I’ve been using Twitter for months and have no idea what its good for, all I do know is that from my occasional random tweets there are a significant number of followers and I still have no idea why. However, I need to get a better grasp and I’m now helping to manage a Twitter account for someone else.

The first change is to choose a new front end interface. I have been using Twhirl - mostly because it also handled updates to Pownce - but Pownce is now dead/dormant.

For the moment I’m going with TweetDeck - it has a big footprint, you either have to be able to deal with overlapping windows or, like me, have a second monitor that it can sit on. Right now it takes the full width and 75% of the height, if I have IM up also, IM gets hidden. So far I kind of like it, but it is not ideal. It has a way of grouping those you are following, but the grouping requires tagging all the ones that are to be in the group - these probably being the ones you mainly want to follow. What I really need is a way to remove certain busy twitterers from the main list, and put them in a second group - the ones that are twittering a bit too much and hiding the ones I really want to follow.

Follow me at http://twitter.com/MacLeanDesign