Life-changing program #2: TweetDeck
TweetDeck is one of the most popular Twitter clients. Why? Because in addition to an array of helpful receiving and sending features, it has one outstanding property for listening: it lets you group your incoming messages.
That means that if you follow 300 people, or 3,000, but you really only have time to keep up with 30 of them, TweetDeck can show you a column of messages from just your inner circle. You can also group messages by keyword or hashtag. Plus, it has a built-in way to see TwitScoop trends.
TweetDeck (http://tweetdeck.com) is a desktop program, and before you install it, you need to run Adobe Air (http://www.adobe.com/products/air). That sounds intimidating, but each takes just a few minutes to download and run. Be aware that desktop web applications tend to suck up system resources over time because they don't do what programmers call "automatic garbage collection." Be sure to close and restart them every day or so.
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