Sams Teach Yourself TweetDeck in 10 Minutes

Lesson 6. Tweeting and Posting

In this lesson, you learn how to create new tweets and status updates from within TweetDeck.

Creating a New Post

TweetDeck makes it easy to post to any of the major social networks. You can post directly to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and so on from within TweetDeck for Desktop. You can send a post to a given network individually or send the same post to multiple networks simultaneously.

To make a post, follow these steps:

1. Click the Compose Update button on the left side of the TweetDeck toolbar. This displays the message pane (what TweetDeck calls the Update Window) shown in Figure 6.1.

   Figure 6.1. Composing a new tweet or post.

2. Click the button for each network you want to post to. When a network is ...