Tweetdeck

TweetDeck for iPhone to exit App Store, stop functioning on May 7

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 19, 2013 a 8:36 pm

If you're a TweetDeck for iPhone fan, Twitter's most recent update, posted just today, has some dire news for you:

TweetDeck for iOS and AIR for Mac to be discontinued in early May of this year

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 a 11:48 am

TweetDeck, who was acquired by Twitter a while back will be discontinuing a lot of its product lines including support for iOS, Mac, and Android. If you use TweetDeck on the web, those tools will still remain and is where they'll choose to focus their energies and development going forward.

Tweetdeck for Mac brings 90+ fixes and updates

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 a 1:57 pm

Twitter has released Tweetdeck for Mac 2.3.1 which brings "90+ fixes and updates" to the popular Mac Twitter client. Some of these changes include a performance upgrade for displaying multiple high-velocity columns, the ability to embed a tweet from the tweet itself (great for bloggers), a new search box with Typeahead and People Search, and the ability to reduce the app window to 2 columns.

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Top 10 best alternative Twitter apps for iPhone and iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Dec 9, 2011 a 2:29 am

Breaking down the best, most must-have alternatives to the official Twitter for iPhone and iPad app

The official Twitter 4.0 for iPhone has a radically overhauled user interface which, while it might potentially make tweeting more discoverable and approachable to new, mainstream users, could also annoy and alienate long time, power users. Luckily, if you're one of he annoyed, the alienated, there are a variety of alternative Twitter apps in the App Store for you to choose from. These are some of our favorites, the ones we consider the very best, most must-have third party Twitter clients for iPhone and iPad.

Twitter buys Tweetdeck, what does this mean for iPhone apps?

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, May 2, 2011 a 11:32 pm

No sooner does Tweetdeck's new, improved iPhone app hit the App Store than Twitter announces they've bought it, and right out from under UberMedia to boot.

Updated: Twitter suspends UberMedia clients for privacy, monetization, and trademark violations

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Feb 18, 2011 a 4:30 pm

Twitter recently suspended all Twitter clients supported by Ubermedia. Among the clients suspended are Twidroid and UberTwitter, which are both insanely popular on Android OS and Blackberry OS. They also operate and support the popular TweetDeck client which is available on iOS and several other platforms. They've also acquired Echofon, another popular Twitter client for iOS.

According to Twitter, they've been working with UberMedia since April of 2010 when they were operating under the name TweetUp, which also apparently violated some copyright issues. Currently Twitter is claiming that Ubermedia has changed the content of tweets in order to generate revenue for themselves. They've also pulled the clients due to privacy issues concerning direct messages over 140 characters.

When asked about the suspension, Twitter spokeswoman Carolyn Penner had this to say:

We ask all developers in Twitter ecosystem to abide by a simple set of rules that are in the interests of our users, as well as the health and vitality of the platform as a whole.

We often take actions to enforce these rules; in fact, on an average day we turn off more than one hundred services that violate our API rules of the road. This keeps the ecosystem fair for everyone.

Some of the allegations being held against UberMedia are pretty serious. For the full letter Ubermedia received, hit the break!

TweetDeck to Steve Jobs: Android wasn't a nightmare

By Staff, Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010 a 1:26 pm

Iain Dodsworth, CEO of TweetDeck, follows Andy Rubin with Twitter comments refuting what Steve Jobs had to say during Apple's Q4 2010 earnings call:

Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android? Err nope, no we didn't. It wasn't.

This in response to Jobs' statement that TweetDeck (he called it TwitterDeck) recently launched their Android app, and the "daunting challenge" of having to contend with 100 different versions of software on 244 different handsets.

iPhone at Work: Certified Golf Course Superintendent

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010 a 4:47 pm

iPhone Twitter app roundup

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, May 20, 2010 a 7:36 am

So you have an iPhone and you use Twitter, but with the plethora of Twitter applications available in the App Store (including one that just went official), which do you chose? TiPb is here to help with a Twitter app roundup! Now this is not your typical top 5 or top 10 must-have, best Twitter app list. This is about options and alternatives, and Ally, Leanna, and guest writer Alli Flowers have chosen the following 12 to review and help narrow your search:

Twitter for iPhone
Twitbit
Tweeterena
Osfoora
HootSuite
SimplyTweet 3
Tweetdeck
Twitterrific
Twitbird Pro
Twittelator Pro
Echofon
Fluttr

To see what we had to say, follow us after the break!

Quick Review: TweetDeck on iPad

By Dieter Bohn, Sunday, Apr 4, 2010 a 3:11 pm

TweetDeck on the iPad is a mixed bag - most of the contents of that bag are utterly awesome for the power-twitter user. If you need to follow a lot of Twitter streams then there's simply no better way to track them all than TweetDeck. If you use TweetDeck on the desktop, you can set up a TweetDeck account and have your chosen columns synchronized between your desktop and iPad. If you have multiple Twitter accounts, you can send from multiple accounts too.

The not-so-awesome part of the bag comes when you want to view a link from a tweet. In landscape mode you simply can't. In portrait mode what happens is the tweet appears in a at the top of the screen. You can also view profiles, recent tweets, and more. For displaying a single tweet, that area is simply giant. For displaying a web page linked from a tweet, it's maddeningly small.

I said in the video that TweetDeck might my favorite iPad Twitter client, but I'm finding more and more that the portrait mode isn't quite working out for me.

Video and gallery after the break!