"We are saying goodbye to TweetDeck for the Mac app to focus on making TweetDeck even better and testing our new Preview," a tweet from the TweetDeck team reads. When launching the TweetDeck for the Mac app, Twitter has started placing a blue banner at the top warning users that it will only be available for one more month, reports 9To5Google. For TweetDeck’s users, it’s just more of the same: Another change that doesn’t serve anyone.Microblogging site Twitter's social media dashboard application for management, TweetDeck, will no longer be available as a standalone Mac app from July 1. ![]() Twitter has a clear pattern of paring down its TweetDeck offerings in order to make room for what it says will be improvements or new features to TweetDeck itself. It was only a matter of time before the Mac app would face the same fate. Twitter already had its eye on removing TweetDeck’s stand-alone desktop apps as early as six years ago. Even with these shutdowns in 2013, Twitter had already expressed a desire to focus on “web-based versions of TweetDeck.”Īnd then in 2016 came the biggest predictor of TweetDeck for Mac’s demise: Twitter ended support for TweetDeck for Windows. In 2011, Twitter acquired TweetDeck, and this kind of signaled the beginning of the path it seems to be on now, a path of slow deterioration.īy 2013, Twitter had shuttered two mobile app versions of TweetDeck and a desktop AIR version, and ended support for integration with Facebook. TweetDeck first came on the scene in 2008 as a popular, third-party Twitter management dashboard app and then released iPhone, iPad, and Android versions soon after. Stay tuned - we’ll be sharing updates along the way!īut the recent loss of TweetDeck for Mac isn’t entirely surprising, especially if you’ve been paying attention to the social media management app’s evolution over the years. We’ve decided to wind down the app so we can continue focusing on improving and bringing new features to TweetDeck. The consensus was clear: No one wants or cares about a web app version of TweetDeck, even with the promise of “new features.” Nearly every response complained about the web app or mourned the loss of a stand-alone desktop app. Twitter begins rollout of new gray check marks only to abruptly remove themīut the tweeted announcement fell flat and then was immediately dragged in the replies. ![]() Twitter’s SMS two-factor authentication is having issues.
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