Kyle LeBoeuf

I like checking Twitter Search to see what’s trending. Today, of course, most of the stuff that is trending revolves around the Christmas holidays (Merry Christmas, by-the-way), but I saw something else that caught my eye.

Apparently, a really popular Twitter client called TweetDeck pushed out a major update recently, and there were a ton of people that were excited about it. Being always curious about trying out new applications, I decided to take it our for a spin.

TweetDeck is built upon Adobe’s AIR framework, and thus can run on multiple operating systems (at this time: Windows, Mac, and most Linux distros). TweetDeck differs from other Twitter clients in that it seperates tweets into columns based on predefined categories. By default, this is a “All Friends” category, which is basically every Tweet from the people you are following, “replies”, which is self-explanatory, and “direct messages”, which is also self-explanatory.

I’ll embed a screenshot (click to enlarge)

TweetDeck screenshot

TweetDeck uses a fancy mutli-column layout that lets you seperate general tweets, replies, direct messages, and tweets from different individuals. The whole thing works really smoothly and looks great.

I’ve switched over to this application almost entirely for my Twitter usage. I love it.

Kyle