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30 Minute Twitter Solution

Submitted by How To Make My Blog from Google Reader

Jun 03, 2009

Summary

You’re busy.

I’m busy.

We’re all busy.

It’s super easy to get sucked into spending a LOT of time on the various social media solutions without knowing whether or not you’re making a difference in your bottom line or not. This article is the first of many that will teach you how to make the most of your time AND make sure you are using your time wisely.

30 Minute Twitter Solution

1) Start by downloading TweetDeck. If you’ve never used any Adobe Air products before, you’ll also need to download Adobe Air. This could take 5 minutes or so, so take this time to go grab yourself a cup of coffee or continuing to prep for your day.

2) Once TweetDeck is installed, launch the application, log in with your Twitter userID and password, and click on the X to remove the Direct Messages (DM) column. DMs are made to distract you, and don’t need to be answered right away if you only have 30 minutes. This will leave Replies and All Friends. You’ll want these columns open all the time, because you know why you’re using Twitter for business or you’re using Twitter for personal reasons

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Comments (1)

Techn0tic,

Jun 03, 2009

Just another attempt to shoehorn the messy, humanistic world of social media into a robotic business process. OK, it might do the job but it's not very "social", where are the cases for when you get sucked into a discussion on an important topic for example? Sorry, my 30 minutes are up and I've already tweeted my allocated number of replies...