How To Keep Track Of The People You Follow On Twitter Using Seesmic Desktop

When you make a userlist, it will automatically cover the home column. What I did in this case, was to make three searches each one for people using the words "Tagfoot," Squidoo," or "Etsy."

I don't know everyone who appears in these searches, and not everyone I follow will use those words in their posts, but it is a quick way for me to find people I want to put on my userlist.

I could just wait and add people as they appear in my home column, but this helps me get the lists started. This will also be less people for me to add that way later.

It is also a good way for me to find new people to follow, and become friends with!

Adding people to a userlist from any column is done by placing your mouse over a person's avatar picture which will cause four buttons to become visible.

The buttons are "reply," "direct message," "retweet," and a menu button. Click on the menu button, click "Add to userlist" and then a "Select a userlist" window opens which will then ask you which userlist to add to.

By clicking "Edit list settings" button at the top of the userlist, you can see everyone in the userlist. There's also a minus symbol to the right of every entry, which is how you remove people from uerlists.

Until you click the "Detach column" button, your userlist covers the home column. Detaching the column places it to the right, where the search columns were.

I haven't figured out how many columns I can have before it's starts to affect my computer, but on my laptop running Windows Vista, I'm able to have eight columns open at once.

No problems, so far.

It takes a little bit of work to organize this, especially if you start after already following over twelve hundred people, like me. I think it's worth it, after a while it shouldn't be much work, just add new people to userlists as you follow them.

I usually have seven or eight columns open, but leave the window sized big enough to view just three at a time. The home column is always the first, then my userlists and often a search column. I can use the horizontal scroll bar to switch between userlists and search columns.

I don't even need to have them all open at once, but I usually do.