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Twitter finally cancels TweetDeck for Android (and, by association, TweakDeck)
Mar 05 2013 12:00 PM |
PaulOBrien
in Android
In an update posted on their Posterous page, TweetDeck have finally confirmed that TweetDeck for Android is being retired, along with TweetDeck AIR and TweetDeck for iPhone. By association, my TweakDeck application will also cease to function.
The move, which is being made as part of an effort to 'focus development efforts on our modern, web-based versions of TweetDeck' comes at a time when Twitter as an organisation are pushing users to their primary clients as much as possible, as well as doing their best to stifle third party clients by limiting the number of users they can support and switching to a more restrictive API.
In another move that cements their 'locked in' model, the web based TweetDeck application will cease to support Facebook integration.
TweetDeck have stated that over the next two months users of TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone may experience some outages with those apps before they are removed from their respective app stores in early May.
So how does this affect TweakDeck, my 'fixed up' TweetDeck client that has nearly half a million downloads in the Play Store? Unfortunately... it too is doomed. Firstly, switching from the TweetDeck credentials internally to my own development credentials is virtually impossible because the application uses XAuth for authentication, which is no longer available to developers. Secondly, it is based on API 1.0 and switching to API 1.1 would be a huge undertaking. Disappointing, but it's out of my hands unfortunately.
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The move, which is being made as part of an effort to 'focus development efforts on our modern, web-based versions of TweetDeck' comes at a time when Twitter as an organisation are pushing users to their primary clients as much as possible, as well as doing their best to stifle third party clients by limiting the number of users they can support and switching to a more restrictive API.
In another move that cements their 'locked in' model, the web based TweetDeck application will cease to support Facebook integration.
TweetDeck have stated that over the next two months users of TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone may experience some outages with those apps before they are removed from their respective app stores in early May.
So how does this affect TweakDeck, my 'fixed up' TweetDeck client that has nearly half a million downloads in the Play Store? Unfortunately... it too is doomed. Firstly, switching from the TweetDeck credentials internally to my own development credentials is virtually impossible because the application uses XAuth for authentication, which is no longer available to developers. Secondly, it is based on API 1.0 and switching to API 1.1 would be a huge undertaking. Disappointing, but it's out of my hands unfortunately.
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From the whole TweetDeck team, we’re excited about what the future holds. We hope you are too.
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11 Comments
dulpit
Mar 05 2013 12:02 PM
Any recommendations Paul?
PaulOBrien
Mar 05 2013 12:03 PM
Zarch1972
Mar 05 2013 12:06 PM
I'm actually more gutted the web/chrome version of Tweetdeck is going to lose Facebook.
rferrett
Mar 05 2013 12:10 PM
joshsharp
Mar 05 2013 12:35 PM
PaulOBrien
Mar 05 2013 12:49 PM
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IsoNick
Mar 05 2013 08:33 PM
bitoclass
Mar 06 2013 07:36 AM
All the vast range of other apps I've tried only seem to update when they're in the foreground, though they'll notify you in the background if you have new replies etc.
(It's particularly surprising to me how few apps even cache the tweets they have downloaded anyway - you'd think in a limited-download-allowance situation they'd want to cling to anything they'd already grabbed rather than redownloading all the tweets every time you load a List, for instance.)
I really value the knowledge that all the tweets since I last looked are already sitting there in TweakDeck waiting for me to look at, regardless of connectivity at the point when I actually want to look at them. If anyone can point me to another app that does this, I'll be very grateful.
(Longer version: all I want from a mobile Twitter client)
unrandomsam
Mar 10 2013 09:34 PM
tcp21
Apr 05 2013 01:00 PM
oo03sjw
Apr 06 2013 09:34 AM