First let me introduce you to Tweetdeck

If you are a blogger you properly also have a Twitter account where you promote yourself or maybe even multiple accounts. After a while it can be a lot of work to keep up with those accounts and tweets and the default www.twitter.com solution does not add much support for multiple accounts and a lot more than that. That is where Tweet Deck comes to the rescue. It is a little application you install on your PC. When it is installed you can configure multiple Twitter accounts and configure different kind of views for your twitter stream.

Get the full picture with Tweetdeck

On the picture below you can see I have configured 3 columns in my Tweetdeck.
The first one is called All Friends and simply just shows tweet from all people I follow. The second column is showing tweets only from bloggers that are on my customized list called “Favorites-Bloggers”.

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After careful deliberation and the fact that Blazing Minds does seem to be getting even more popular these days, I decided to start a Twitter account for the Guest Posts here on my blog and for the blogs that the Guest Posters run themselves.

This new Twitter account is @BMGuestPosters I’ve already started adding the feeds of the Guest Bloggers here on Blazing Minds and have started following them as well, hopefully they will all return the favour and follow back, yes I know some of you have already, cheers

So What’s This Account All About Then?

Well as I mentioned above, the Tweets will be the Guest Posts that are made on this blog, so each time a Guest Post has gone live @BMGuestPosters will tweet about it, it will also be reading the Guest Posters blogs and any new posts from them will also be tweeted out on the Twitter account.

This will not only promote the posts here on Blazing Minds, but will also promote their blogs to more readers, just my way of saying thank you

Now before you all start shouting “automated account”, I have added it to my TweetDeck so that if any questions or replies are made to the account and I am online at the time, I will be able to see them and reply to them.

So please follow @BMGuestPosters and remember everyone that follows IS followed back

So it’s been just over a year since I grabbed my new Twitter name of @BlazingMinds and boy has the time flown!

I’ve now had my Twitter since the 15th February and it’s been a brilliant first year on Twitter, yes there has been times when I thought my follower count wasn’t even going to make it past the 2,000 mark, but now, after promoting my blog posts, following some brilliant Tweeters and becoming more accustomed to using my Twitter, I’ve broken the 10,000 mark.

Reading loads of Twitter Tips across the internet has been interesting, with some people have totally different ideas to getting followers than others, with some saying following everyone back while some say only follow those that you find of interest or those that are in your own niche!

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I’m a big fan of TweetDeck and have used it for a while now since I started using Twitter, so it was great to see that TweetDeck is now available as a Google Chrome Extension.

The Chrome Extension is very similar to the TweetDeck desktop software, so it’s easy to grasp, specially when you are used to the using it on your desktop, though there are some noticeable differences, these include the option for Blended Columns, this is where all your conversations etc are all in one column, it can be quite daunting at times, but still very nice. Take a look at the video for more info

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It’s the weekend and another week has flown by, so it’s that time where I bring you some stats from the week on what has been popular here on my blog as well as some other bits of information that some of you may find interesting. Last week Blazing Minds had a massive influx of traffic and this was down to a popular post about vetting your twitter followers, It even had 74 tweets on Twitter my most popular post on Twitter so far

Anyway enough of the banter let’s get on with the stats….

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It’s quite amazing how fast the weeks go by these days and this week round-up has a slight change in the top referring search terms as there seems to be a movement towards searching for [intlink id="565" type="category"]Blogging Tips[/intlink] and since starting my [intlink id="727" type="category"]Photo A Day[/intlink] project there has also been a flurry of people searching for digital photography, so it seems that this is helping my blog along..

There also seems to be a search engine on the top 5 that I haven’t seen before, though it has on hit the site once, it’s a welcome change.

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Those of you that have read my blog over the past few months will of notice I have done a few [intlink id="565" type="category"]Blogging Tips[/intlink] as well as a collection of [intlink id="109" type="category"]Twitter Tips[/intlink] so I thought It was about time that I mentioned a way of helping others in a tip to seeing your new followers and what do with them via the TweetDeck platform.

TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.

Not only can you have a collection of columns that you can show your groups/lists, direct messages, search queries, replies etc, but you can also add a column for new Twitter Follows and this is what can be very useful for sorting out your new Twitter Follows..

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