[How to] manage tens of thousands of Twitter followers and still be involved

How to manage tens of thousands of Twitter followers and still be involved? The answer in short is selective filtering. I will tell you how to do exactly that in this article. New and even some long time Twitter users usually don’t know how to manage their Twitter accounts.  I will tell you in this article Some of my friends who also use Twitter usually ask for tips on how to follow several people and at the same time be followed by others. I usually do not have a definite answer to their questions since I think that I still find some instances that are overwhelmingly difficult when it comes to managing my Twitter tasks.

Nevertheless, there are several tools that would help you maximize the uses of Twitter as well as properly manage your tasks. This helpful managing tool is TweetDeck. It is a compilation of several utilities that are designed to help users when it comes to performing several tasks. Some of these tasks are essential in connecting to large number of other Twitter users. A sample instructional video by Jesse Newhart displays some of the helpful features of TweetDeck. The video shows how to stay active on Twitter with over 15,000 connected users. The video contains information about the proper configuration of the API settings. It also discusses the use of Filtering in order to find people that display topics within your interests.

Honestly, I have not been using the Filtering very often. Seeing how Jesse uses the filtering feature, I now realize that it is rather quite useful in managing my Twitter connections. The following is the video posted by Jesse. I also included three additional techniques that I implement in using TweetDeck.

Aside from the techniques mentioned by Jesse on the video, here are some alternative ways of using TweetDeck features that would help you a lot in following numerous people on Twitter effectively:

Grouping Important People

Specifically tracking people on Twitter is very much difficult when the number of users being followed reaches thousands. You may want to track several people which are very important to you such as your wife or your boss. You may also wish to follow several outstanding bloggers that produce worthwhile reads and great tweets. Whoever it is that you want to follow on twitter, everyone has someone to follow excitingly and don’t want to miss any blog or material posted by this person.

In order to sort these individuals for easy access to their blog posts and tweets, the Groups feature of TweetDeck can be used. Creating groups in Twitter is very simple. Just add the Twitter users you want to follow thoroughly on a separate Window provided by TweetDeck. This customizable pane displays only those people that you have interest with.

Utilizing the Search Feature

Most Twitter users give emphasis to several topics within their preference when it comes to following other people’s tweets. As for myself, I am focusing on posts that are relative to my interests such as Twitter news, Social Media and blogging concepts. I am much fascinated in following people that handle the same interests and share topics within the scope of these issues. A user can add a search window or pane using TweetDeck. The window tracks and searches for blog posts containing the specified keywords. Make sure to select keywords that are specifically unique since there are some keywords that are frequently used by thousands of people. Carefully choosing the keywords to be used on the search would lead you to people with the same interest as yourself.

You may also want to create a personalized search keyword for your Twitter account. Aside from the uniqueness and customizability of the account profile, it also enables quick accessibility features for those people who are following your tweets. This is very useful when it comes to searching users without attaching the @problogger at the end of the name. Some new Twitter users forget to add the @problogger at the name of their searches thus they sometimes fail to see what they needed. Thus you may take advantage of the Search feature in order to allow yourself be easily seen by others and at the same time sort those user which are special to you.

Filtering Unnecessary Words

Although the Filter feature is more commonly used to find posts that contain relative keywords, it may also be used to filter out words. This usable feature of TweetDeck can be applicable on managing the replies pane. If a pane gets a lot of retweets or RTs, it may sometimes flood the reply window since every RT that contains your name is repeatedly displayed. Although getting retweeted is a good thing for your Twitter account, there are several instances in which you miss important replies. Filtering out some of the RT’s can help you organize your reply windows and at the same time view more useful replies instead of the repetitive occurrence of RT’s.

Aside from the Filter window, you may also find another usable feature on TweetDeck. The “+” character found next to the Filter Window also does the same filtering function. When you input a certain keyword on the Filter, you may only view tweets that contain the specified word. Moreover, clicking the “+” would enable the filter and the “–” would also appear. The “-” can be used to remove the filtering words added previously. For example, adding the RT @problogger keyword to the Filter window would take effect by hiding other replies and leaving only those which are within your interests.

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