Now that I’ve entered into the Tweeting world – I’ve started using a downloaded application to manage my Twitter and Facebook accounts.  This application is TweetDeck.  Using this makes it easy to update my Twitter and/or Facebook status from one application and also view all my Tweets and Facebook status updates.  It checks every few minutes for updates and notifies you of an update via an onscreen message and a small sound.  You can define custom groups of your twitter follows to better organize your updates.  It has built in integration to shorten URL, using TwitPics, and more.  The application is still in Beta but works very well, and is being actively developed with new features being added and existing ones being fixed.  In fact a new version is due out this week or next week with even better Facebook integration.  You can also use Twitter searches directly and have them stay updated as new tweets come in that match the search.

So if you are looking for an application to help you manage your Twitter and Facebook updates – check out TweetDeck!