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TweetDeck: The Secret Weapon for Boosting Your Twitter game

15 Ways to Totally Tame Twitter

Michael D. Callaghan
5 min readNov 22, 2022

Are you experiencing Post-Elon trauma in your Twitter experience? Are you uncertain how to proceed under Twitter’s new ownership? I’m going to share with you my not-so-secret strategy for dealing with Twitter and making the experience one that you can enjoy again.

TweetDeck

Introducing TweetDeck. I’m going to assume you’ve never heard of this tool, or maybe you’ve heard of it but never tried it. Hopefully, by the end of this article, you’ll want to give it a try.

TweetDeck is part of Twitter, so you aren’t using a third party tool. You log in with your Twitter credentials, just as you normally would on Twitter.

I started using TweetDeck years ago, long before Elon Musk ever thought about buying Twitter. Because of that, my Twitter experience hasn’t changed much (if at all) since Elon’s purchase was finalized.

No Ads!

For me, the first and best reason to use TweetDeck is that you won’t see any ads. No promoted tweets. Zero, zilch, nada. That’s probably because the entire experience has to be customized. When you set up your TweetDeck, which I will describe below, you control exactly what you see and from whom.

If TweetDeck did nothing else but prevent me…

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Michael D. Callaghan
Michael D. Callaghan

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