![]() ![]() A search for ‘twitter’ ‘tweetdeck’ ‘columns’ and ‘alternative’ brought up Janetter. (If you work at Twitter, please take note – your desktop client is a piece of shit.) I want a desktop client. I won’t use the Twitter desktop app – I hate it. With few alternatives left to me, I shut down my Tweetdeck and looked for something to replace it. TweetDeck is not available on mobile, and you need a viewport resolution greater than 500px in width and 500px in height to access TweetDeck Preview. It seemed they weren’t messing around any more. Next thing I noticed was that I couldn’t retweet anything any more. I noticed the little blurb along the top bar telling me Tweetdeck would stop working on May 7th. TweetDeck (see Figure 20-3), acquired by Twitter in 2011, is a social media dashboard application for managing Twitter and other social network accounts. Soon, that version stopped working on my iPhone, and the desktop app has had some issues, but still trudged along. I refused to do the updates, keeping my tried and true version of Tweetdeck. See, Twitter bought Tweetdeck a while ago and promptly fucked it up with ‘updates’ and ‘features’ that actually nerfed it worse than a Blizzard patch on Tuesday turned your bad-ass DPS powerhouse Mage into a walking whiffle ball of fluffy suckiness. I kinda saw this coming but have resisted the urge to completely panic until now. And not only because it’s constantly freezing or getting overwhelmed by users. ![]() For example, they want you to go to the website. When we don’t, they get a little perturbed. Originally from Puerto Rico, Janette began her career in the music industry by joining Symphonic as one of their first hires. The tools they produce should be the ones we use. Though not (yet) as bad as Facebook, Twitter thinks they know how we should experience Twitter. Everything I needed right there in a single interface. The columns were fantastic as I could have different ones for my feed, mentions, new followers, custom searches, lists – you name it. You dont have to pay anything to use Janetter, but theres a Pro version that introduces. One desktop app that allowed me to do both Twitter and Facebook. And not only does Tweeten offer more features than TweetDeck. In a frustrating and maddening move, Twitter has announced the end of Tweetdeck.įor me, Tweetdeck was an incredibly valuable resource. ![]()
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