Twitter: Mitigating the Noise with Seesmic & TweetDeck Groups
One of the recurring conversations I’ve seen come up over the last few months is Twitter overload, and how to most effectively cope with the tidal wave of updates that people receive from the contacts they’re following. Without mechanisms in place to track specific people, and the contributions they make, it’s all too easy for their updates to be washed away in the ongoing deluge of discussion.
One thing I’ve just started experimenting with, which I’ve so far had very good results with, is the use of groups. This isn’t a feature that exists in the native Twitter site unfortunately, but has been introduced by a couple of different Twitter clients – most notably TweetDeck and Seesmic.
Groups enable you to categorise collections of your Twitter contacts and effectively filter out everyone else. Additionally, given both TweetDeck and Seesmic feature multi-column interfaces, you are able to configure one or more categories to be displayed along side the columns that contain the updates of all your contacts, mentions/replies and direct messages.
Effectively you can continue to view the ongoing stream of discussion that contains everyone’s updates, while ensuring that the people you really want to hear from aren’t lost in the shuffle.
Seesmic has been very helpful to me, I just need to use it more. Need to set up my groups so I can read the tweets I care about most.
Chris! How've you been? I notice a major shortage of posts on your blog as of late. Are you going to start writing again?
Yeah Seesmic is a nice app. Though admittedly I use TweetDeck more because it lets you sync your colums, groups and other configurations across machines by tying them together with an online account.
If I were only on one machine it would be a non-issue, but I use at least 5 different ones (between home, work, laptop and dual-booting machines), so the sync option comes in really handy.
I have to say that using the group option the last few days makes me wonder how I ever went without it. Follow people who rarely post, so it's good to be able to keep track of what they have to say.
Hope all is well! Talk to you later.
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