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Twitter discontinuing TweetDeck for iPhone and Android “early May”

By on March 4, 2013 at 7:50pm in Mobile News

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Twitter snatched up TweetDeck back in May of 2011 for $40 million. At the time Iain Dodsworth, founder of TweetDeck, stated the team of 15 will be “joining the flock… Change may well be inevitable, but we remain the same team, staying in London, with the same focus and products, and now with the support and resources to allow us to grow and take on even bigger challenges.”

Over the past few years there has been notable integration of TweetDeck’s structure within Twitter, but now, a couple years later Twitter has decided it’s time to shut down some of the services. In a TweetDeck blog post they noted “To continue to offer a great product that addresses your unique needs, we’re going to focus our development efforts on our modern, web-based versions of TweetDeck. To that end, we are discontinuing support for our older apps: TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone. They will be removed from their respective app stores in early May and will stop functioning shortly thereafter. We’ll also discontinue support for our Facebook integration.”

TweetDeck also stated one of the reasons for the move is because they’ve seen a “steady trend towards people using TweetDeck on their computers and Twitter on their mobile devices.” So if you’re a fan of TweetDeck you’ll still be able to have access via the web and Chrome apps. In addition, Twitter will continue to make “an increased investment” the Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android apps.

Source: TweetDeck
Via: TNW

  • 45

    So.. I read this news when @MobileSyrup tweeted it. I read it on Tweetdeck. (on my computer, mind you).

  • Plazmic Flame

    I friggin’ hate Twitter for pratically killing such an awesome product like TweetDeck. The web version is garbage, tweet later function doesn’t work unless I leave the browser open all day… wtf…

  • John Lee

    Twitter has been buying products and then shutting it down for no good reasons (eg. Posterous and Tweetdeck) other than getting rid of competitor platforms.

  • Jeff

    i was a long time user of tweetdeck (desktop and android). i like how they say there is a steady trend towards people using Twitter on their mobile devices but they failed to update the product since Sept 2011(android). i’m sure this was a long term plan.

  • Sly

    So, what would be the best viable option to go for? I’ve tried a couple of those and Tweetdeck was the best…

    • Goots

      Tweetdeck for desktop has never been that good really. Some features are very annoying and some simply don’t work. FalconPro is the best mobile app imho (although that’s having it’s fair share of problems recently) but for desktop, it has to be Janetter. It’s leagues ahead of any competition.

  • wes

    I loved tweetdeck for windows til twitter bought it and gutted it. I have tried several twitter clients for android and moved on from seismic to falconpro. I love the html preview.