TweetDeck’s Preview version is currently testing with a limited number of people in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, per its website, and aims to offer more features, including a full Tweet Composer, Advanced search features, new column types and “Decks” - a new way to group columns into workspaces.Īlthough Twitter isn’t fully ending support for TweetDeck, given that it will live on as a web app, many users prefer a native experience. Image Credits: TweetDeck’s shutdown message to users ![]() Years went by without significant development - despite having a small, but fairly passionate user base who had even said they would be willing to pay for a premium version of the app. It outbid UberMedia in order to win the deal, bringing the app in-house.īut its inattention to the product was clear. Twitter saw this as a competitive threat and largely bought TweetDeck just to keep it out of UberMedia’s hands, not because it was devoted to the product. It bought the service at a time when rival UberMedia was snatching up social media market share by buying up apps like Echofon, UberTwitter and Mixx. ![]() You can still use TweetDeck on web and more invites to try the Preview will be rolling out over the next few months!Īcquired by Twitter in 2011 for just $40 million, Twitter never really developed TweetDeck to its full potential. July 1 is the last day it'll be available. We're saying goodbye to TweetDeck for the Mac app to focus on making TweetDeck even better and testing our new Preview.
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