Today we’ve got some bad news for TweetDeck users, as most of you know Twitter had bought TweetDeck in May 2011 for $50 million. And today we have got a new report confirming that Twitter’s next step is shutting down TweetDeck for iOS, Android TweetDeck AIR on May 1…
That said, now is the time to make a backup copy of your local TweetDeck installer, which can be found inside the Mobile Applications folder of your iTunes library – just in case.
According to the blog post, Twitter will also disable Facebook integration in TweetDeck apps on May 7. The useful feature lets you keep tabs on your Facebook Wall and News Feed in TweetDeck columns, and even post status updates from within the app.
The decision to kill mobile clients won’t affect desktop and web apps, which will enjoy continued development on the Mac and Windows side, in addition to TweetDeck Chrome and web apps.
The current TweetDeck apps remain available free of charge on the App Store App Store and Mac App Store.
Twitter claims power-users predominantly use the web-based experience so “discontinuing our app support is a reflection†of that.
We think these web and Chrome apps provide the best TweetDeck experience yet, and that they are the apps in which you’ll want to see us add new capabilities first, followed closely by our Mac and PC apps.
And for those of you who are inconvenienced by this shift, our sincere apologies,†Twitter’s blog post reads.
This is a very bad news for many people, but why sadness ? iOS and Mac users still have a lot of alternatives apps for example like Tweetbot, Twitterrefic and other great apps..
Unfortunately, as Twitter started cutting back on what developers could do with their API, the market for Twitter apps has changed quite a bit.
So are you sad to see TweetDeck go ?
