Tweetdeck

I've been using TweetDeck lately to submit my Twitter tweets. At first this seemed like a convenient way to tweet in absence of the instant messaging capability. While that is true, TweetDeck's real benefit comes in reading the tweets that I follow.

I always found the Twitter website a little clumsy for reading the streams of messages. That's because Twitter presents a single thread of messages displayed in the order they were posted. So my technology messages are intermixed with world news intermixed with gossips intermixed with nonsense. The result amounted to little more than noise.

TweetDeck solves this problems by grouping related tweets into columns. I separated technology and new into their own columns, for instance. Since installing TweetDeck, I find that I follow Twitter much more consistently (well OK, I generally ignored it before).

TweetDeck is also interesting because it is constructed and deployed on Adobe Air. Adobe Air runs Internet applications outside a browser and it therefore an interesting technology solving the multi-browser problem (which is getting worse, not better).