TweetDeck
By Twitter, Inc.
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Description
TweetDeck makes it easier for publishers, marketers and power users to track the real-time conversations they care about. It brings more flexibility and insight to power users through a customizable layout that lets you keep up with the people and topics that matter most to you. And, you can join the conversation by tweeting, sharing photos and links to news stories, and more.
What's New in Version 1.2
Security and stability fixes.
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Customer Reviews
Disappointed to see what Twitter has done with Tweetdeck
I was initially excited to learn Tweetdeck was acquired by Twitter. Despite Tweetdeck's unique interface which made it extremely useful in managing multiple accounts, and multiple lists simultaneously, it certainly had a host of quirks that were frustrating, and a list of bugs that were infuriating to see go unfixed for long periods of time.
The native Twitter client, on the other hand, is simple and elegant, with a great user interface and solid performance. It's perfect for managing a single Twitter account and reviewing a single timeline.
I wrongly assumed that the Tweetdeck acquisition would result in the mergence of Twitter's native Mac OS X client with Tweetdeck - and result in an elegant, improved, stable Tweetdeck, with all the features that made Tweetdeck great, plus an improved user interface, and none of the hiccups - perfect for power users and marketing folks like myself.
A stand-out frustrating regression in the user experience is the odd fact that scrolling horizontally is now fixed by groups of columns. For example, I have 8 columns active on Tweetdeck right now. My monitor is wide enough to display 4 columns at once. I'm viewing columns 1, 2, 3, and 4. If I want to scroll just one column over to peak at #5, I'm out of luck. I can jump to 5, 6, 7, and 8 all displayed together, or back to 1, 2, 3, and 4. But it is impossible to view, for example, 2, 3, 4, and 5 together. This is a simply bad user experience. It works against the mental paradigms users have with regard to how scrolling works, and at the same time it reduces the usefulness of the application.
Twitter, you acquired Tweetdeck in part because many of your customers loved it. Please take the time to understand why your customers loved it, and let that guide a (hopefully) complete re-write of this application.
Twitter ruined TweetDeck … fix it!
No it's not TweetDeck, not anymore.
Bad:
- Does not refresh, I have to manually click the reload … seriously?
- You cannot collapse the app down to one column, even if I close all column but home it still has "placeholders" for 3 columns and you cannot resize any smaller … seriously?
Good:
- TweetDeck is still in there somewhere… they just need to fix it and it will be good, TweetDeck was good.
Summary:
Really bad, don't use this if you have used the old TweetDeck app when it was really TweetDeck, you will hate this. Why did they just not rebrand the old software? really strange thought process here. Check again next version if they say they fixed it.
Missing major features.
No keyboard shortcuts. No way to mark updates as read. No way to clear "all" or clear "seen" updates. Update box is a popup instead of being at the top/bottom of the window. Looks pretty but is mostly fail. Stick with the AIR app for now until they get this sorted out.
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- Free
- Category: Social Networking
- Updated: Jan 09, 2012
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 1.0 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Twitter, Inc.
- © 2011 Twitter Inc.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 or later, 64-bit processor
