TweetDeck 0.26.1 has just been released. Amongst other things it includes support for multiple accounts. I'm very happy about this as I currently have four Twitter accounts, and I'm sick of signing in and out of them all the time.

However, once you start using multiple accounts in TweetDeck, you can quickly end up with lots of columns - and there's only so much space you can use. Of course, that depends entirely on your monitor, but on a 17" laptop I can't go beyond 4 columns. Plus, I don't particularly want to use up the whole screen on TweetDeck alone. But I do want to see the replies across all four of my accounts...

If you're willing to combine a few of the columns, you can use the Search option to set up one column for all of your replies. Click the search button to get started - it's the black magnifying glass.

This will display a window where you can enter some search terms.

Now, for some reason, this version of TweetDeck displays white text in some of the text fields, and it's a bit difficult to read. The box is a bit too small for this example anyway, so I'll just explain what you need to post below.

A Twitter search can include a combination of words and phrases. For instance, if I want to see all of the replies to all of my Twitter accounts, I would enter the following into the search box:

@benbarden OR @injader OR @cmfads OR @cmfblogs

If I want to search for a few different keywords so I can keep up with any mentions of CMF Ads, I would do this:

@cmfads OR #cmfads OR cmfads OR "cmf ads"

Note the quotes around the search term that has a space in it.

Once you've entered the keywords you wish to search for, hit Enter. You'll then need to choose the account you wish to create this search under, then click the Select Account button. The search column will now be added, and you no longer need to have a "Mentions" column for each individual account. Pretty neat!

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