I was excited to learn about Tweet Grid ( http://www.tweetgrid.com ) this week and have been learning more about how it’s functional to my daily needs.
One of the things that has been frustrating to me about Twitter is that if you have many friends, there is a CONSTANT inundation of “tweets” (posts from other people). The Twitter wall has a maximum number of posts that it allows on you wall, and if you’re friends with even 50 people, a small number, then your wall quickly becomes overwhelmed by posts. To someone like myself, who doesn’t have the time to spend all morning watching Twitter, it is nearly impossible to keep up with all these posts. This is a sad thing because part of the point of Twitter is to have a conversation and keep people up to date on your life. Both of these are difficult if you can’t keep up with the posts.
Tweetgrid is essentially a Twitter filter. You can filter for what you’re interested in at any time and Tweetgrid will show you ANY posts on Twitter that includes those words. So, rather than just seeing the posts of those people you follow, you can literally follow anyone at any time or any topic. Right now, I have 6 grids open on Tweetgrid and I’m following 2 of my friends, so I see any post they send or any post sent to them. I’m also following myself so I can make sure and not miss any responses. Furthermore, I have 3 grids open which I’m following “Raleigh”, “WaMu” and “Wachovia”. Obviously, I could change any of these boxes to keep up with a news item or topic of interest to me that day.
The virtue of doing this is that it increases efficiency, both in the Real World and on Twitter. Most of us have news stories that we are following throughout the day. Rather than searching all over the place or even using the Twitter Search, Tweetgrid can be kept open on multiple stories, putting all your information in one place. Rather than searching all over the internet to find news, the news you’re looking for can come to you.
The point is to get more stuff done and waste less time looking for information.
You do not have to have a Twitter account to use Tweetgrid, but if you do you can post directly from Tweetgrid to Twitter. Kudos to jazzychad for coming up with Tweetgrid.
Thank you for letting me know about Tweetgrid. I tend to tweet a lot and I have warned people about that. I know some of my twitter people subscribed to my RSS feed because they said they enjoy all my tweeting although I do a lot of it and I am aware of it but that is just my style. Tweetgrid looks like it is right up my alley.
Thank you so much for the request to follow. This is a great beginning for me to know this and also a warning to you of my tweeting habits. It is impossible to keep with everyone! I don’t know how some people do it!