If you are a fairly heavy Twitter user, you are likely aware of some of the tools that can help you manage your twitter account. If you have not yet tried Tweetdeck, I urge you to do so. It is the tool that has allowed me to truly interact with people on Twitter because it lets me view multiple streams simultaneously. I can see my direct messages, any mentions, and specific lists I’m following all on a single screen. Tweetdeck has saved me countless hours and it’s available on smart phones and even has a handy Chrome extension.

I’ve tried a number of Twitter clients out there from Hootsuite, CoTweet, and Echofon and I always come to find that TweetDeck is the tool for me.

What is Tweetdeck?

It’s an application you download and install on your computer or run in your browser. It interfaces with your twitter account allowing you to read and post tweets.

What is does is take your Twitter feed and it breaks it down into much more manageable and bit-sized chunks. It uses columns and allows you to split your feed into different sections. You can separate your direct messages, mentions, @replies, lists, and searches with a number of other handy tools built right in. If you do a lot of witter searches then you will find the ability to monitor multiple searches simultaneously very useful.

Simple, Fast & Easy

Installing tweetdeck is easy regardless of what you want to run it on. Just visit www.tweetdeck.com and pick the device you want to install it on, whether it’s desktop, Android, iPhone or the Chrome browser plugin. Then you are just a couple clicks away from installing it on your device. Open the program and input your twitter login.

Great Built-in Features

I mentioned a few of the features are the beginning of this post .

• It allows you to manage multiple account include Facebook, Linkedin, Foursquare, and more.
• View the current trending topics
• Great conversation management  features
• Schedule tweets and facebook posts ahead of time
• Even let people know where you are going to be ahead of time via Foursquare

Overall, TweetDeck seems to be the best all-in-one tools out there right now. It’s simple, it’s well designed and thought out, it run across multiple platforms and it does just about everything a small or medium business would need it to do.