I am sure you remember MonkeyFly a Twitter application which turns your twitter page into a dashboard. There is one more, not similar but quiet lookalike twitter application which is more inspired by Google Reader type of interface.
Tdash.org is a simple and nice browser based client for twitter which helps you organize your tweeting more effectively.
In a very first look I found it too simple and boring, but as I started exploring tdash, the features are really impressive and best to organize my twitter activities.
I would like to share it features, specialties and way to use.
Before that let me tell you that there is no need of registration on tdash, you can directly use tdash from your twitter username and password, it shortens long URLs with bit.ly
So let’s start with start!
You will notice a Left Column with the following selections
Left Column Options
- Friends
- Lists
- Folder
- Toolbox
- Trends
How it works?
Friends
- Friends is the list of number of people you are following on Twitter
- The number mention in bracket with every username are their no. of tweets you did not read
- If you click a particular username, you will see their number of latest tweets in center of page. As soon as you mark all read the username will disappear from the list till it get refresh again
- All friends are listed alphabetically, it is arranged in a manner that you will not miss any important tweets.
- After selecting a particular tweet, you can easily reply, retweet, fav or quick RT.
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Lists
- Lists is the same feature of List on your twitter account, tdash shows the complete lists in same way it shows for “Friends”
- The number you might notice in the bracket is the number of tweets in a particular list you haven’t yet read.
- It works exactly same like Friends
- You can reply, retweet or quick rt. You will see an option of DM only if the username is following you too.
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Folders
- Folders contain another 4 different folders like Mentions, Inbox, Outbox and Favorites
- In Mentions you can the whole conversation in “threaded way”, this is best to know how the talk went.
- Inbox and Outbox are your received and sent DMs
- Favorite is the list of all your starred tweets
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Tool Box
- This is one very interesting and useful feature to underline the clicks you did lastly.
- A click, to be precise is a link attached with a tweet you find interesting to click.
- This feature will help you to get back to the link you might forget.
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Trends
- All top 10 twitter trends listed in this folder.
Multiple Accounts
I won’t miss one more good option in left column, check the top of left column, you will find an option where you can switch to another twitter account. Tdash allows you to enter multiple accounts.
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Center or Main area of tdash
From top:
- That empty white box is an area to update your tweet.
- Right below it is “fetch now” is just another word of “refresh” this will refresh the data and update all latest tweets after you read or marked it “mark folder as read”
- Share a picture allows you to upload any pic from your desktop, as soon as you upload, it will directly publish to your twitter account and generate a direct link to it.
- Next to share a photo, you can list newer or older tweets on top.
- Next and the last option is “More”. Select the drop down which says “theme” you can choose many good theme to change the look of your tdash dashboard.
