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Twitter has updated TweetDeck for Chrome and the web with a completely new interface. The UI has been reworked to make it easy to access all of your columns without constantly scrolling. Previous versions of TweetDeck only showed your columns, requiring you to scroll horizontally to see the columns that were off-screen. With a new sidebar to the left, users can simply click on an icon to be brought to that column. The sidebar also provides links to your settings, lists, and a compose button. Each column still retains the ability to filter tweets by content, users, and the ability to control alerts.

The redesigned TweetDeck matches the interface of Twitter for Mac, creating a unified Twitter experience across different platforms. While TweetDeck for Android, iPhone, and Adobe AIR was discontinued in May of this year, it’s nice to see that Twitter hasn’t completely abandoned its development. Android and iOS users will have to use the official Twitter application or one of many third-party alternatives out there.

[Source: TweetDeck]

Twitter purchased TweetDeck in 2011 in an effort to halt third party Twitter clients,  but by March 5th 2013 the company announced plans to cull TweetDeck’s features.On May 7th, Twitter will end support for TweetDeck on Android, iPhone, and Adobe AIR altogether. The Mac and Windows versions will continue to be supported for the time being, but their futures are uncertain. While TweetDeck will still remain a web app, this closure is a giant inconvenience to Android and iOS TweetDeck users.

One of the major advantages of TweetDeck is the ability to log into multiple accounts and display multiple feeds at once. It also has support for connecting to Facebook. There are of course no TweetDeck clones, but there are plenty of potential replacements (some even have superior features). We’ll compare and contrast various Twitter clients on different platforms against TweetDeck to help find the best one for you.

We’ll walk through some alternatives and help you choose the best one.
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The popular Twitter client, TweetDeck, will be shutting down for Android, iPhone, and Adobe AIR users on May 7th. The company updated its blog post over the weekend to clarify that the discontinued apps will be removed from their respective app stores and all previously installed apps will cease working. The company has also announced that it will be discontinuing Facebook integration across all existing version of TweetDeck.

TweetDeck was bought by Twitter back in 2011 and has largely been overshadowed by the official Twitter client on Android and iOS. TweetDeck will still live on as a web app for Google Chrome and as standalone apps for Mac and PC.

The death of TweetDeck will be missed by power users who valued its multiple account support and multiple column design. Twitter cites its work on creating a “fast and feature-rich web application for modern browsers” as the reason for shuttering TweetDeck on Android, iOS, and AIR.

For mobile users, there are many alternative Twitter clients as well as the official Twitter client for iOS and Android. Android users should check out Plume and Carbon while iPhone users should check out HootSuite and Echofon.

Will you miss TweetDeck? What Twitter app are you using?

Source: TweetDeck