Twitter Tips: TweetDeck App Gets You Organized, Automated
The handy, free TweetDeck app will help you organize personal and business Tweets, automate coordination with Facebook, and more. Here are quick and easy instructions on how and why to get started with TweetDeck.
Post Tweets to Facebook or Twitter, or Both
In order to add your Facebook status messages to Twitter, simply click on the Facebook icon on the right side of the button console described in the last section.
When you choose it, a pop-up will emerge and ask for your Facebook user name and password. This will install the TweetDeck Facebook application to your Facebook Account and allow the two programs to talk with each other.
After you install the TweetDeck app for Facebook, click on the button with the thought bubble on the far left side of the TweetDeck console.
This will open up a field for you to post a status message. On the left side, you'll find check boxes for "Facebook" and "Twitter." Decide where you want to publish the post by checking them off. This is an especially helpful feature, as you may not want to burden a lot of your Facebook friends with your daily work-related tweets.
Some other cool things the Tweet editor does: it will automatically shorten URLs and add them to the body of your tweets before you send them. You can also upload pictures to TwitPic, a service that hosts pictures that are shared (via a link) over Twitter.
