Intro to Custom Timelines in Twitter (+Tweetdeck)

In this article, we’ll explain and introduce you to Twitter’s custom timeline functionality. Custom timelines are a way for you to organize your twitter timeline into specific themes or topics that you choose instead of having a general timeline with everything. It’s a great way to focus a specific topic while sharing and growing an idea or subject.

In order to create and work with custom timelines you will need to use Twitter’s Tweetdeck:

Steps to add a new timeline

a. Login to Tweetdeck

Go to tweetdeck.com and login

tweetdeck

b. Add new timeline

Go to the left hand navigation, click on the “+” sign and click on “custom timeline” and “Create new” or edit existing.

custom-timeline

Name your custom timeline in box and add description

name-timeline

How to add tweets to timeline

option a – hover over desired tweet over arrow icon and drag to custom timeline.

option b – hover over desired tweet, click on “more” button and “add to custom timeline”, then checkbox the desired custom timeline name.

add-to-timeline

How to share custom timeline

In order to share custom timeline, click on share button. You can do the following:

a. Embed on website

Customize widget and copy and paste code into your website or blog

embed-timeline

b. See on twitter.com and copy url

view-timeline-twitter

* also can get embed code from twitter page

c. Tweet about timeline

tweet-about-timeline

That’s it. Let us know if you have any questions. We’ll be happy to help!