Just the other day I was reading through my tweets using TwitterBerry, and there were quite a few that linked to interesting articles that I wanted to read at a later date.  (I’ve also had this problem when scanning Tweets on my laptop using TweetDeck - I would be multitasking, and want to flag tweets/articles to read after the conference call or after the work day.) 

Finally, I had time to research the situation, and, lo and behold, Twitter does have a “flagging” tool called “Favorites“.  I thought this was surely a new feature that was perhaps rolled out with the recent new “Search” tool; but, actually, Favorites has been out for some time (maybe since Twitter’s origin).   It’s a great tool designed to do exactly what I wanted – flag (or bookmark) tweets to read at a later date.  And, it’s available through TwitterBerry and TweetDeck, as well as on the Twitter.com. 

Here is where the Favorites tool is located on each application I mentioned above:

1. Twitter.com – mouse over the right side of the tweet and click on the star icon. 
2. TwitterBerry – before opening the tweet, click the menu button on your blackberry.  Scroll down the list with the trackball and select “Favorite”
3. TweetDeck – mouse over the avatar, and click on the “Other Actions” button.  Next mouse over the “Tweet” menu and select “Favorites”.

Maybe most of you have been using this tool for while, but for those of you who are like me and not that observant – hope this helps you organize your tweets and read all those articles you were missing before.

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