TweetDeck by Twitter
Developer: Twitter, Inc.TweetDeck is a social media platform that allows users to manage multiple Twitter accounts. It not only allows sending and receiving tweets, but also helps monitor different profiles, trends, messages and alerts grouped under specific hashtags.
The TweetDeck is an expanded and improved version of Twitter. If uses it to follow a topic or research a subject, the new application will make people who use Twitter will make it more obsessive experience.
TweetDeck automatically refreshes the page, so there is not need to click the "Update" button. The news are delivered immediately and filtered under categories representing events, topics and hashtags.
Just like in Twitter, the TweetDeck allows users to send 140-character messages and post a link to an image or an article.
The TweetDeck is linked to the Tweeter account, so users can log in using their Twitter username and password. The tool can be used both as a web and desktop app. TweetDeck is one of the most popular Twitter applications in 2009 with a 23% market share, according to http://www.sysomos.com.
If I want to monitor messages for retweeting, I’m allowed to do that using one single interface that displays my personal and work-related tweets.
One of my favorite features of TweetDeck is the ability to monitor my personal and work accounts stimulaniously.
At work, I’m expected to tweet and retweet multiple messages from my account at the Intersections South L.A. So the TweetDeck is my ultimate tool to do my work.
One single timeline allows to promote tweets of my colleagues and my own. Again, I don’t need to log out of my Twitter account in order to do that.
in order to do that, I don’t need to sign in out every time I use my personal and work accounts, I’m allowed to monitor them both using one interface.
TweetDeck was released on July, 4, 2008. A year later, the iOS version was released, followed by an app for Android the following year. In 2011, the Twitter bought TweetDeck and just recently allowed its users to sign in with their Twitter’s username, not as a individual application. The creators of TweetDeck claim their product is different from Twitter. It not only is an improved version of it, the multiple window timeline allows to change the theme making it darker or lighter.
It allows to schedule tweets to be delivered later, to set a sound alert for the upcoming tweets and filter messages while following info on the homepage.
I think for a journalist, the TweetDeck is an essential tool as Twitter becomes more and more important in delivering and promoting information. The social platform like this allows a reporter to monitor, for example, several events, react and tweet about, post pictures using one single timeline. The TweetDeck makes Twitter more immediate medium than before.
The most important thing about the TweetDeck is it’s flexibility. It really extends the border of using a social media making it more accessible for the reporter’s work.