14 DAY TRIAL // Several TweetDeck apps will stop working come May 7, the company announced, as well as the Facebook integration. The list includes Adobe AIR and mobile versions.
The news isn’t exactly surprising, since the company announced back in March that it was going to pull the plug for its apps for iPhone, Android and AIR in order to focus on the browser-based versions of the service. The apps are also to be removed from their respective App stores at the beginning of May.
As announced, the Facebook integration will also stop working on that day. This tool enables users to update Facebook and stay up to date with Facebook friends straight from TweetDeck.
While there were no additional details regarding this change, it isn’t necessarily a shock to any of its users, especially since the service has been owned by Twitter since 2011.
“Over the past 18 months, we’ve been focused on building a fast and feature-rich web application for modern browsers, and a Chrome app, which offers some unique features like notifications.
“We’ve recently introduced many enhancements to these apps –– a new look and feel, tools like search term autocomplete and search filters to help you find what you’re looking for more quickly, and automatically-updating Tweet streams so you immediately see the most recent Tweets. Our weekly web releases have been possible because we’ve nearly doubled the size of the TweetDeck team over the past six months,” the blog post said.
TweetDeck was originally launched in 2008 and evolved gradually over the next few years. In May 2011, the service was bought by Twitter for $40 million.
The first change brought by the new acquisition was removing deck.ly from the list of apps, which angered many users who didn’t refrain from expressing their complaint. The feature allowed users to post tweets of over 140 characters, the limit set by Twitter.