Friday, December 9, 2011

Hands on With Twitter's TweetDeck

Hands on With Twitter's TweetDeck

's acclimatisation from almighty beta to chronicle 1.0 is complete, and with this transition comes a fresh, new look, a shedding of a Adobe AIR behind finish and a graduation to local desktop app. In some ways, it's still a Twitter dashboard we know and adore and in other ways, TweetDeck will never be a same.

rolled out a new TweetDeck as partial of that embody a new Twitter homepage, new Twitter for a iPhone and more.

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A discerning peek during TweetDeck's final pre V1 version, V 0.38.2, subsequent to Twitter's TweetDeck 1.0 (Twitter purchased a height in May) and we competence not see many of a difference, yet afterwards all a changes come crisply into focus. The small orange and black trademark is gone, transposed by a blue Twitter bird. Tweets upsurge in during roughly a accurate same rate, yet they've been subtly reconfigured. Every tweet now starts with a boldface name. Whomever wrote a twitter gets credit on top. I'm not certain this improves a TweetDeck experience, yet it does finish a squinting during a small gray Twitter hoop next any tweet.

Inside any tweet, all links are Twitter blue. In a aged TweetDeck, they were underlined and white. Again, this is ostensible to support in twitter readability. By and large, we consider it succeeds. Hashtags are in a same sky-blue color, as are all @mentions within a tweet.

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Old TweetDeck launches with a twitter mirror stretched by default. Twitter's TweetDeck keeps it closed, yet offers a larger, blue twitter button, that launches a twitter submit pop-up window. Column navigation has shifted to a tip of a window and is also extremely larger.

Twitter has also taken this event to refocus users on a possess services. So Twitter's TweetDeck defaults to Twitter's URL shortener and Twitter's print services. Old TweetDeck delivered photos to YFrog by default and still used bit.ly for URLs. You can still name to use these services, yet with them now dark behind a settings menu choice it's doubtful TweetDeck users will ever use them again.

All a controls that seemed during a bottom of any mainstay are gone, and transposed with a settings symbol that usually appears when we name a column. Notification pop-up and sound control are now during a tip of any mainstay (instead of being dark underneath settings). Not all controls have survived a transition, though. Yes, we can pierce columns, transparent tweets and mislay tweets, yet "filter" and "what's popular" are gone. Similarly, some of a controls for particular users have disappeared. The "add to organisation or list" symbol is gone, for instance.

Tweets still uncover post time, yet day and date are gone. The approach summary mainstay remains, yet it's been renamed "inbox". we get a feeling Twitter might be looking to do pided with that label. One underline that I'll certainly skip from a aged TweetDeck is a ability to float over an avatar and entrance reply, retweet, approach summary and other actions. Now we have to click a avatar to get a vast pop-up that indeed hides approach summary underneath another drop-down menu.

A new hunt box is manifest nearby a tip of a interface. This serves to reinstate a "add column" and "quick form buttons." Now hunt allows we to do both with your results.

The saturated aged TweetDeck settings window, that featured 9 vital areas and dozens of sub-choices has been boiled down and spotless adult so some windows have only a handful of large-font choices on a nice, white background.

Overall, a demeanour and feel of Twitter's TweetDeck is cleaner than aged TweetDeck. Part of it is a some-more unchanging and rather narrower tone palette (black, white, blue and maybe dual shades of gray), and that there is some-more space around tweets and avatars, that creates a latter demeanour larger.

Twitter's TweetDeck looks accurately like this in a web interface, as well. That's since it's built in HTML5 and maintains a unchanging demeanour and feel opposite probably all platforms, including Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, and many browser platforms.

Do we like it? we consider so. It's easier to review and works smoothly. Tweeting from it, including retweets and quoted tweets is problem free. we can still conduct mixed accounts, post to Facebook, and lane probably any violation news story in mixed columns -- all only as we could with aged TweetDeck.

There will be some who will bewail a pull to user Twitter's possess tools, yet they'll shortly forget they ever used Yfrog. Others might consternation if a exit from a height is a bad pointer for Adobe, yet that association is fast relocating to adoption, as well. For me, I'm simply blissful Twitter has once and for all proven a sum joining to TweetDeck, my once and destiny go-to-dashboard for Twitter management.

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