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TweetDeck update removes Deck.ly posting
By Jesse Hollington
Applications Editor, iLounge (Google+)
Published: Thursday, September 15, 2011
News Category: iPad, iPhone, Apps + Games
TweetDeck has released an update to its iPhone app removing support for its Deck.ly extended posting service. Redesigned and released earlier this year as an entirely new app, TweetDeck for the iPhone and iPod touch incorporated its own tweet shortening service known as Deck.ly that allows users to write tweets longer than 140 characters, posting as many characters as possible within the tweet followed by a link to an online page to display the full length of the tweet.
At the time that the new app was released, TweetDeck also promised that a similar iPad update would be coming. However, shortly after this the company was acquired by Twitter and despite claims that the company would continue to provide “the same focus and products” all references to the iPad app were removed from the company’s web site. There have been few TweetDeck updates since the acquisition, and this latest update appears to have been released primarily to remove Deck.ly support “as part of the process of making TweetDeck more consistent with Twitter.com & Twitter’s mobile apps.” TweetDeck for the iPhone and iPod touch is available from the App Store as a free download.
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tweetdeck sucks now. And their Facebook integration doesn’t change main facebook pictures. Whatever people had as a main picture in APRIL is still their main picture in SEPTEMBER
Posted by God on September 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM (PDT)