TweetDeck Beta

I've turned off the "Allow TweetDeck to manage my API limit" option, and I've chosen specific percentages of time. I would prefer to choose an actual amount of time instead--I don't want it estimating based on the percentages, I want it to check every ten minutes. Period.

But even with the option turned off, and with the timing set at about eight minutes between checks, it's automatically checking anywhere from every two minutes down to every fourteen seconds. Which is ridiculous. It's annoying, it's getting in the way of concentrating on other programs, and it's needlessly running down the API, as if it's trying to use every available update.

Unlike a lot of people, I've never run out of updates within an hour. I like having it check every ten minutes and, if I'm actively conversing via Twitter, I like the option of manually checking in between those updates. Beyond that, I don't need it to check so frequently. Right now, it seems to be on an eight second interval.

Is there any way to revert to the previous version until this bug is worked out?

@Sachin Yeah, we are hoping to add posting to Posterous very soon :)

@David OK sounds like we still have a bit of work to do on the API sliders. Could you raise a ticket here http://bit.ly/tdticket with all your API details and screenshots please?

@cmumathwhiz You CAN see that, just hover over the column navigator at the bottom of the screen

@Kate What seems to be going wrong when you try to add it?

2- A web based version of Tweetdeck would be lovely, 'cause then we could work with it even out of out personal computers (working temporarily in computers without TweetDeck installed, for example).

3- Figuring out a way to keep track of short-url stats would be more than fantastic. Although that's a service provided by the URL shortening provider (bit.ly, for example), you could manage a way to sync with the service and let us check the stats from within TweedtDeck, and so making our browsers finally really redundant in what it relates to twitter.

4- Simultaneous selections of users and tweets through the column's timelines and bunch deleting, bunch unfollowing, bunch adding them to new groups/lists or changing their groups/lists without having to access group by group would be extremely lovely.

5- The option of seeing which users are out of any list would be a "killer" update. That would help us to reallocate recently added friends to theirs proper groups.

I think these updates would make TweetDeck absolutely complete.

I hope I was helpful, cause TweetDeck has been extremely helpful to me too. All the best! :)

6- The ability of doing searches of specific words through all the columns would be very good. I don't mean the Twitter Searches that already exist. Example: Sometimes we have too many simultaneous updates in too many columns and one or more catch our attention for a fraction of time. We know it's a tweet, say, about #Gbuzz, but we just can't remember the column or friend/follower's name that wrote that, and so we can't find the link to the shared article (typical in Twitter, many of us have too many followers or friends to identify everyone). With a search like this, in this example, we would need nothing else than writing "Gbuzz" on this TweetDeck inner search and voilá... the tweet is found. Doesn't sound hard, right?

christ. i'm livid right now.

+1 for adding a Hide like the Facebook page to TweetDeck.