Twitter kills TweetDeck for Windows, automates log-ins for TweetDeck users

http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/17/twitter-kills-tweetdeck-for-windows-automates-logins-for-tweetdeck-users/

by protomyth • 10 years ago

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Mithaldu4• 10 years ago

The company said it made the decision to abandon development on Windows so it could “better focus on enhancing your TweetDeck experience,”

Haha, what a bald-faced lie.

They absolutely murdered tweetdeck by buying it a few years ago and releasing a "remade" version with 90% of the features removed. Officially abandoning the desktop client just means they've finally finished what they began and taken the old guy behind the shed.

mchahn• 10 years ago

Officially abandoning the desktop client just means they've finally finished what they began and taken the old guy behind the shed.

Do you think they are really abandoning it for all platforms? I was thinking how different the world was that the Mac is given more attention than Windows now. I remember many years when the opposite was true.

smitherfield• 10 years ago

Probably because they can share most of the codebase between Mac and iOS.

kyriakos• 10 years ago

It's just a chromium packaged website really. Hardly any extra development required

Aleman3602• 10 years ago

They just released a UWP client for Windows 10.

Mithaldu4• 10 years ago

If you're talking about Tweeten, which is just a mini web browser showing a specialized part of their website, then you fell right for their marketing schemes.

ascagnel_• 10 years ago

TweetDeck was (is?) built on Adobe Air, which had the unique position of delivering the awful Flash experience on every OS without anything resembling a native widget set.

Mithaldu4• 10 years ago

The old tweetdeck desktop client was built on Air, but regardless of that it delivered features. The new tweetdeck by twitter was native windows and had no features.

whatnotests• 10 years ago

TweetDeck is useless. I honestly wonder what social media managers with, say, a dozen or more social media accounts (not just Twitter) actually use.

My clueless googling revealed nothing.

jacquesm2• 10 years ago

TweetDeck is useless.

It is now, but it wasn't always so. At some point it was simply the 'better twitter ui'.

alblue• 10 years ago

And that's why they had to kill it. Instead of investing the time and effort to make the real UI better, their plan was simply to make other clients worse until everyone was forced back onto one giant web platform that they can monetise with adverts.

mattzito• 10 years ago

Hootsuite or Sproutsocial

BinaryIdiot• 10 years ago

I honestly wonder what social media managers with, say, a dozen or more social media accounts (not just Twitter) actually use.

I've wondered this as well and I've come to the horrible conclusion that many do it manually. Which is a real shame. Listening to people who do a TON of social media stuff (like Gary Vee) all seem to say they just log in and out of accounts constantly.

LastPass probably makes this easier but that's still gotta be a pain.

Edit: I had no idea about Hootsuite, etc. Hmm. Maybe the doing it manually that I heard about was limited to SnapChat?

Laforet• 10 years ago

Multiple users in Chrome seems to be a viable workaround. But I really miss the old Tweetdeck before the buyout even if it means I had to install Adobe Air...

prawn• 10 years ago

Many use HootSuite.

jacquesm2• 10 years ago

I don't think there has been a week since the beginning of the year when Twitter did not make some kind of move that was either hostile to users or developers. I really can't follow their strategy any more.

wslh• 10 years ago

I don't see any strategy, I see fear. I feel sorry for the developers relationship guy who tried to defend Twitter in HN yesterday and was lost in action immediately. I haven't seen anything like that for a company like Twitter. They don't know how to play the game of the big leagues.

I think it will be better to them to close their API and show their real face instead of being ambiguous.

x5n12• 10 years ago

Twitter has been always horrible for developers. Makes no sense. If I were doing a service like Twitter I would make firehose available to everyone. It's more important to dominate than control.

grrowl• 10 years ago

How about that week where they said they were sorry and things were gonna be different from here on out?

bachmeier• 10 years ago

TweetDeck is honestly the only way I've found to make Twitter usable. Twitter the idea is great. Twitter the company is so bad that its existence makes me question how capitalism has survived as long as it has.

eli• 10 years ago

Twitter ads work pretty well

bradgessler2• 10 years ago

Check out http://tapbots.com/tweetbot/, but don't tell Twitter about them so they don't get acquired and shut down.

joshontheweb• 10 years ago

I really wanted to like tweetbot but it beachballs allllll the time. It's a shame because twitter really screwed up their new version of twitter for mac. I'm left without a usable twitter client atm :/

JanneVee• 10 years ago

Twitter the company is so bad that its existence makes me question how capitalism has survived as long as it has.

It is not capitalism that is the problem in this case. There is a fair amount of inertia involved but sooner or later it will correct itself. Looking at the stock price it is happening.

Now there are other things in capitalism that could be considered problems but twitters survival isn't one of them.

Edit: First time I'm hit with downvotes here on HN without arguments why I'm wrong. Fascinating...

jackfoxy• 10 years ago

Now seriously considering abandoning Twitter, which is a real shame. It's the primary communications channel for the world-wide F# community. I guess I have until April 15 to decide. And just after I'd finally cleaned-up my timeline feed by judicious use of mute.

colemickens• 10 years ago

And replies are still broken. When you reply to a tweet in TweetDeck, it prepends the new tweet with your handle. Which makes absolutely no sense. Users have been reporting it for over a month and they just don't care to do anything about it.

partiallypro2• 10 years ago

IF they started rolling out TweetDeck features to the official Twitter app on Windows 10, I would find this excusable...but given @Jack's mishandling of virtually ever aspect of Twitter since his return...I have a feeling this is an on going symptom of a much broader problem Twitter has. I think Twitter is a very useful tool, but seriously someone like Microsoft or Google need to buy it and kick out all of the top management to the curb. I have rarely, if ever, seen a major company being so poorly ran in such a public fashion.

nier• 10 years ago

What about Apple? Wouldn’t Twitter be a perfect replacement for Apple Music’s Connect feature?

partiallypro2• 10 years ago

I just don't view Apple as an information company like I do Google and Microsoft. Don't feel it mixes all that well with their other verticals. Twitter is a perfect search engine companion.

incepted• 10 years ago

Just when you think "Ok, Twitter has gone pretty low but I'm pretty sure they can't anger their users any more"... they do.

lotsoflumens• 10 years ago

I found TweetDeck a few years ago and I gave it a permanent place in the top left corner of my desktop on my browsing machine immediately.

It solved all the problems I was having with the web app - huge memory usage mainly.

If there's no alternative on Windows, then I guess I'm going to get a lot more work done.

joseacta• 10 years ago

They just updated their UWP app for Windows 10 this week and added a bunch of features. It makes no sense to support two different apps on the same platform.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/twitter/9wzdncrfj...

Good to see they're focusing efforts on Windows 10.

Twitter kills TweetDeck for Windows, automates log-ins for TweetDeck users

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