Urs Answers: Karen thanks great video, what a faster talker…. but the video is right on the money, nice for somebody just starting to use TweetDeck – very helpful.

I am not aware of a video regarding TweetDeck and as you probably know, Twitter does not allow you to have open several Twitter accounts at the same time.

However, you can easily switch from one Twitter account to another with the help of Tweet Deck.
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David, I am still looking for the Tweet Desk

Thank you, Dat To and David for your comments. Anybody out there know of a video regarding TweetDeck please leave a comment here

thanks for the info you are moving up the quality of this post towards something like the ultimate guide to Twitter tools

I just came across some more tools – you can find a long list here (it is in German but you can figure it out)

http://mbc09.de/?p=333

I really also like using http://Twemes.com it allows you to find out the various hashtags, provides a list, very nifty.

What happens if you use the following Twitter commands:

@username + message – this message is directed to a particular Twitter user – everybody can see it

d username – direct msg that works if you follow the other individual and she follows you as well, private goes to your e-mail as well, neat

FAV username – if you reply to an update with FAV the tweet is marked as a favorite

The ones below do not work with all programs – - so log onto your Twitter account via Firefox and enter commands in the update window

Using the commands below exactly as listed makes sure that the activity is not shown on your public window – typing it wrong such as STATS username instead of STATS only, shows in your public feed. So be careful.

GET username – brings you the latest tweet from that user

NUDGE username – using this command reminds a particular Twitter user to update his tweets

STATS – this is nifty because it returny your number of followers, how many people you are following and what keywords you are tracking

WHOIS username – very convenient because it gives you the profile information of any public Twitter user so type WHOIS ComMetrics – be surprised what I can find out

Great post I installed this a week ago and I like it very much.

Just one or two things:

a) when you get @replies and direct messages (they go to your e-mail and do not show on your Twitter feed) please reply to these pronto. Direct messages are people’s attempts to get in touch with you.

Maybe one reason why you should follow people. Only if you follow somebody and they follow you back can they send you direct messages, otherwise this approach fails.

b) tracking others is a matter of getting things organized and Tweet Deck can be of great help.

c) #hashtags : these are tagged tweets that one can than search for on http://www.Summize.com, so announcing your post on Twitter last night should have included a hashtag

#twittertools

Added at the end of the post makes it easy to find this tweet on Summize.

Finally, I once used Twitter Fox and while it is convenient I prefer Twitter Deck because it allows me to organize different people’s feeds into different groups as you mentioned above.