TweetDeck Beta

Let the fun begin - Tweetdeck with LinkedIn and more

Thanks! Love how easy you made the list functions. Cheers!

Awesome. Just brilliant.

This is a great release - 0.32 really? Dont you think this is 0.4 or higher?

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks so much for this, its a great upgrade.

Now if only I could use Identi.ca from TweerDeck it would be PERFECT :-D

Great work guys!

Hopefully this will fix a group showing on my iPhone but not on the PC client, would love to export as a list..

This is a nice birthday present for me today -- thanks for releasing this update!

SCHWEET!

I don't have a clue what I'm doing

Very nice update! Looking forward to exploring these features further.

Schweeet stuff. Great new features. Should be called "SocialDeck"

Thanks for the feedback everyone, we've all been so excited to get this update out to you. Hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

I remember asking for Laconica support a long time ago. It's StatusNet today but the request is still valid :)

Absolutely awesome! I love old style retweets and hope they dont ever force us to move to the terrible new style RTs.
Can we get user tagging

Thank you so much Richard for giving me and the rest of the TweetDeck Champions the opportunity to be a part of this and get our hands dirty before everyone else.

It's been a wonderful experience which culminated with the launch of a great piece of software. Hope to be part of the next release as well!

All the best,
Andrew C.

That is some awesome list support right there. Love the ability to copy a friend's list.

Thanks for such a great release guys. Ade Bradshaw is right - this really deserves a 0.4 tag.

He's also right to ask for Identi.ca (Laconica/status.net) support. That would be all kinds of awesome. Please? Pretty please?

The RT functionality is very nice. I’ve been using the Google Gears script that showed the double avatar images on the Twitter homepage. It works just like that.

The option to use either RT version is very nice and works as expected.

A major problem with the list functionality for me is similar to the New Followers column.

When you mark tweets as read in a column, then clear them out (scissor icon in a column), they should stay gone. They don’t. So every time you clear a column, it just repopulates at the next update interval.

With Tweetdeck groups columns, once you clear them, they go away. They don’t just come back 2-3 minutes later on updating. They do this with the List columns. It pretty much makes them useless.

Unless I am doing something wrong, I’m keeping my old group columns up instead of using the lists. They just aren’t usable to me yet. It is annoying to clear the new followers column, but at least that is just one column. No way I can have 5+ lists repopulating constantly.

Of course the ones I'm testing so far are not showing all the tweets they should be, either. Same reason I don't use the Mentions column, and run a search column instead. Too many missed tweets in those Twitter-based columns.

Thanks for the epic upgrades to @tweetdeck! Feel free to start charging for the app- it's worth it. =)

Thanks Allan. TweetDeck will always be free, but its awesome that you think its worth paying for!

With the vast amount of information Tweetdeck is now able to handle, I think a serious consideration of tabbed columns/panel should be given to the next release. It would allow for more screen real estate to be utilized while also allowing users to get more from the application than ever before.

This is simply the best TweetDeck has ever been! Across the deck, this is an excellent release. Thanks for all the hard work!

Great new version, thanks!

The new version is great, except for some reason it won't let me add an "all friends" collumn. It's the only one that won't work. Can you please help with that? It's annoying the crap out of me. Other than that I have nothing to complain about; everything else runs smoothly.

Mmm, maybe I will give it a try....

I hate to be negative, and I *do* enjoy (very much!) Tweetdeck for iPhone, but I am *never* repeat *never* installing Adobe AIR on my machine after that last time it tried to take over everything. Again.

I know it's fun to be cross-platform, but please consider building a Mac-native, non-AIR version of Tweetdeck. Adobe's shitty codebase should not be rewarded.

Sweet! We're gonna try it again :) I had been away from tweeetdeck for few days :)

Great(!) job. Amazing release. You really deserve all the good comments

Brilliant all! I too would welcome a non-AIR version, Windows only, but I you are now officially way ahead of the pack. I will doing a blog post at http://www.ericgreenspan.com soon and more training videos on the new version. P.S. Twitter Lists went down when I loaded the new version, so I haven't had the chance to play with them yet. Can't wait. All else is working fantastic. I have a few suggestions:

1. Do not default notifications to on for new searches, as I have to go turn them off each time I add a new column from search.
2. After sending a tweet/post to/from several sources, i.e. FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, default back to the first and only source.
3. More info and more obvious when you have used up your API counts for a specific account
4. Create an exit icon next to logout, that shuts app off completely but retains login
5. Fix "red" color change when you reduce tweet length back under 140, it sticks now until you backspace again

Sorry for the grammar issues above...

For some reason when I click on the minimize button it doesn't go to the task bar (near the time) in windows Vista, it goes to the "quick launch" bar near the start button. Any idea why?

Very good, like the nice slick interface. Is there any way to make the columns wider?

When I saw that Tweetdeck was supporting Lists I was thrilled. After reading a comment from a user above, I'm less than excited about the current implementation. Marking tweets as seen and then removing them should keep them removed. Having them pop back again with future updates makes lists less useful. The other features in Tweetdeck look quite useful and hopefully the list feature will become more useful in the near future.

Looks good. Can't wait to check it out!

I think there's a lists related bug, as James Schipper mentioned: When you click either 'Clear all' button or 'Clear seen updates' button, the corresponding tweets disappear, that's OK. But they appear again when the app does refresh. I hope you fix this bug, thanks. By the way, I'm really happy with this update, thanks so much.

I hope my earlier comment did not sound like I was unhappy with the product. After the only problem I'd ever had using Tweetdeck, I was nearly in hives at having to use any of the other options out there. If I couldn't use Tweetdeck, I likely would have to taper off Twitter entirely. The other options are not even worth the trouble.

As far as the "bug" I spoke about, I am sure it has something to do with Twitter directly, as the Tweetdeck groups do things differently. I was not complaining about Tweetdeck, as I am sure the dev team knows about it. If they could get those columns to function like that, I'm sure they would. But for Twitter columns, it appears the clearing of tweets is not functional at all.

Marking them read does function and it retains that setting once that button is cleared. It's only clearing them with the scissor button that is futile.

Another thing I noticed with Twitter direct columns (New followers, mentions, lists), is that if you mark them as read, it isn't marking them universally as read, only in that column.

With Tweetdeck groups, if you marked a group column as read, they would also be marked as read in the All Friends column. It worked the same way if you marked the All Friends column as read, then all of the tweets in your groups would be marked read.

Now if you mark a twitter list column as read, they still are showing as unread in the all friends column. It makes clearing each group as you read them near impossible.

So basically with the Twitter list feature in place, the marking of tweets as read and being able to unclutter your feeds of the read tweets nearly doesn't work at all.

This isn't a huge deal for me at the moment, as I will just continue using the Tweetdeck groups unless it gets fixed. But the video did hint of them being phased out, which could botch that plan, of course :-)

Anyone have any ideas of what I may be missing?

Hi everyone, thanks again for your comments. We really have been thrilled with everyone's support for this release.
For those asking about clearing "read" tweets, we are aware of this issue and will work to get a fix in place as soon as we can.

The fact that each list uses an API call makes it a huge drain on real time updates. I have everyone in groups (5 in total including 1 "not in other lists") and I used to be able to have 1 "all friends" and multiple groups, which would update quite quickly (e.g. at 100% 24s), but now if I have 5 lists, each one updates quite slowly (again e.g. at 100% 1m37s) Am I missing something?
I think I too will stick to groups for the moment. Thankfully I don't think I have a need to create new ones.

And, like James Schipper, I should say that I love tweetdeck, and am happy with some of the new options (close/minimise to tray as an option!).
I guess, in short, I moan because I care.

@spoon579 - Indeed the rate limit on Lists is imposed by Twitter and remains something of an issue for everyone working with it. However, the Lists API is only now starting to hit mainstream and hopefully that will lead to some changes in the way rates are handled.
It was a difficult decision for us to take to elave TweetDeck Groups behind, but it was a necessary move. Lists are the future and we needed to lay the groundwork for that future without having to also maintain another grouping methodology too.
Really appreciate your feedback. Lets all be sure to keep nudging the good guys at Twitter about the Lists rate limit too :)

Overall, I like the update, but I do have one issue with the way retweets are displayed. Unless I'm missing something, the only way to tell who retweeted is their userpic. Which basically means that if someone you follow changed their pic (or they don't post often enough for you to be familiar with it), there's no way of knowing who retweeted short of logging into Twitter on the web. I kinda thought the idea of TweetDeck was to not have to do that.

I knew they were well aware of it :-)

Tell us who or where to "nudge" the fine folks at Twitter to allow these changes, and the nudging shall commence immediately!

Again, Tweetdeck is fantastic! I am of course getting my money's worth out of it and not complaining at all!

Can't wait to download the new Tweetdeck & integrate all the new options!

Many, many thanks for the fine work you guys are doing on TweetDeck! I LOVE IT!

Riddle me this: Groups can no longer be created in @TweetDeck yet the App doesn't support lists yet... So how are they to synch up?

Like others, I really appreciate the work that has gone in to TweetDeck. I'm hoping the issue with lists and read tweets is something that can be fixed relatively soon.

Regarding List support, will this support also be coming to the iPhone version in the near future?

Thanks again for creating a terrific Twitter application.

Yes, the iPhone app is being updated to handle Lists as we speak and we should have a new update available very soon

I like the improvements. Thanks a lot, pals!

After a full day of use, I'm loving it. Couple of significant issues to note:

1. When I click the "compose update" button, I then have to click into the "update window" to start typing. Why?
2. I awoke this morning and all my DMs rec'd were gone. Only the sent showed?
3. Why can't I get the history on my iPhone version, seems it doesn't sync with Twitter or Tweetdeck AIR, only what I last saw or what is to come shows.

http://www.ericgreenspan.com
@ericgreenspan

And when I log out of TD and log back in, now all mentions and all DMs are missing (historically) and start populating again. Is this by design?

@swadeshine What do you mean by "the app doesn't support lists yet"? You can now create and add already existing lists in TweetDeck as well as converting a Group to a Twitter list.

@Eric Greenspan All columns and lists are reloaded when you restart or log off and then back on in TweetDeck.

As for the other points:
1. I can start typing immediately after clicking the compose update button as well as after hitting the c key (compose update keyboard shortcut).
2. Might have been a Twitter issue.
3. Don't really understand the issue you're having.

Also, please remember that the best place to ask for help and support is the TweetDeck Support page which can be found at http://support.tweetdeck.com

@mylostshadow I was referring to the iPhone app which presently no longer allows you to create groups - or lists

I can understand the issue with the API rates, and I know that is a Twitter issue. As a matter of fact, I would think most of the List issues might be Twitter issues, still, the end result is that a List Column does not have near the functionality that, if I might say so, we are all used to with Groups:

1) Replies are not shown, unless the user replied to is also in the same list
2) New style Retweets are not shown

The end result is that the "All Friends" column, which I would say a lot of Tweetdeck users might just be ignoring, becomes a much more important column, which changes fundamentaly the way one uses Tweetdeck. I do think the new List functionality is great, and an important step towards the future. I just think that fully deprecating the old Group functionaility is jumping the gun a little. The way Lists Columns currently work is simply not currently a good enough replacement for traditional Tweetdeck Groups

Love TweetDeck and the list feature as I dreaded the thought of having to manually put together all my former groups as lists.

What I miss, however, is an auto-refresh of tweets showing up in my various lists without having to click the refresh button. Is there something I miss here?

Also, it would be great if TweetDeck would recognize my new re-set password and not return a pswd not recognized error when I try to verify my account.

The list feature is nice, but it has 2 annoying bugs. 1st: tweets you mark as seen in one column aren't marked as seen in other lists like they did b4 the update. 2nd: tweets that you mark as seen and then clear reappear after it refreshes, quite annoying. Really the first is the most annoying because I don't like having to re-read tweets, It is a real hinderence and slows you down, I frequently read stuff out of my favorites column, mark all as seen, then clear those tweets from every other column and start reading from there, saves time.

Otherwise, love the update! Will be posting a review on my blog shortly.

@BigE54 - You make some good points, and it is true that Lists do operate differently to TweetDeck groups in some ways, which could be seen as a step back in terms of functionality.
However, continuing to offer creation of TweetDeck Groups and all the overheads that come with them would have not only delayed this release, but also kept us tied to a grouping system that inevitably people are moving away from. We needed to take a brave step and focus our efforts on getting the most out of Lists that we could. It is different, sure, and we understand that, so we're doing everything we can to help the transition. And it may be that we all lose a bit of functionality initially, but making this step now means that we are in a fantastic position to bring you all the great new Lists-based functionality that is, without doubt, going to be heading our way. Now that every TweetDeck user is able to easily create and use Lists, the guys at Twitter will hopefully see that changes are needed and we'll be ready to support them.

@Joe Buhler Hi Joe, Lists will auto-update if you go to Settings > Twitter and adjust your Lists slider. You might want to check out this FAQ first though: http://support.tweetdeck.com/forums/63876/entries/83924

@Ryan - The problems you mention with 'mark as seen' should be fixed in the next point release, coming very soon.

If you say that leaving all of the previous Group functionality would have delayed this release, then I am sure that is the case. I actually think the new List functionality is wonderful. All I want to point out really, is what I hope would be one your goals as soon as is reasonable. I don't mean to speak for all users, but I think I speak for many when I say that the most prevelent use of Groups was to create a subset of All Friends, to make it easy to manage a lot of people who you want to follow. Groups made it easy to do that, as we were able to see all the tweets from anyone in a Group column, just as if they were in All Friends. Obviously, for now, a List Column does not behave just like All Friends. What that means is that you cannot rely on a List Column to show you all the tweets that someone in it makes. It makes managing a large group of people you follow a bit more difficult, as you need to go back to the All Friends column,which defeats the whole purpose of dividing up the people you follow, or go back to using a Group Column. I do hope that you are working towards bringing the full funtionality of All Friends to List Columns.

This is a great update, but where is support for image posting to Posterous? Even you guys use it fo your blog! :)

Just wanted to say what a fantastic job you guys do!

Hmm, I've only one problem with this last version...
When I mark a tweet "seen" , in the other column where it apear it's not mark as "seen" (in all friend per exemple).

That's the reason I adopted tweetdeck since several months, so I hope we should have again this usefull feature... :)

The twitter lists seem to be updating only the unseen tweets now! Excellent! I only have 1 open list column at the moment, right next to a Tweetdeck Group with the same people on it. It has been pretty consistent the past day or two.

Once the mark as seen issue gets fixed, it'll be time to transition to the new lists.

Thanks!

I love Tweetdeck and the new enhancements are great.

My only criticisms so far would be:

1. When I go to add an existing Twitter list, it seems I can only add one at a time. It would be great if I could import multiple lists (ie: all of them) in one go.

2. Column names for lists are not very clear. Since lists start with the name of the Twitter account followed by "/" and then the list name, all the list column titles show "@.../". In other words, you can only see the list name if you mouse over the column title. Since the Twitter account is already shown on the right hand side of a column header, it would be good if list columns could just strip out the "@.../" part as it's essentially redundant.

Keep up the great work.

Robert

Unless I'm looking at something wrong, ( 0.32.1 ), when viewing the new RT's I'm not able to see who actually _made_ the RT except in the icon...? It would be really nice to have the RTer's name in there somewhere, too, linked, etc...

I regret that groups are gone. While there's overlap between lists and groups for me an important distinction is that lists are public and groups allow me to privately organize those I follow.

Onno, Twitter lists can be private or public.

First let me say I am a BIG TweetDeck fan.

Question: When I incorporate a Twitter List if a person on List A @'s someone not on List A I do not see it. I do follow them but cannot see the Tweet.

Example: I have a MN News List. If they send a Tweet to someone on the MN Sports List (someone in their own news room) I do not see it.

Is this my error (I expect it is)?

I ask because my Lists, the people in each one, cross over.

Features demand:
1) Ability to choose a WAV or MP3 audio file to be played when updates arrive
2) Online version of the application
3) Fix problems when installing the application in two different computers (settings sync and the likes)
4) Add services: youtube, flickr, picasa, slideshare, scribd, xing, email?
Thanks for an outstanding piece of software.

Great features. Please ad Hyves.nl (dutch facebook) en msn/jabber accounts. Then Tweetdeck is complete!! Beats Google Wave then ;-)

Wow this is absolutely loaded! This is the first time that I'm hearing about this so I suppose I had better get on board ;)

This is your best update yet. No other Social App comes close. Good job people!

I'll be happy when they make an app for Android. I'd prefer to use the same app on the desktop as I do on my phone.