In all fairness, it’s not being completely taken away—in exactly one week, I might add. It will still be available as a web service, much like all the aggregators I’ve been reviewing over the past month. But I used the desktop version, amusing since I also posted how I didn’t like desktop readers. I just think it’s different with Twitter. I like to check it, well, a lot, and I’m often online at the same time. For whatever reason, I prefer to keep my TweetDeck separate from my online stuff.
Right now I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I could go with the online version of TweetDeck, even if I really don’t want to. I could also switch to another desktop app, of which there are painfully few. There’s one called MetroTwit, which isn’t terrible, but it starts up very slowly for me. This might be my computer, which isn’t exactly high tech. Either way, I’m not sure I’d like to put up with this every time I open the dang thing. However, it’s also a pretty nice app. It shows my new mentions/messages when I open it, I was easily able to customize it similar to my TweetDeck set up in the few ways it wasn’t already a close copy, and most importantly, I’m able to send a tweet by hitting enter. Yes, that is very important to me.
So I’m caught between the online TweetDeck and MetroTwit. They’re pretty neck and neck right now. I’ll have to muse on this some more.
Hey. This is serious business.
I'm a Hootsuite user. I liked things about Tweetdeck when I tried it, but was already used to Hoot by then. Of course, I access it online. I don't have a fancy cell phone. I only recently got one with a QWERTY keyboard. hahaha
ReplyDeleteI've never used either of those. Or Hootsuite. I have no idea what they do, but I suddenly have the feeling I may not be optimizing my Twitter time.
ReplyDeleteI know those things exist, but I have not used them. Good thing if they're going away.
ReplyDeleteI've heard of these things, particularly hootsuite, but I've never used them.
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