![]() It even looks like the old Tweetdeck! It uses the Chromium rendering engine (Webkit on Mac) to display tweets. I was about to give up hope when Matthew Norwood ( mentioned that he’d been using a new client. I wanted a new client but I wanted it to be like the old Tweetdeck. Plus, I knew that I would eventually be forced to upgrade if Twitter released a killer new feature. I’d rather have an old client that works than a newer broken client.Īs the weeks passed, I realized that Tweetdeck Air was having a few issues. All in all, it took me about a day to delete the 1.0 app from my computer and go back to the version 0.38 Air app. The interface defaulted to using “real” names instead of Twitter handles. Pieces of critical information, like date and time of tweets was gone. That was probably the only good thing about it. Gone was the dependency on Adobe Air, instead using HTML5. About six months later, Twitter released Tweetdeck 1.0, and increase from Tweetdeck’s last version of 0.38.2. Twitter took their time consolidating the development team and updating Tweetdeck as they saw fit. I liked the interface in the iPhone and hoped that Twitter would pour some development into Tweetdeck and turn it into the official cross-platform client for power users. The last time this happened, Twitter turned the Tweetie client for iPhone and Mac into the official client for those platforms. Last May, Twitter purchased Tweetdeck for about $40 million. It was the first application I launched in the morning and the last I closed at night. It was the only reason I installed Adobe Air on my desktop and laptop. So it was that I became a regular user of Tweetdeck. This last feature was the most attractive to me when attending Tech Field Day events, as I tend to monitor the event hashtag closely for questions and comments. Also very useful to me was the multiple column layout, which allowed me to keep track of my timeline, mentions, and hashtag searches. The ability to manage lists and segregate users into classifications was very useful for those that follow a very eclectic group of Twitterers. ![]() For a long while, the de facto client for Windows was Tweetdeck. Once I became a regular Twitter user, I abandoned the web interface and instead started using a client.
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