Monday, April 5, 2010

I've Had It With TweetDeck

If you don't use Twitter or don't know what TweetDeck is, you are probably not interested in this post... still, just to give you some idea, TweetDeck is one of the most popular Twitter clients. The reason I am giving up on TweetDeck is that it has just too many problems!

The most frequent and infuriating one is that TweetDeck will intermittently fail to update its content. This happens so often every day that one is more likely to see a failure message on the bottom right corner than not. What's the point of a Twitter client that can't show you the latest tweets?

Unlike HootSuite, TweetDeck does not have a column to show you your own tweets. This means if you want to take a look at what you've tweeted, you either see it on Twitter's own website at http://twitter.com/<your-twitter-account-name>, or you create a search column in TweetDeck ("from:<your-twitter-account-name>"), neither of which speaks very well of TweetDeck.

The only advantage I can see with TweetDeck—amongst the Twitter clients that I have used, and given my usage pattern—is that it auto-shortens long links inline using my bit.ly account (TwitterBar does that just as well). While convenient, it is no longer enough of a reason to continue using TweetDeck—its all-too-frequent failures are too irritating to put up with anymore.

So that's it—I am uninstalling TweetDeck for good as soon as I am finished editing this post...

If you have any suggestions for an alternative Twitter client, let me know in the comments.

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