To many tweets!

Twitter has really taken off in that pass 6 months. People are signing up like crazy and new tools are popping up like crazy. People are following thousands of others and are trying to find the best way to manage all those tweets. TweetDeck has become one of the leaders as a desktop tool to view all the tweets you are following. The abbility to split the tweets up in to different groups / columns makes it far easier to organize the tweets you really want to read.

There still seems to be some things that slow down your tweet reading. One of those is seeing the same tweet over and over. If you are following alot of people that are interested in the same thing chances are that they are following eachother too. So as soon as each of the see that great link that tweetmasterX sent they all will re-tweet that. Now you have the exact same information 8 times.

What I would like to see is TweetDesk Collapse all the re-tweets of the exact same text together. I don’t need that information 8 times. If the person re-tweeting added a comment or some other text show it to me but otherwise I have seen it already and moved on. Its almost like the days when everyone would forward every funny e-mail to their whole address book, you would end up with 32 e-mails with the same picture of the cat and the dog sleeping in the same basket. We don’t need to go back to those days!!

– Update
TwiTip just wrote an article regarding Retweeting and using “Via” instead,There’s a Better Way to ReTweet!.This addresses some of the problem of clutter in reading Retweets by moving some of the un-necessary information to the end but it doesn’t solve the problem of getting the same infromation multiple times.

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