about a posting I may even end up with 2 readers. 

One of the problems with Twitter is that you've got millions of people clamoring for attention for their one-liner.  And then you have to sift through all that to find out what's useful.

Enter TweetDeck, a 3 columned Twitter interface.  I can see all my replies and direct messages, make groups, set alerts, and search through everyone tweets.  This is a huge time saver over the usual Twitter.com web interface.

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