Lately I've been updating 2 Twitter accounts on the regular; my personal account and the Zebra Communications account. From time to time I struggled with staying up to date with my own Twitter, and adding a second account to my schedule made things even more complicated. So rather than continuously logging in and out of accounts and trying to keep up with @ replies and frequent posts, I turned to @DonnaTeachesSM and asked her:
"@DonnaTeachesSM How do you juggle multiple Twitter accounts! I've been trying to upkeep the Zebra Twitter, and keep neglecting my own :/"
She responded with:
"@Amanda4PR TweetDeck helps, but mostly it's just trial and error!..."
I decided to take her advise and create a TweetDeck account. I was set up in just a few minutes! When I first logged in it look a little overwhelming, it just seemed to be update mania! TweetDeck gave me 3 columns of updates, and 1 column of "suggested" people to follow. Seeing some of the columns were unnecessary to my needs, I played around with what I did and did not want to have in columns. I then added the Zebra account to my TweetDeck, which was just a short matter of typing in the Twitter name and password.
I need more time to play around with TweetDeck in order to fully understand what all it has to offer. However, to anyone who is struggling with juggling more than one Twitter account, I definitely suggest giving TweetDeck a trial. It seems like once you get the hang of it, it is really helpful.
So glad you discovered the tool! I used it all day, everyday. Since I share a lot of the same tweets on all accounts, you can actually send the same tweets from multiple accounts with one click. You can also update Facebook, but I like to keep FB TOTALLY separate from Twitter. You can also save searches in columns, so if you want to see people who mention #wilkes or #zebra, you can easily see it. I am not sure if I can download it on the computer in our classroom, but maybe I can show you a few things if you have questions on your own laptop in class.
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