

Image Credits: TweetDeck’s shutdown message to users Years went by without significant development - despite having a small, but fairly passionate user base who had even said they would be willing to pay for a premium version of the app.

It outbid UberMedia in order to win the deal, bringing the app in-house.īut its inattention to the product was clear. Twitter saw this as a competitive threat and largely bought TweetDeck just to keep it out of UberMedia’s hands, not because it was devoted to the product. It bought the service at a time when rival UberMedia was snatching up social media market share by buying up apps like Echofon, UberTwitter and Mixx. You can still use TweetDeck on web and more invites to try the Preview will be rolling out over the next few months!Īcquired by Twitter in 2011 for just $40 million, Twitter never really developed TweetDeck to its full potential. July 1 is the last day it'll be available. To toggle back to the window, either double-click on the tray icon or use its right-click menu.We're saying goodbye to TweetDeck for the Mac app to focus on making TweetDeck even better and testing our new Preview. When not in use, it sits quietly in your system tray while minimized.

However, you can also do it manually by pressing both Ctrl and R keys. The program automatically refreshes your timeline. Note, however, that this is not applicable for copying text contents. By utilizing theTwitter's URL shortening service, you can also copy a link to the media. When you right-clicked an image, it will show you options to copy the photo to the clipboard. With this added function, you no longer need to access your web browser to view a picture or play a video. One noteworthy feature is the ability to open media content directly. However, in addition to the TweetDeck-inspired features, you can also find extra menus in this program. For instance, when you clicked the three-dot button in the tweet, you can see the same set of options that the original app has. With this, users can expect that the navigation experience that both tools serve is similar.

Atomic TweetDeck provides almost the same user interface as TweetDeck.
