Make use of Twitter favorites to read about your favorite tweets later.

I’m sure Twitter is a lot more useful tool to find useful information. But if you make use of Twitter on your iPhone then its usability gets constrained by the fact that you can only read (comfortably) to a certain level using your iPhone, given the form factor of your iPhone.

So, how do you efficiently make use of your iPhone to utilize the flow of information on Twitter, particularly when you don’t have much time during the day to get to the details of all those tweets? Simple, favorite your favorite tweets and then read those tweets at a later time on your PC or Mac where you can read pretty comfortably.

I’m going to walk you through a simple example of how I use TweetDeck (my favorite Twitter app for iPhone, I’m sure you have your own favorite) to bookmark my favorite tweets.

Don’t kill me for this simple tip but I just want to get the point out there on how you can use these simple tips to make efficient use of your iPhone device when it comes to being on Twitter and to keep up with the never ending stream of tweets.

Launch TweetDeck on your iPhone and open up the tweet that you think you don’t have the time to read now but rather would prefer to read it at later some time.

Tap on the little “+favorite” button on the bottom right side of the TweetDeck page.

Wait for it to update your Twitter account.

Once done you’ll see a “-favorite” button and that tells you that this tweet has been favorited.

Now when you get back to you computer you can either use the same TweetDeck client (or any other Twitter client that you run on your computer, for that matter) or your can simply login to your Twitter account using your favorite web browser (Apple Safari is my favorite) and can delve deeper into the tweet.

Over a period of time your favorite tweets list will grow and will make it miserable to find the correct one. What I do is I click on the link on the tweet and then once I bookmark it (aka, delicious) I normally get back to that favorite tweet and remove it from my favorite list.

That’s how I use my iPhone device to quickly skim through Twitter as and when I get some time and then read it to the detail later. I’m sure you’ll have your own way of making use of your iPhone device to deal with the Twitter overload. I would love to hear those. Please share those in comments.

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