The death of TweetDeck?

This article at MacWorld makes me realize that you get what you pay for on “free” services like facebook and twitter. It’s tempting, of course, to bemoan the ever growing number of advertisements that plague these two social media services, but you have to remember they are free, they are trying to make money and you don’t have to join the services if you don’t want to.

It is legitimately annoying, however, when these services decide to simply abandon something they provided. TweetDeck is an invaluable tool to keep track of what’s happening on twitter, because let’s face it, just looking at the twitter stream is unmanageable unless you only follow Trappist monks.

Right now I have TweetDeck open and I’m following all tweets with Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse hashtags. Also one column is devoted to any mentions of me (a short column), another column devoted to those people I especially stalk find interesting and other includes everyone I follow. I could never do that just through twitter.com.

But the article mentions that twitter will be abandoning TweetDeck for Android and iOS devices and makes one wonder if PCs and Macs will soon be left high and dry. Let’s hope twitter is just getting ready to release a better twitter client.

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Jennifer Petkus divides her time between writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, creating websites for the dead, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper as a cop reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She has done little since. Her husband is the night editor at The Denver Post. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live. She is the author of, Good Cop, Dead Cop: A Novel about the AfterNet. She’s writing the sequel, The Background Noise of Souls, and another AfterNet related story, Jane Austen’s Book Tour.

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