How to Monitor Tweets About You on TweetDeck
Tweetdeck is a social network monitoring application that helps users monitor their Facebook and Twitter accounts and various other social feeds. Many of these social services, including Twitter, offer features to "mention" someone in the context of an update. Tweetdeck offers the user specialized and grouped options for monitoring these mentions, essentially letting the user see where they are being talked about throughout their social graph.
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Instructions
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Monitoring Tweets About You in Desktop Tweetdeck
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Open Tweetdeck from your applications folder/section on your computer.
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Once in Tweetdeck, click the '+' button to add a new column.
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In the add column pop-up window, choose the Twitter icon under the heading 'Using account.'
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Select the Twitter account you want to use from the right side drop-down menu. If you only have one account, this should already be defaulted to your primary Twitter account.
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Under the 'Add column' heading, select "Core" in the left sidebar.
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Click "Mentions" to add a column that will show all the users who Tweeted about you recently.
Monitoring Tweets About You in other versions of Tweetdeck
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Open the Tweetdeck application on your device.
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Find the button/setting to add a new column on your device.
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Select the "Merged" or "Combined" option.
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Add a column titled "Me." It should now show up with your other columns in the Tweetdeck interface. Once in place, this column will keep track of all your mentions (including tweets about you) across all your accounts.
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Tips & Warnings
If you want to see more than just tweets that mention you, there are also options to monitor Twitter direct messages and Twitter search queries as separate columns in Tweetdeck.
