As I said, I would go over creating groups to help you keep track of important tweets in Hootsuite. Hootsuite is an online alternative to Tweetdeck.
It comes with it’s own set of benefits, but mainly that it is online. You can get access online and organize your tweets from anywhere. It also has a great search function to find tweets and twitters as well.
It’s fairly easy to make groups with Hootsuite and is similar to Tweetdeck. Let’s get started shall we:
When you login you’ll see a similar setup to tweetdeck. They both use columns. But as you can see, not only can you create new columns, but you can make tabs to organize even further.
First we will create a new column. On the right side you will see a link that says “Add Column” and has a plus sign next to it.
Click on that and a small box will pop up that looks like this.
Of course we want to create a group for this lesson. So click on the tab that says “Group”. This will change the box and you can add in the name of the group and the twitters you want.
Fill in the name of your new group in the group title box. Then type in the name of the tweeter you want to add to this group. You will need the usernames of who you want to add. Just type in their name and click add.
Afterwards just click create column. You now have a new group column with just the tweets you want.
In order to add more people to the column, just click on the pencil icon that is the top right corner of your new column. It will bring up the same box as before. And just like before, add the twitters you want or delete them by hitting the x next to their name.
You now have a group column to help keep track of important tweets. But you can organize even further in Hootsuite by creating tabs. When you create a new tab it basically makes a new window of columns.
Let’s cover that real quick:
Creating a tab is pretty simple. Just click on the + button next to your other tabs and a box will pop up. You put the name of the new tab and pick how often you want it to refresh.
And just like that you have a new tab. You can add columns just like you did before. This is just another way to organize your tweets.
There you go, now you know how to better organize the thousands of tweets your receive with Tweetdeck and Hootsuite. These are both robust programs and are free as well. Sifting through the sea of tweets is much easier when you can organize them.
My next post I’m going to cover the Twitter list that they just recently added. I can already see it being used for multiple functions. And organization. The better we can optimize our time on Twitter, the more effectively we can use our time for other marketing tasks.
~Chris
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