Still with me?

Tweetdeck is a desktop Twitter application. It requires Adobe Air installed on your desktop to run. The cool thing is that you can run the same applications in Windows, Mac, and most times, Linux. I’m a fan of Air as a platform in and of itself, but let’s not talk about that right now.

What’s great about Tweetdeck is the multi-pane view. If you notice in the picture above, I have four columns. One is for general tweets. Another is for replies to me. A third is for searches on the word “Brogan” because sometimes people don’t form a proper/clean @chrisbrogan reply to me. The fourth allows me to see direct messages.

That’s all in one view, and it updates frequently, meaning that I have the perfect dashboard for working Twitter.

Another decent Air client is Twhirl, owned now by Loic Lemeur’s Seesmic. I like that one, too, but I’m using Tweetdeck.

Why? Because Tweetdeck gives me a huge dashboard view of Twitter, and I can configure it to do many things, including search for topics of interest, group users into bunches, and more.

If you’re looking for a powerful communications dashboard, my vote’s with Tweetdeck. Since these upgrades, it’s better than ever.

How are you using Twitter?