TweetDeck Beta

P.S. Here's my review of Tweetdeck on the iPhone.

Hence, I can verify my TweetDeck account on desktop version, but cannot on iPhone app.

Probably just a simple bug that checks for special characters on iPhone app, but not on desktop version.

-c

Across the board, for both the iPhone and the desktop client, I would like to see the ability to save draft tweets. Other than those small issues, this is probably the best twitter client out there. Great work.

Would be awesome if you could...and that it could synch with the desktop client so that you don't need to re-read tweets when you get back to your desktop.

also very frustrating that you cannot select a tweet when accessing via a users "Recent Tweets". In my view this is a major bug and potential deal breaker. Until this one is fixed Tweetie is still my go to app for Twitter on the iPhone.

All that being said the features and layout are great and this is certainly headed in the right direction.

- Automatically go to the first unread tweet.
- Difficult to see the color difference between read and unread in the sun (especially with glasses on). Maybe use a lighter grey for unread?
- Inline name and url clicking without having to open to the Tweet details
- In the new Tweet dialog, give me an option to select a follower's name.
- With Scott above, I have noticed the app can be unstable at times - it seems to be even more unstable when I have it open and I get a Lotus Notes push mail notification (guess the same would be with ActiveSync accounts in general).

Thanks again for the great app, and looking forward to the next release!

On the desktop, I used to use TweetDeck exclusively, then tried Tweetie and use that more than anything. I guess it's a back and forth between single column VS multiple columns.

So, TweetDeck on iPhone FTW!

TweetDeck has allowed me to harness the power of Twitter and I'm loving it. I never found Twitter that useful before TweetDeck.

That being said, I'd like to add to previous requests for the following features:
- Push notifications
- Landscape view
- Go to last unread tweet

I'd also like to submit two bug reports:
- Crashes frequently
- Not updating properly (I missing hours of tweets!)

I've gone back to using Tweetie. While I wish it had groups, it addresses everything else listed above.

But as you may have guessed, 2 tweets accidentally went out under both work acct. & personal one AND they were RT of my boss's tweet. Awesome! Now he's following my personal account which I had preferred to remain secret. Great job!

I immediately switched to Seesmic desktop. I wished this hadn't happened but now stuck with my boss following my personal account. But I will not be fooling any more with buggy TweetDeck.

- When I open the app and I touch anywhere on the screen before it has finished loading it crashes every time.
- Even if I am connected to the fastest wi-fi or have full 3G servie I always get a "no/slow Internet" pop up. Frustrating.
- Not all of my friends or followers are in the list.
- Whenenver I am viewing a friend's recent tweets I am unable to view their TweetDetail. I can't even click on it.
- If I am trying to @mention friends in a tweet I really miss the "friends list" that many other Twitter apps have.
- Whenever DMing a friend, the top still says "New Tweet," and that might confuse some people--I know it says the whole "D username," but it would still be smart to change it to say "New DM" or something.
- Random crash attacks. Gives apps a bad rep haha. I was showing a friend how awesome the iPhone is, I opened the tweetdeck app and was showing him around it and it CRASHED. I was like, "Most apps don't crash! I promise! It is new!"
- Scroll to first unread would be freaking great.
- When I accidentally tilt my phone sideways it completely freaks out. The notifications look fine sideways--almost like it is programmed to have a landscape setting, but my columns end up vertical and horizontal at the same time.
- A lot of times I will read tweets and when I visit the app again later it either lost those tweets or it thinks I haven't read it yet.

I think that's all my frustration, when these things are fixed I will be ecstatic.

Screenshots »

http://twitpic.com/915et and http://twitpic.com/915de

There is also no option to email a Tweet to a friend that most other apps have. Yes, you don't want to be the same as most other apps but face it, its all about the UI that really differentiates all these Twitter apps otherwise we would all just use Twitter instead!

So, add the missing features and debug this sucker! Oh, while you're at it, in addition to the all important start at last unread Tweet, would be nice if the sync feature also synced what you last read...I bounce back between iPhone and two desktops running Tweetdeck. I end up relying on Twitterfon to help me find which my last unread tweet was, then use Tweetdeck to find it.

Suggestions:

Upon opening, have app autoscroll to first unread tweet.

Allow it to save typed text. For example, if I start typing a tweet , but want to add a link later, it would be nice to close the app, find a link, copy it, and return to the app to paste it without retyping tweet.

As with the PC, a way to spell check would be nice , but may currently be impossible on the iPhone. But, not big deal for me.

If you could fix the issue and add my suggestions, TweetDeck would be my only Twitter app.