Years ago, the official Twitter app was so simple that everyone I know ended up using other options. Among those options was Tweetdeck, an app / web service that allowed us to do more things than the official proposal. Twitter began to improve its service and, it must be said, it also began to hinder third-party developers, who have not been able to include the latest and best options offered by the microblogging network in their apps.
Twitter ended up buying Tweetdeck, which resulted in its desktop app disappearing and few or no updates arriving. But it seems that Twitter is interested in that Tweetdeck users continue to be happy using this web service, so they have updated it to introduce some options with which, once the tests are done, you can no longer live without them: polls, GIFs, emojis, and threads, all of them available from the composition of the tweet.
Tweetdeck inherits tweet composition from Twitter
As you can see in the previous image, the update of the Tweetdeck web service is basically that have changed the composition of the tweet to be exactly the same as the mobile version of Twitter. There is only one problem, as you can see in the previous composer, before it allowed us to schedule a tweet, an option that has disappeared in the new version of the composer. The good thing is that, at least right now, there is an option that allows us to go back to the previous version ("Switch back to the old composer"), but we don't know if this will always be the case or they will eliminate it in the future.
The new option was announced by the official Tweetdeck account, guess where ?, on Twitter. Right now it is in testing, as you can read in the tweet posted yesterday. Taking this into account, everything seems to indicate that, when the tests are finished, you will not be able to return to the previous composer, which could mean that tweets can no longer be scheduled.
If we could wave a magic wand, what functionality would you most like to see added to TweetDeck?
- TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) May 15, 2019
What they are also testing is that the modern web version, at least on mobiles and tablets, allows us to add more accounts, up to 5 to be exact. Twitter is always experimenting and not all changes are good, but I think those mentioned in this article are, and more so for Linux users who do not stop looking for good options without success. What do you think?
