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The Future of TweetDeck

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I wrote a post about the potential of Twitter to buy TweetDeck just two weeks ago. (To A lot of doom and gloom if you believe the people over at TechCrunch (they also broke the story that a deal was done between TweetDeck and Twitter on Monday). I don’t buy the doom and gloom declaring the end of TweetDeck.

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What If Twitter Did Buy TweetDeck?

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around the Twitterverse last week with the news that Twitter is in talks with TweetDeck to purchase the ridiculously popular third-party service for the low, low price of just $50 million. Considering UberMedia was rumored to be in the mix to buy TweetDeck for $30 million just a few weeks ago, that’s very interesting news.

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Big Research Smarts for Small Budgets

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It’s a post by Andrew Hutchinson on Social Media Today , which has been languishing in my inbox for a while. As you catch up on your reading, I thought I’d point you to a very interesting read on using Twitter to extract meaningful insights. It’s quite a long read, but well worth it. Tweets sharing links are excluded.

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On The Death Of Google Reader

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TweetDeck is constantly up in the background, and with the wide diversity of people I follow, I find more interesting articles than I could ever find on my own with an RSS feed. He does social media management for KimberMedia and teaches for @bgckids. On The Death Of Google Reader is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical.

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That Time Our Website Was Hacked

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My Tweetdeck has three columns dedicated to the University: “University of Regina,” “@UofRegina,” and “U of Regina.”. This was the first time social media had been on our department’s radar during a situation like this. Generally our eyes and ears are focused on traditional media (print, radio, television).

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The Dos and Don’ts of a Social Media Automation Strategy

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And with more than 3 billion users online , that amounts to almost 2 billion social network users. The sheer amount of traffic that social media sites see every day makes it an insurmountable task to manage multiple social profiles manually. Social media automation addresses this challenge beautifully.

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Twitter and Guinea Pig Worry

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As a rule I like to channel my inner bitterness into lengthy rants about social media transgression. They aren’t serious about building a strong social network. The more experienced tweeter will use Tweetdeck, HootSuite, or something similar. I picked Tweetdeck because I liked the colors.

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