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HD Tutorial: TweetDeck

2009-04-26
hey what's up everyone welcome to another h2 tutorial from mkbhd and this one I'll be showing you guys how to download and install TweetDeck so basically TweetDeck is obviously a twitter client if you haven't used twitter before my twitter link is on my page you can follow me on twitter to get basically exclusive updates when i'm uploading a video when i'm when i'm away stuff like that so basically go to any major search engine you can a AOL Yahoo Google anything like that and type in TweetDeck and it will be the first link there TweetDeck com once you click on TweetDeck com it'll take you to the beta website it's version zero point two point five and I basically just hit the download now button it is free is a very full version and it runs on the Adobe AIR platform for Mac OS 10 for Windows and for Linux as I'm here we got it will open up the Adobe application install you're going to have to install and allow everything and just continue and if you AC does pop up and just hit continue so yeah we're going into the installation process here it's installing the application and as its doing us I'll talk a little bit about TweetDeck it is it has a big it's a really nice powerful and fast Twitter client it does have Facebook integration so you can update your Twitter status through your Facebook status through here so now that has been fully downloaded and installed I'm gonna exit out of our web browser and what we can do see we've got an icon on our desktop and first thing it does is open up TweetDeck so here's what it looks like alright let's wait for it to finish actually I'm not signed in but I'm just going to see this icon here I am signed in so here's what it looks like when you're fully signed in obviously I have a ton of messages and replies and stuff I'll just click on it so basically a tweet deck is a really full-fledged Twitter client right now I have three columns open the all friends people who I'm following whatever you want to call them those are all their updates in the middle I have replies so people who have replied at mkbhd and on the right hand side are all the direct messages so if you are wondering I haven't answered any direct messages as I was I uninstalled tweet Dex to do a redo I'm doing a tutorial on it so I'm just gonna minimize it here and it does minimize to the system tray and I see this icon here on a desktop we're gonna want to put that up in our communications tab somewhere next to Skype all I got to do is just drag it in so there we go and it's it's in the communications folder now a lot of people say well I want TweetDeck to start with my computer kind of like a I am used to all you have to do is take a TweetDeck icon drag it to the Start menu hold it hover it over all programs and you have to go and just drag down all the way until you get to the startup folder and the startup folder is where you have all the things that let's start with Windows so like maybe you have a I am starting with Windows maybe you have Skype you can get Skype to start with Windows so I'm just gonna scroll down and drag TweetDeck to the Start menu the startup folder so just hover over startup and then drag it somewhere inside there let go so TweetDeck is now in the startup folder so now whenever you start up your computer TweetDeck will open up so if you're wondering where it went that I minimized it down here in the system tray see this little icon right here double click it and TweetDeck opens up so you now have TweetDeck you can obviously tweet using a tweet button right there doing recording video hit the enter button it sends your tweet out if you do on the right-hand side want to attach Facebook to this you can also that would be your facebook status if you have a URL you want to share you can post paste that URL there shorten it and then send your tweet you can also attach a picture you can obviously shrink the update if it's more than your 140 characters but I basically this is just the installation video so if you do want a full review video I'm planning on getting to that very soon anyway this has been a brief TweetDeck installation tutorial I hope this was helpful to you and if you're not already following me on Twitter the link is in the description in this video and that's basically it so thanks for watching peace
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