Those of you that have read my blog over the past few months will of notice I have done a few Blogging Tips as well as a collection of Twitter Tips 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..
So for starters you will need to click the Add column button this will open up the screen for adding new columns to your TweetDeck, then you need to click the “core” button to give you a list of Twitter options.
What you then need to do is make sure you are using the correct Twitter username, if you have multiple accounts, then select the “New Followers” option.
This will now open a new column at the end of your other columns on TweetDeck and will now list new followers of your chosen Twitter account, now you can use this to column to choose who you want to follow back, unfollow, block and even add to lists or groups.
So how can you use this column to follow back your Twitter Followers?
It’s quite simple really under each new follower there are several links you can link on, first is the users Twitter profile link, next is [+] this is for adding the Tweeter to one or more of your groups and/or lists, next is “block” this will block the Tweeter and finally “follow” or “unfollow” if you are already following them.
So when you get new followers you can decide from Tweetdeck whether you want to follow them back or unfollow them, also hovering over the Tweeters profile picture will allow your to mention them in a tweet, DM them, block or block and report spam to Twitter.
I do find this an extremely useful column to have running on Tweetdeck not only does it let me know who is following me, but I can decide there and then from Tweetdeck if I want to follow them back or not, which gives me an instant control over those that are following me while I am using Tweetdeck and as I have the program running while my computer is on, it’s always giving me the option to do what I want.
So there you have it, a simple way using a great Twitter Tool to help you organize your Twitter Followers, it’s easy to do and if you are using TweetDeck it already for you to add
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Twitter: richardbarley
says:
Hey Karen, great article. Very nicely put together
Keep up the great work!
Richard
(TweetDeck Community Manager)
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Karen
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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January 14th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Thanks for stopping by commenting
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Twitter: pcd2k
says:
Yes I trialed it for a while, but I need black text on a white background version. I really dig black background pages, etc, but only for images or photographs. Twitterdeck, as gorgeous and cool as it seems to most users, gave me irritable and itchy eyes, but hey that’s just me, I guess!
An excellent post nevertheless.
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Karen
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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January 14th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
What you need to do, is go into the TweetDeck options and change the colour pallet to your requirements
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Twitter: kbloemendaal
says:
Great tip! I have been using Tweetdeck for over a year and didn’t know about that feature with new followers. Was a hassle to constantly go to my twitter page to see new followers and decide if I wanted to follow back! Re-tweeted (which I like the tweetmeme button better than the twittley because it doesn’t take you away from the page you are reading to tweet it).
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Karen
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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January 14th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Thanks Keith
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Twitter: element321
says:
Karen,
Thanks for the great tip. I haven’t used TweetDeck in a few months. I didn’t even know about the update for the friends list. I upgraded and added the list as followed. It worked great and it looks like a great tool to use to research your new followers.
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Karen
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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January 15th, 2010 at 9:04 am
Glad I could be of some help in some way
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Twitter: DennisEdell
says:
Of all the tools now out, this one sure seems to be one everyone agrees on in one form or another…my first download before I start tweeting again, thanks!

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Karen
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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January 16th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Thank you Dennis for continuing to be an avid commenter on my blog
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Dennis Edell
Twitter: DennisEdell
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January 16th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Hey now, you keep posting the coolness and I’ll keep spreading my cheer (for better or worse) LOL.
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Twitter: BasicBlogTips
says:
I use HootSuite and I had some problems when I download TweetDeck awhile back. But now I feel like I must be the only goof that gets an email every time someone follows me. LOL Really l guess I’m just an old fashioned gal.
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Twitter: nyirendac
says:
I am an avid brizzly and twitzap fan. I have always resisted TweetDeck but I will give it a try now.
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Twitter: bbrian017
says:
Great write up Karen. I have never used tweetdeck out side of my iphone. By the images you added it looks amazing. I can say from experience that the tweetdeck options of the iphone are simply awesome. From your article and write up here I can see it’s just as good on the desktop.
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Karen
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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January 18th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Thanks Brian, I’m hoping that other readers of my blog that use TweetDeck will find it a useful post
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Twitter: TechPatio
says:
That’s a great tip. I retweeted it
I didn’t know TweetDeck had the “new followers” option, but I haven’t really looked around in the TweetDeck options/settings for a long time either.
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Twitter: extremejohn
says:
Very interesting stuff this Tweet Deck is I tell ya. I used Tweet Deck when it first came out then jumped ship to Seesmic and haven’t been back to check out Tweet Deck since. Maybe Ill throw it on one of the office computers and see whats new in Tweet Deck.
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Karen
Twitter: BlazingMinds
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January 20th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
So could there be a comparison of the two appearing on your bloggy soon?
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