![]() The redeeming quality is that doing Twitter-things with TweetDeck is much more intuitive. The settings are simpler and easy to navigate. And the retweet button no longer looks like that weird forward arrow. ![]() The reply arrow finally responds to everyone mentioned in the tweet. Now you can just click the star on a tweet. To favorite a tweet in the old TweetDeck, you had to select the action in a menu. Maybe it is a lot simpler than than the old TweetDeck, but at least it is significantly easier to use. If we look closer, we’ll find that a lot has changed under the hood. While I don’t like the new icon, and while arguably the native app isn’t really native, TweetDeck at least looks familiar on the surface. The interface is much more user friendly than before. TweetDeck’s native update resolves the problem I’ve always had. I simply found the interface confusing and cluttered. I could care less about the Air part - a gaming computer isn’t going to flinch at that. Personally, I didn’t like using TweetDeck. I understand lots of people were very comfortable with the Air app: they understood all the icons and where to find that blasted reply-all action that was hidden in a menu. While I just switched to Echofon’s excellent Windows Beta, my primary Twitter tool was TweetDeck for a long time. That other part of my day is spent on Windows (which I don’t mind). Like Twitter, it’s another big change many will have a hard time adjusting to. Yesterday, TweetDeck launched natively on Mac and Windows, bringing with it a brand new experience in-line with #NewNewTwitter’s focus. When Twitter acquired TweetDeck back in May, many questioned whether Twitter would continue to maintain the client, and whether Twitter would rebrand the app to better fit into their ecosystem. TweetBot is another personal favorite thanks to its seamless timeline synchronization across iOS and macOS, though the app costs $9.99.TweetDeck has always been looked up to as the power-user’s go-to Twitter app thanks to a huge feature set, its multi-column layout, quick filtering, and its availability across platforms thanks to Adobe Air. However, Mac users looking for a better Twitter client still have lots of alternatives such as the TweetDeck-based Tweeten, which is free to download. Twitter is still maintaining its separate Twitter for Mac app, which receives updates quite regularly. If you don’t like using TweetDeck in the browser tab, web browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge now make it really easy to turn websites into “apps” without all the browser UI. ![]() The TweetDeck for Mac app is pretty much a wrapper for the web app, and it probably didn’t make sense to keep it around after the Windows app was retired years ago. You can still use TweetDeck on web and more invites to try the Preview will be rolling out over the next few months! 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. Twitter has also started testing a new version of TweetDeck in private preview, and the company expects to send more invites in the coming months. “We’re saying goodbye to TweetDeck for the Mac app to focus on making TweetDeck even better and testing our new Preview,” the TweetDeck team said on Twitter. The app has remained on the Mac App Store after Twitter previously retired the TweetDeck app for Windows, but the company now invites Mac users to switch to the web version of TweetDeck. Twitter announced today that it will be sunsetting its TweetDeck for Mac app on July 1.
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