Creating Groups With Tweetdeck

As I men­tioned in my last post, it’s impor­tant to cre­ate groups of peo­ple from Twit­ter that you want to keep an eye on. It’s near impos­si­ble to keep track of every­thing on twit­ter alone, espe­cially with a mass fol­low­ing. Cre­at­ing groups is a great way to keep track of tweets that are impor­tant to you.

Today I’m going to show you how to cre­ate these groups in Tweet­deck. It’s pretty sim­ple once you know how.

Open up your Tweet­deck and look at the upper left cor­ner. You will see icons for writ­ing your tweets, search, tweet­deck direc­tory as well as icons with the twit­ter, face­book, and myspace but­tons. It’s the twit­ter but­ton here that we are inter­ested in.

When you click on that a lit­tle box pops up. It shows a bunch of small icons at the top and below it will list any saved searches you have as well as groups when you cre­ate them. The icons do sev­eral dif­fer­ent things and if you hover over them it will tell you what they are. But for now we are just con­cerned with the group but­ton. Which is close to the middle.

Click­ing on the group but­ton changes the box to where you can cre­ate a new group. Below that is a list of peo­ple your are following.

Adding a new group will add a new col­umn in your tweet­deck. When­ever you add peo­ple to this group, their tweets will show up in your newly cre­ated col­umn. Let’s go ahead and cre­ate a group.

Type in a name for your group. It can be any­thing you want. Just make it some­thing easy to remem­ber or some­thing related to the par­tic­u­lar tweet­ers you have in mind to add to it. For the sake of this post we will call it “impor­tant tweets”.

Now we will add some peo­ple to the group. Remem­ber that right below this is your com­plete list of peo­ple you are fol­low­ing. You can do one of two things. You can scroll through the list and pick out the peo­ple you would like to add. Or if you know who you want to add, you can use the fil­ter box. Which is directly below the group name box. Just type in the name of the tweeter you want to add, and tweet­deck will sort through your list to find the per­son your look­ing for.

Whichever way you decide to do it is up to you. Either way, just tick the small box next to the name and they will be added to the group. When you have added who you want click “save group” at the bot­tom of the menu. You now have a new col­umn in tweet­deck and a new group.

Now when­ever peo­ple that you added to this par­tic­u­lar group make tweets, they will show up in this col­umn. This makes keep­ing track of tweets that are impor­tant to you easy to find. Oth­er­wise you would be look­ing through the sea of tweets from all your friends.

Your new col­umn works just like all the oth­ers as well. You can still hover over their pic and retweet or respond as you please.

One last thing: Of course your going to want to add more peo­ple to your group later on as your fol­low­ing grows (or take peo­ple off, gasp!). And it’s very easy to do. All you have to do is click on the group name at the top of your col­umn. A box will pop up, it will look just like the one you used to cre­ate your group.

Just as before, you can scroll through the list, or use the fil­ter box and search for par­tic­u­lar peo­ple. Just tick the box next to their name to add them or untick it to take them off the group. After­wards hit “save group” at the bot­tom and your group col­umn will update.

I hope this helps, I’ll be back soon with a quick go over of Hoot­suite. Which is essen­tially the same as tweet­deck except that it is used in the browser instead. Which is handy when your on a dif­fer­ent computer.

In the mean­time, I’ll mess around with the Twit­ter List and come back to you with that one. I like it so far but we shall see.

~Chris

Did I miss any­thing? Let me know, I’d be happy to fix it!

Sim­i­lar Posts:

• Cre­at­ing Groups With Hootsuite
• Cre­at­ing Groups With Twitter
• How to Keep Up With Tweets

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