Twitter Announces Good News For People Who Swear By Tweetdeck
Twitter announced the addition of custom timelines to Tweetdeck on Tuesday. The feature is rolling out over the next few days, but here’s a quick look at how to curate your own timelines if you don’t have it yet.
By Sadho Ram — 13 Nov 2013, 05:41 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
Twitter is rolling out custom timelines over the next several days to TweetDeck for web, Chrome and PC, and will be coming soon to the Mac app. Here's how it will look
Access custom timelines for any user from their profile in TweetDeck. Add a column for any custom timeline to follow it live.
Image via twimg.comTwitter will let you create custom timelines based on topics, hashtags and more from Tweetdeck
Twitter unveiled the ability to make custom timelines Tuesday — a move that puts the newly-public company squarely in Storify's territory. Users can create their own timelines around particular events, filled with tweets from particular users and topics.
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This will allow people to create powerful streams of information out of Twitter’s public firehose, effectively allowing anyone to curate individual streams of data tailored to a topic.
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"Whether you want to collect the best Tweets about a TV show or help people find the latest information about fast-moving real-time situations, custom timelines let you give everyone a place to follow along," wrote Brian Ellin, product manager for the Twitter platform.
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In order to create custom timeline, here's what you will need
You'll need Tweetdeck, the Twitter client that the company bought two years ago, in order to make the custom timelines. Developers can also make one by hand using the Twitter API.
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Tweetdeck users will be familiar with the concept, since the service has long allowed its users to create custom columns of content. What has changed is that those columns are now, in effect, portable. The custom timelines will be fully embeddable, just as Storify's are.
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The ability to create custom timelines in Tweetdeck is rolling out slowly, so not everyone will have it right away. This is apparently in an effort to educate people about the new capabilities of custom timelines and to see how people are using them.
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Every timeline will have its own permalink page that you can refer users to on Twitter.com. That makes it easy to share and shuffle them around and refer people to them. They’re also completely embeddable.
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How to build your custom timeline? Here's how it works:
You have to use Twitter’s web-and-downloadable software, TweetDeck, to create custom timelines and add tweets to them.
Tweetdeck will show you a popup alert once custom timelines have been enabled for your account. The Web, Chrome and PC versions are getting the feature first, followed by the Mac app down the road.
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To get started, add a column and choose the new “Custom timeline” option. You can name the timeline up at the top and add a 160-character description.
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Tweets now have a perpendicular arrow icon in the bottom right corner that you can click to drag them to your custom timeline column
Regardless of which "Custom Timeline" button you select, you'll be brought to a screen where you can choose to edit existing custom timelines, or create a new custom timeline by clicking on the "Create Custom Timeline" button in the upper left-hand corner; click that button.
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The new, blank timeline should appear in your TweetDeck as its own column. You can easily name your timeline or add a description to it at this time. Unlike a 140-character tweet, the timeline description can be up to 160 characters long.
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It's now time to populate your timeline
You can populate your timeline in a number of ways, the most simple of which is to drag a tweet from one of your other TweetDeck columns into your new custom timeline. Each tweet will have a small icon in the lower right-hand corner that looks like directional arrows crossing. You can use this to click and drag tweets into your custom timeline.
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You can also add tweets by clicking on the "more" icon on a user's tweet within TweetDeck; this releases a drop-down menu where one of the options is "Add to custom timeline."
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Once you have sufficiently filled your custom timeline, you can choose to share it with friends, or embed it into a blog or news post on another platform.
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Click on the small tab to the right of your custom timeline's title. From the ensuing drop-down menu, click on "share." You can choose to embed the post, view it on Twitter.com or tweet about it. For our purposes, we are going to embed the post. Click "Embed timeline."
This will bring up a new window where you can make small changes to the timeline, such as changing the link color or background color for the tweets. Once you've set everything up the way you want it, click "Create Widget." A few lines of code will appear below all of the tweets in your custom timeline. Copy the code, and paste it into your blog post.
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Also, you can always add to your timeline from TweetDeck
You can also look at another user's custom timelines by clicking on their Twitter card within TweetDeck, and selecting the "Custom Timelines" button below their avatar picture.
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