Welcome to All your TweetDeck Questions Answered, the blog post that has grown from a few words of advice into the most comprehensive list available of frequently-asked questions (FAQs) about TweetDeck.
I hope that you find these FAQs helpful. If you did, do let me know either by leaving a comment or reaching out to me on Twitter (@richardbarley).
And if you know of anyone else who is new to TweetDeck and looking for some tips, why not help them out by directing them to this site? They’ll think you’re a great friend and I’ll love you forever (in an author/reader kind of way, nothing funny…)
If you leave this post thinking “darn, he never did answer my question”, then I want to know about it. If there’s a question about TweetDeck that you want answered, let me know and I’ll see if I can add it into the list. If I feature a question you suggested (or an answer you provided), I’ll give you my thanks and a link to your site, so don’t be shy!
The TweetDeck FAQs
- TweetDeck takes up too much space. Can I resize the columns?
- That notification sound is rather annoying. Can I turn it off?
- I liked getting the TwitterCounter statistics in my stream. How do I get it back?
- Some tweets go over 140 characters but these do not get fully displayed in TweetDeck. Can I quickly see the tweet on the web site?
- How do I see which tweet a tweet is in reply to?
- I get fed up with seeing the notification for new tweets in my All Friends column. Can I turn that off?
- What is the API? And why is my “Rate limit exceeded”?
- How can I mark a tweet as Favourite? And how do I remove it from my favourites?
- I know I can use TweetDeck to keep up with my friends tweets, but can I stay up-to-date with what is being discussed on Twitter generally?
- How do I see my list of followers in TweetDeck? How about the list of people who I follow?
- How do I search for people in TweetDeck like I can on the Twitter website?
- Why are links that I click in TweetDeck not opening in my default browser?
- Why don’t all my friends show up in the list when I’m creating a group?
- How do I use the TwitterKeys characters in TweetDeck?
- I tweet from more than one Twitter account. Can I easily handle both accounts in TweetDeck?
- My TweetDeck columns are full of tweets. How can I filter what I see?
- What’s all the recent fuss about 12seconds? What does that “12″ button do?
- Why does TweetDeck take up so much memory?
- Is there an easy way to upload photos from TweetDeck? Is that TwitPic?
- I use TweetDeck on two different computers. Can I sync my settings on both machines?
- I sometimes struggle to fit my message into just 140 characters. Is there an easy way to compress my tweet?
- How does Search work in TweetDeck? Why am I still receiving notifications for a search I performed ages ago?
- How do I use groups to organise my Tweets?
- What is ReTweeting and how do I do it inTweetDeck?
- I use Facebook as well as Twitter. Is there a way of interacting with my Facebook friends in TweetDeck?
- Why do my DMs and @replies take a long time to appear in TweetDeck?
- Something’s wrong! My TweetDeck is broken! Should I give up and move to another client?
- I love TweetDeck but don’t like the black colour. Can I change it?
- My “Replies” column is empty. What’s going on?
- My TweetDeck is linked to the wrong FaceBook account. How do I change this? *New*
- I changed my Twitter password and now TweetDeck says “Not Authorised” – what do I do? *New*
1. TweetDeck takes up too much space. Can I resize the columns?
You cannot size the columns freely, but there is the option to choose “Narrow columns” under settings.
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2. That notification sound is rather annoying. Can I turn it off?
Yes indeed you can. Just go to Settings and untick “Play notification sound” then your notifications will all be silent.
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3. I liked getting the TwitterCounter statistics in my stream. How do I get it back?
This feature, that inserted an automatic tweet into your Replies column containing statistics from the TwitterCounter service (Follower numbers etc.). This has now been made an optional, manual function. i.e. you have to click a button to generate a statistics tweet each time you want it.
To generate a TwitterCounter tweet, go to Settings > Services and press the TwitterCounter button.
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4. Some tweets go over 140 characters but these do not get fully displayed in TweetDeck. Can I quickly see the tweet on the web site?
Yes! Just click on the date and time under a tweet to be taken to the web version, which will show all the message if it is over 140 characters.
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5. How do I see which tweet a tweet is in reply to?
In your “All friends”, “Replies” and “Group” columns you will see the text “in reply to…” under a tweet that is a reply. Click that text to be taken to the original tweet to which this tweet is replying.
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6. I get fed up with seeing the notification for new tweets in my All Friends column. Can I turn that off?
Yes you can! Go to Settings and untick “Include All Friends notifications”. You will now no longer receive notifications for new tweets in your All Friends column. Notifications for all other columns are unaffected.
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7. What is the API? And why is my “Rate limit exceeded”?
The Twitter API is basically the part of the Twitter service that allows 3rd-party applications like TweetDeck to access the Twitter data and functions.
Every Twitter account can make 100 “calls” to the API per hour. So when TweetDeck updates the “All Friends” column, that takes 1 call. The same applies to the Replies and Direct Mesage columns. Viewing a user profile within TweetDeck (rather than using the new “View profile on the web” option) also consumes calls – 3 per profile view in fact.
If you use up all your 100 calls within an hour, you will see the mesage “Rate limit exceeded” and will be unable to make any more calls until your API allowance is reset for the next hour.
You can keep track of your API usage in the top-right corner of TweetDeck.
In the example above, I have 81 of my 100 calls remaining this hour. My allowance will reset back to 100 at 16:53.
If you do run out of API calls, you can still continue to send tweets, but you wont get any more updates in All Friends, Replies or Direct Messages. Search and Group columns will still continue to update though. And of course you can switch to using www.twitter.com if you need to check replies in the meantime.
Iain Dodsworth has a great article which goes over this subject in more detail here.
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8. How can I mark a tweet as Favourite? And how do I remove it from my favourites?
You can mark a tweet as a “favourite”, which is rather like bookmarking a web page in your browser.
In TweetDeck, to favourite a tweet, hover over a profile picture next to the tweet and click on Other Actions > Favourite.
This will add the tweet to your favourites. You can add a Favourites column to your TweetDeck by clicking the Favourites button at the top-left.
This column will just show those tweets that you have marked as a Favourite.
If you want to remove a tweet from your favourites, locate the tweet in your Favourites column, hover over the profile picture on the tweet and click Other Actions > Favourite. The tweet will be removed from your list of favourites.
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9. I know I can use TweetDeck to keep up with my friends tweets, but can I stay up-to-date with what is being discussed on Twitter generally?
It’s easy to spot topics that are popular on the whole of Twitter if you add a TwitScoop column. Do this by clicking the TwitScoop button in the top-left.
This will create a TwitScoop column, which pulls data from www.twitscoop.com about topics that are “buzzing” right now. This column will automatically update so you can always see which are the hot topics of the moment.
Clicking on one of the terms in the Twitscoop column will take you to the Twitscoop websitea where you will see the recent tweets on this topic, along with a chart showing the popularity of the topic over time.
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10. How do I see my list of followers in TweetDeck? How about the list of people who I follow?
At the moment there is no way to view a list of your followers, or those that follow you, within TweetDeck itself. To see this information you have to visit your own profile on the Twitter website.
You can view your Twitter website profile in two ways from TweetDeck, depending on how you have your settings configured.
If you have “Open profiles in web page” ticked, you just need to click on your own name somewhere in TweetDeck (in an @reply or under one of your own tweets.
If you do not have “Open profiles in web page” ticked, open your profile in TweetDeck by clicking on your name, then clicking on the URL of your Twitter page e.g. www.twitter.com/richardbarley
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11. How do I search for people in TweetDeck like I can on the Twitter website?
There is no “people search” function in TweetDeck per se, but you can still find people by using a search column and searching for their username.
If you do not know the username, searching for the persons name may throw up some tweets that might help locate the username you require.
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12. Why are links that I click in TweetDeck not opening in my default browser?
You may find that hyperlinks in TweetDeck do not open in the browser you expect. You may also notice that if you copy & paste a link from TweetDeck that it starts with “Event:”. This is generally a problem with Adobe Air and Windows.
For Vista, see the support article from Adobe here, but essentially the solutions is as follows:
- Select Start > Default Programs > Set Program Access And Computer Defaults.
- Click Continue in the Security Alert dialog box, if it appears.
- Select Custom, and then select your preferred browser under Choose A Default Web Browser; click OK.
For Windows XP, the solution is pretty much the same, but here’s a link that explains it all very nicely with screenshots. Thanks to @InsultComicDog for pointing that out to me.
For Windows 2000 Professional, set your default web browser using the instructions here. Thanks to Matt Wardman for the link
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13. Why don’t all my friends show up in the list when I’m creating a group?
When creating a group column, the list of friends that is displayed only shows a subset of your total fiends list. This has been done deliberately to save on both time and API calls (see Question 7) because the Twitter API only allows fetching of 100 friends per call. If you have 2000 friends, that would be 20 API calls and quite a wait.
The list of friends available to pick from starts with your most active friends, and grows over time.
Iain explains the situation in more detail over on his blog here.
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14. Can I use the TwitterKeys/Unicode characters in TweetDeck?
Yes you can, but with some restrictions.
If you are a fan of the Twitterkeys site, that allows you to enter special characters into your tweets, like ♥ ☺ and ♫, then you may have noticed that these characters do not show up by default in your tweets from TweetDeck.
In order to make use of these symbols, you must enable the “International Font” under settings.
With this font selected you should now be able to see some of the Twitterkeys characters. Note that not all the characters will show up. After some extensive testing (thanks @richardwiles and @sean_lin for helping!), this is the list of characters that do work in TweetDeck. Copy & paste them from the Twitterkey bookmark popup (as explaiuned on the Twitterkeys site), or just grab them from here:
♥ ☺ ♠ ☻ ♫ ♪ ♀ ♂ ☼ © ® ™ … ∞ € £ ƒ $ ≤ ≥ ∑ « » ç ∫ µ ◊ ı ∆ Ω ≈ * § • ¶ ¬ † & ¡ ¿ ø å ∂ œ Æ æ π ß ÷ ‰ √ ≠ % ˚ ˆ ˜ ˘ ¯ ∑ º ª ?
The International font is also useful if you want to read tweets in languages that use special characters in the alphabet, e.g. Russian, Chinese etc
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15. I tweet from more than one Twitter account. Can I easily handle both accounts in TweetDeck?
The answer here is “Not yet”. Currently there is no support for tweeting from multiple accounts in one TweetDeck session. In order to tweet from a different account, you must first log out, using the Log Out (change password) button in the top-right.
This will shut down TweetDeck and log you out.
When you restart TweetDeck you will be prompted for your Twitter username and password. You can now log in using your alternate account.
This issue is very high on the list of functions to be offered in an upcoming major release of TweetDeck, so watch this space for a more elegant solution to multiple accounts in the very near future.
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16. My TweetDeck columns are full of tweets. How can I filter what I see?
TweetDeck is truly great for gathering and organising tweets from all over the twitterverse, but sometimes you do want to narrow your view somewhat and filter your tweets.
There are filter options at the bottom of each column:
Clicking this button will reveal the filter options available to you.
You can choose to filter by the following four options:
- Tweet Text – the actual text of the tweet, including any URLs
- Username – the Twitter username of the person who sent the tweet
- Source – via which service the tweet was posted e.g. Web, TweetDeck, Twhirl, Dabr etc.
- Timeframe – the number of hours between the date the tweet was sent and the current time
Select the option from the list that you wish to filter by – only one filter can be in place on each column for now.
Next, select wether you want to filter by including or excluding by selecting + to include or - to exclude
Filtering by including would result in your column ONLY showing tweets that match the text you enter in your filter.
Filtering by excluding would result in your column containing all tweets EXCEPT those that match the text you enter in your filter.
Depending on how you want to narrow your column down, decide which method will work best.
Finally, enter the text that you wish to filter by.
As you type, the tweets in the column will start to be filtered based on the options you have chosen. In the example above, this column would show only tweets that contain the characters “air” within the tweet text.
If I had chosen the following configuration…
…then the column would be filtered to contain only tweets that do not contain the characters “air” in the tweet text.
Some more examples:
This will exclude all tweets from the column that were sent by the username “iaindodsworth”.
This will filter the column to only display tweets that were sent by awesome mobile Twitter site Dabr.
This will filter the column to only include tweets from the last 2 hours.
To remove the filter from a column, just click on the X at the end of the filter.
It is important to note at presently the filters you create in this manner are not persistent i.e. when you close and reopen TweetDeck any filters you created will have been removed.
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17. What’s all the recent fuss about 12seconds? What does that “12″ button do?
TwetDeck got a new update today that allows you to post video “tweets” from inside TweetDeck. I have covered this in detail on this blog here: New TweetDeck brings 12seconds video to the desktop
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18. Why does TweetDeck take up so much memory?
One of the biggest complaints about TweetDeck is that it uses up too many resources, and this is true. THere does appear to be an issue with TweetDeck eating up large portions of your PC’s available RAM over time, especially if you have a large number of search columns pulling in a high volume of tweets.
Iain Dodsworth has acknowledged the problem and has confirmed that he is making it a top priority to be addresses in the next major release of TweetDeck. However, part of the problem does lie with the Adobe Air platform which TweetDeck is built upon, and other Air applications suffer similar issues. TweetDeck highlights the problem more than others due to its complexity and volume of data.
In the meantime, I suggest simply closing down and restarting TweetDeck a few times through the day (something that I often have to do with Firefox). This frees up all the resources it was using and TweetDeck will start up again with a more sensible amount.
As a guide, on my laptop I have 2gb RAM and only need to restart TweetDeck a couple of times a day. On my home PC I only have a tiny 512mb RAM and find I have to restart TweetDeck every couple of hours.
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19. Is there an easy way to upload photos from TweetDeck? Is that TwitPic?
Yes it is! TwitPic is a photo-sharing service that integrates with Twitter and TweetDeck has a really easy way to post a TwitPic photo directly in the application.
Underneath the tweet box is the TwitPic button.
Click this button and you will be prompted to select a photo from your PC.
Select your photo and click “Open”.
TweetDeck will then start uploading your photo to the TwitPic site.
Once uploaded, you will be left with a short twitpic.com link in your tweetbox.
This link will take people directly to the photo you have just uploaded. You can now add some text to go along with your link if you want, explaining what the photo is etc. This is now just like sending a normal tweet.
Send the tweet and you’re all done. Folks can click the link in your tweet and it will take them to the TwitPic site, where they can see the photo and comment on it if they want to. Comments people make will be tweeted to you as an @reply.
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20. I use TweetDeck on two different computers. Can I sync my settings on both machines?
There is no official solution to this at present, but one is planned and will hopefully be with us soon.
In the meantime, here’s a great article by that seems to give a pretty good workaround using online file storage sites such as Dropbox.
I haven’t tried this myself as I’m limited to one PC at the moment, but it looks like it has worked for some follks, so may be worth giving it a go.
If anyone has a solution for other operating systems, let me know and I’ll add a link and a shout out here.
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21. I sometimes struggle to fit my message into just 140 characters. Is there an easy way to compress my tweet?
Yes there is! TweetDeck includes an integration to the TweetShrink service, which will take your long message and attempt to shorten it so it fits into a 140-character tweet.
To shorten your tweet in TweetDeck, type your long message in the tweet box and click the TweetShrink button:
This will shrink your tweet, using abbreviations and shortcuts, so that it fits into a standard tweet.
Then just send your tweet as normal.
The result isn’t always fantastic, and some shortened tweets may need tweaking before sending, but it’s a good start if you just have to say that bit more and it won’t all fit in.
This quote from the TweetShrink website says it all:
Shrinking tweets is neither an art nor a science. Just a guesstimation which can be tweaked, poked, and prodded. Sometimes the results are helpful, sometimes they are laughable. But what’s important is that we try. Hopefully the result is enjoyable, usable, and fun.
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22. How does Search work in TweetDeck? Why am i still receiving notifications for a search I performed ages ago?
TweetDeck is all about search, but how does it actually work?
TweetDeck allows you to set up search columns – columns that are populated by tweets matching the criteria you specify – which auto-update every minute using data from the Twitter Search API.
To create a search column, click the Search icon at the top-left.
You will then be prompted “What are you searching for?”. Here’s where you enter your keywords. To start with, just enter one keyword.
This search column is going to look for occurrences of the word “tweetdeck” in any tweets and display them in the column. Click the magnifying glass icon to create the search column.
Don’t forget, the column will be added to the right of your right-most existing column, so you may have to scroll across to see it.
Your search column will start by displaying the most recent 100 tweets (a limit of the API) containing your keyword. It will refresh every minute, adding any new tweets found and generating a notification message (if you have them turned on):
This is why you may find you continue to get notified about searches you performed a long time ago. The search created a search column and it is still sitting there refreshing every minute.
To remove the column, and hence stop the notifications, just click the X in the top-right corner of the search column…
…then click the delete icon on the confirmation box.
As the warning says, once you have deleted a search column, you cannot restore it – you will have to recreate a new search column using the same search parameters.
So you now know how to create a search column for one keyword. But you can get smarter than that, as the search function will accept OR, AND and phrases in quotes.
So you could have a search column looking for tweets containing both TweetDeck AND Twhirl:
Note that if you use AND or OR they must be in CAPS.
Here’s a column looking for tweets containing either Tweetdeck OR Twhirl:
Phrase searches can be performed by putting your phrase into “quotes“
For a full list of advanced search operators, you can view this help page from the Twitter Search site. All the examples there should work in TweetDeck, apart from the “near” and “within” operators, which will not work in a TweetDeck search.
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23. How do I use groups to organise my Tweets?
One of TweetDeck’s great features is the ability to collect your friends into groups. This is an invaluable function when you have more than a few dozen friends as it allows you to focus your attention on different groups of people in different ways.
You could have a “Celebs” group for all those tweeting celebrities, a “Work colleagues” group for all the folk at the office, or maybe a “Really helpful” group for people who always tweet helpful hints.
However you choose to group your friends, it is very easy to achieve.
To create a group, click the group icon on in the top-left of TweetDeck.
This will display the list of your most active friends (see number 13 above for an explanation of this). Enter a name for the group and tick the boxes next to the friends you wish to add to this group.
When you have ticked all the friends you require, click the Save Goup button at the bottom of the list.
This will then add a column to your TweetDeck (to the right of all your other columns) containing all the recent tweets from the people you added to the group. This column will auto-refresh every time the All Friends column refreshes.
If you want to change the group membership, you have several different methods at your disposal.
a) You can click on a group header…
…which will display the list of friends that you saw earlier. Tick the friends you want, as before, and click “Save Group”.
b) You can add someone to a group directly from one of their tweets, either by clicking the [+] button next to their name…
…or by clicking “Other Actions”…
…and then clicking “Add to group”
Both of these actions will pop up the list of groups. Select the group(s) you wish to add this person to and click the cross in the top-right.
c) You can add someone to a group from their profile page. Just click the Groups button at the bottom of a profile screen in TweetDeck.
This will pop up the group selection screen as seen in b) above. Tick the groups you wish to add this person to and click the cross.
Once you have created all your groups, you may want to turn off notifications for the All Friends column and just be notified about new tweets in your group columns. You can do this under Settings, by ticking “Show notification window” and unticking “Include All Friends notifications”
This will stop you from receiving notifications when you get new tweets in your “All Friends” column. You will receive notifications for tweets that appear in your groups, replies, Direct message and search columns.
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24. What is Re-tweeting and how do I do it in TweetDeck?
Re-tweeting is a bit like forwarding an email. When you see a tweet that you want to share with your friends, you can re-tweet it so everyone who follows you will see it.
Items are generally re-tweeted when they are particularly interesting, funny or insightful. A tweet that has been re-tweeted multiple times can very quickly spread to many thousands of people so is a great way of sharing important news.
To re-tweet in TweetDeck, just hover over the profile picture next to a tweet and click the “Retweet” button:
This will copy the text of that tweet, prefixed by the original tweeter’s username, into your tweet box.
You can now just send your tweet as normal.
However, you may want to add a comment to the re-tweet, for which there are various conventions. My personal favourite is to add “<<” to the end, followed by my comment. So on the above re-tweet I may want to comment like this:
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25. I use Facebook as well as Twitter. Is there a way of seeing my Facebook friends in TweetDeck?
Yes there is! Test release v0.24 of TweetDeck introduced some great new features to allow you to interact with your Facebook friends from within TweetDeck, including viewing friends’ status updates, posting a status update to Twitter and/or Facebook and initiating Facebook chat with a friend.
I have covered these new features in great detail here, so you should find all the information you need there.
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26. Why do my DMs and @replies take a long time to appear in TweetDeck?
All your tweets arrive into TweetDeck via the Twitter API (see number 7 above). The rate at which the different tweets arrive is governed by your settings on the “Twitter API” tab.
The 3 sliders represent the 3 types of tweet that TweetDeck recieves: All Friends (those in the All Friends column and any group columns), Replies and DMs (Direct messages).
Moving the slider changed the % of the APi limit you wish to use in collecting each type of tweet, remembering that Search columns are, in practice, not limited.
As you adjust the %, you will notice the polling time changing over on the right-hand side of the slider. This indicates how long it will be between each “batch” of new tweets in this category.
So, in my example above, I will recieve new tweets into my “All friends” and groups columns every 3 minutes. I will receive @replies every 1 minute, and i will get my DMs into TweetDeck every 30 minutes.
Incidentally, I am not too bothered about getting DMs into TweetDeck quickly, as I receive an email and an SMS pretty much straight away, so I have TweetDeck just pick them up later.
So, if you are finding your tweets are not arriving quick enough, try adjusting these settings. But remember, don’t set it so that the total API is above 100% or you will be constantly running out of API calls. In fact, keeping it down to about 80% is best, but this is described in more detail in number 7.
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27. Something’s wrong! My TweetDeck is broken! Should I give up and move to another client?
Woah, hold on now. There’s no need to go abandoning TweetDeck just because there’s a problem.
As I explained up in number 7, TweetDeck uses the Twitter API to get all its data. Other than the Facebook status updates (which come direct from Facebook), there is no other source of data for TweetDeck.
So… if the Twitter API goes down, or is having a bad day, you will find that TweetDeck has problems too.
This may manifest itself in different ways.
a) You may find you have “0/0″ remaining API calls in the top-right of your TweetDeck screen
b) You may see a message in the bottom-right that there is a “Problem with @replies” feed, or “All Friends” feed
c) You may see “there is a problem – don’t panic” in the bottm-right
d) You may see “Twitter problem, please try again” to the left of the tweet box when you try to send a tweet
e) You may see “Update failed” in the bottom-left of TweetDeck
Each of these messages is an indication of something going wrong trying to fetch data from or send data to Twitter. Pretty much all of these errors can be blamed on a loss of internet connection, or the API being down.
If you are experiencing trouble with TweetDeck, try these steps:
i) Can you access normal websites ok? If not, it’s clearly a problem with your internet connection. If the web is fine, then its likely a Twitter problem
ii) Go to the Twitter Status blog here: http://status.twitter.com Are there any currently reported issues listed there? If so, keep checking back to see when they are fixed. Twitter are not very quick at updating this site, so there may well be a problem, even though it is not listed here.
iii) Go to Twitter Search here: http://search.twitter.com and search for “tweetdeck”. Do you see tweets from other people complaining about TweetDeck behaving odly? If you do, it’s very likely a general Twitter API issue
iv) If all else fails, tweet @tweetdeck or me @richardbarley from www.twitter.com (the Twitter website doesn’t use the API so should generally be available) and ask for help.
But, above all…
DON’T PANIC
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28. I love TweetDeck but don’t like the black colour. Can I change it?
Yes you can! You really can tailor TweetDeck to suit your own personality by setting the colours of virtually all aspects of the application.
To access the colour settings, click on Settings > Colors/Fonts.
Then click on one of the colour boxes that you wish to change.
This will reveal a colour palette window. 
On this window you can either:
- click the colour you want from the grid
- or enter the HEX number that represents the colour in the box at the top and press Enter
This will change the colour of that aspect of the TweetDeck interface to the colour you have selected.
Repeat this for each of the different colour boxes to complete your colour scheme.
Here’s a guide showing which box changes which area of the TweetDeck screen.
Set your colours as you want them and you are good to go!
If you want to go back to the default black and grey colour scheme, just click the “Reset Colors” button
All your custom colours will be lost and you will be back to the standard colour scheme again.
Sharing your colours
If you have come up with a super-stylish colour-scheme and you want to share it with the world, you can click the “Tweet colors” button.
This will take the HEX codes for each of your colour settings and inserts them into the tweet box, ready for you to send.
Your friends can then copy and paste your colour values into their own colour settings and then they too will be able to use TweetDeck in your super-stylish colour scheme.
Likewise, if you see a similar tweet from your friends, copy and paste each number into the colour palette box in turn to replicate your friend’s colour scheme.
And while we’re on the subject of sharing colours, why not check out TweetDeckColorSchemes.com by Royce Fullerton. Its a very simple little site that is just aggregating TweetDeck colour scheme tweets and showing them as a colour palette. You can click through to the tweet and grab the colours from there. Simple, but cool.
Setting the icon brightness
On a related note, you can also change the brightness of the TweetDeck icons.
Back on the colour settings screen there are two sliders:
Adjust these sliders to sete the initial brightness of the icons within the TweetDeck user interface. When you hover over an icon it will always “glow” with full brightness.
Here is a guide showing which icons are affected by the two sliders:
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29. My “Replies” column is empty. What’s going on?
A bug was found in versions 0.24.2 and 0.21.5 that was causing some people to end up with an empty replies column. This bug has now been fixed and rolled into the download versions available from TweetDeck.com.
So if you have an empty Replies column, try reinstalling using the following links:
v0.21.5 (latest FULL release): http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
v0.24.2 (latest TEST release – with Facebook integration): http://tweetdeck.posterous.com
If reinstalling still doesn’t fix the problem, please contact @iaindodsworth or @richardbarley for further guidance.
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30. My TweetDeck is linked to the wrong FaceBook account. How do I change this?
If you created your Facebook column in TweetDeck and linked it to one account, but now need to change it to link to another account, here’s what you need to do.
In TweetDeck, delete your Facebook column by clicking the X in the top-right of the column.
Then click on the trash can to confirm deletion.
Close down TweetDeck.
Go to http://www.facebook.com and login using the account that is currently associated with the TweetDeck column.
Click on Settings > Account Settings.
This will show the list of Facebook “applications” you are using. We need to filter this list to be able to see TweetDeck, so change the “show” dropdown to “Authorised”.
This will show all applications that you gave authorised to access your Facebook account.
Locate TweetDeck in this list and click the X next to it on the right.
This will bring up a box asking for confirmation. Click Remove. PLease note, this is not uninstalling the actual TweetDeck applicatiuon itself, just the authorisation for it to access this Facebook account.
If all is well, you will then recieve confirmation that the TweetDeck authorisation has been removed. Click OK.
You have now successfully removed the link between TweetDeck and the current Facebook account. You should now sign out of this Facebook account and go back to TweetDeck to re-add your Facebook column.
Instructions for adding a Facebook column are given here Facebook updates, posting and chat come to TweetDeck, under “Adding a Facebook column”.
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31. I changed my Twitter password and now TweetDeck says “Not Authorised” – what do I do?
When you change your Twitter password, any site or application that accesses your Twitter account via your user ID and password will also need updating. This includes TweetDeck.
When you first logged into TweetDeck, you provided one user ID/password combination, but once you change your password, these become invalid, hence the “Not Authorised” message in the bottom right-hand corner of the TweetDeck screen.
In order to put things right, follow this procedure:
Log out of TweteDeck by clicking the Logout button in the top-right toolbar
This will log you out of TweetDeck and will close the application.
Then go to the Twitter website (http://www.twitter.com) and click on Settings…
…then Password
Enter your current password, followed by your new password twice, then click Change
Once you have seen confirmation that your password has been changed, go back and re-open TweetDeck.
You will be faced with the login screen. Now enter your Twitter username and NEW password, then click Login.
You should now be back into your normal TweetDeck screen with a status of “All Good”.
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What TweetDeck questions do you have that I could answer here? Let me know in the comments or get in touch via Twitter @richardbarley
Yes, you read that right. TweetDeck does now include the Digg.com URL shortener!
If you have the Twitter box ticked, your tweet will be sent to Twitter exactly as normal.
You will then be prompted to either create a new 12seconds account, or enter your username (“12ername”) and password.
Once the clock reaches zero, you will be given the option to
A tweet will automatically be send containing the text you entered and a link to view the video on the 12seconds.tv website.
You can then either click the name you want from the list, or scroll down the list with the arrow keys and press [Enter].
Obviously the translation is only as accurate as Google,which can sometimes give very odd results, but it should be enough to allow you to open up the communication channels with your foreign friends.
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