TweetDeck is a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter accounts.
Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send
and receive tweets and view profiles.
It was the most popular Twitter application with a 23% market share as of June 2009, following
only the official Twitter website with 45.7% share for posting new status updates.
It can be used as a web app, a Chrome app, or a desktop app.
User interface TweetDeck's interface consists of a series
of customisable columns, which can be set up to display your Twitter timeline, mentions,
direct messages, lists, trends, favorites, search results, hashtags, or all tweets by
or to a single user.
The client uses Twitter's own automatic and invisible URL shortening whereby a link of
any length will only use 23 characters of a Tweet's 140-character limit.
All columns can be filtered to include or exclude words or tweets from users.
Tweets can be sent immediately or scheduled for later delivery.
Users can monitor and tweet from multiple accounts simultaneously.
For added account security, users signing in with their Twitter username and password
can use Twitter's own two-step verification, known to Twitter users as Login Verification.
Product history July 4, 2008 - first version of TweetDeck,
originally an independent Twitter app by Iain Dodsworth, was released
June 19, 2009 - iPhone version released May 2010 - iPad version released
October 2010 - Android version made available after a public beta period.
May 25, 2011 - Twitter acquired TweetDeck September 15, 2011 – TweetDeck tweeted that
new updates for all of its versions would be released and that "As part of the process
of making TweetDeck more consistent with Twitter.com & Twitter's mobile apps, we're removing deck.ly
from our apps."
Many users expressed their anger at this feature removal in the comments on the iOS and Android
Market.
Deck.ly previously allowed users to post tweets in excess of 140 characters.
December 8, 2011 - Twitter released a new version branded "TweetDeck by Twitter", as
part of Twitter's redesign of its services.
TweetDeck changed from an Adobe AIR application to a native Windows and Mac OS X application
in this release, and also introduced a web version of TweetDeck for WebKit-based browsers
based on TweetDeck's existing Google Chrome app.
The update dropped support for LinkedIn, Google Buzz, Foursquare, MySpace accounts.
March 4, 2013 - TweetDeck announced in a blog post that they would be suspending mobile
versions of TweetDeck including TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for iPhone and TweetDeck for
Android, which will be removed from their respective app stores this May.
TweetDeck said they would "focus our development efforts on our modern, web-based versions".
May 2, 2013 - users were informed that 'Facebook is no longer supported in TweetDeck', and
that on May 7, Facebook accounts and Facebook columns will be removed.
July 25, 2013 - at 12:00 PM EDT US, Twitter turned off API v1 which effectively shut down
the Android, iOS, and AIR versions of TweetDeck.
December 11, 2013 - Twitter started allowing new TweetDeck users to sign in with their
Twitter usernames and passwords, removing the barrier-to-entry which had previously
existed in requiring users to register a separate TweetDeck account.
In a blog post, Twitter said "When single sign in is fully available to all current
users, we’ll also make it possible to seamlessly integrate your current TweetDeck settings
and preferences" Integration with other social networking services
Originally, as it is now, TweetDeck was aimed towards the Twitter social networking service.
Over the years, TweetDeck introduced support for other social networks, but has since removed
that support.
On March 16, 2009, a pre-release version was released featuring Facebook status updates
integration.
As of April 8, 2009, Facebook status updates were part of the standard program.
From version 0.30 TweetDeck also supported MySpace integration.
Version 0.32, released on November 30, 2009, added LinkedIn integration and new Twitter
features.
In May 2010 TweetDeck also added integration with the Google Buzz and Foursquare social
networks.
In 2012 TweetDeck reverted to only supporting Twitter and Facebook, ending support for LinkedIn,
MySpace, and the now defunct Google Buzz effective June 2012.
In May 2013, TweetDeck removed support for Facebook accounts, becoming focused once again
on the core Twitter experience.
Variants All unofficial variants of TweetDeck stopped
working in early May 2013 because of more restrictive API version 1.1.
TweetDeck Ltd A year after launching TweetDeck in 2008,
Iain Dodsworth received his initial $300,000 seed funding from The Accelerator Group, Howard
Lindzon, Taavet Hinrikus, Gerry Campbell, Roger Ehrenberg, betaworks, Brian Pokorny,
and Bill Tai.
The company raised a Series A round of funding with many of these same investors, and Ron
Conway, Danny Rimer, and the SV Angel group.
On May 25, 2011, TweetDeck was bought by Twitter for £25 million, after a bidding war with
Bill Gross's UberMedia.
On January 22, 2013, The American directors of Twitter were sent a letter by Companies
House warning them that their UK subsidiary company TweetDeck Ltd. was at risk of closure,
over missed accounting deadlines.
This had no bearing on the product or service which was by then run by Twitter, not by TweetDeck
Ltd.
The letter stated: "The Registrar of Companies gives notice that, unless cause is shown to
the contrary, at the expiration of 3 months from the above date the name of TweetDeck
Ltd will be struck off the register and the company will be dissolved."
On May 7, 2013, TweetDeck Ltd, was officially struck off the business register by Companies
House, and dissolved, for failure to file accounts for 2011.
References
External links Official website
TweetDeck on Twitter