WheelieTech » TweetDeck http://www.wheelietech.com Me, myself and Tech Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:28:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TweetDeck – Shrink those tweets! http://www.wheelietech.com/2009/02/tweetdeck-shrink-those-tweets/ http://www.wheelietech.com/2009/02/tweetdeck-shrink-those-tweets/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:41:39 +0000 Justin http://www.wheelietech.com/?p=21 Twitter - The microblogging website - has had something of an explosion in recent months. If you're a twitter user you may be finding it hard to cope with the number of tweets, particularly if you follow a lot of people or follow people that tweet alot.

Introducing TweetDeck
One of the popular Twitter applications is TweetDeck, an Adobe(R) AIR application that works on Windows, Mac and Linux. Cali Lewis from GeekBrief.TV has produced a short overview of the software which I suggest you view here.

Now Cali covers the main features of TweetDeck but there are some additional hints and tips:

Talk too much?
Twitter limits you to 140 characters and sometimes it's very hard to fit what you are trying to say into that small number. TweetDeck will let you know when you go over the limit by turning the Tweet box:
This shows TweetDeck over the character limit.

Sometimes, no matter how much you try, it can be impossible to get the character limit down. TweetDeck has a link to a useful service called TweetShrink. If you're over the limit why not try pressing the TweetShrink button TweetShrink and your tweet will be whisked away to the TweetShrink service and come back a little shorter.
tweetshrunk

TweetShrink replaces words and phrases with abbreviations for example You=U and Here=Hre. Hopefully it will bring your tweet within the 140 characters.

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