Twitter Updates TweetDeck and Now its Finally free of Air!

18 Flares 18 Flares ×
TweetDeck Standalone Installer

TweetDeck Standalone Installer

If you are a Twitter fan, then most probably, you’ll be using TweetDeck to keep tweeting. Earlier, we had to install Adobe Air in order to run TweetDeck because its built on Air. Recently, Twitter bought TweetDeck and made it the official Twitter Desktop client. So, while re-designing their site, they have also decided to change things in TweetDeck.

I think you already know that Twitter is rolling out a brand new design. A more simple home page and more cool stuff for tweeting. This redesign is not limited for the site. They have also released new Android and iPhone apps and have also updated TweetDeck.

As I said earlier, now TweetDeck don’t need Air. If you go to their site, now you’ll be able do download separate installer packages for Windows and Mac. Now, it can be installed just like any other standalone software. But there’s one problem… Where’s the Linux version? I think the Linux users have to wait or they can use the Chrome App. Ah wait a minute, there’s wine! I just tried it with Wine and it worked perfectly. Loaded faster than in Windows!

Earlier, TweetDeck’s main color is yellow. In the black interface, most of the buttons and the logos were yellow. But now, since its owned by Twitter, they have changed yellow to the blue color used in Twitter.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck

I don’t know whether you’ll like this or not but the new TweetDeck doesn’t have the tweeting section at the top. If you need to Tweet, you need to click on the blue icon with a small quill at the top. On the plus side, it give more room for the columns.

Tweet

Tweet

That’s not all… There are some more tiny changes in this new version. You better download it and try it out before leaving any comments!

Tags: , ,

This awesome post was written by Pubudu Kodikara

Pubudu has written 1036 great articles for us.

Currently, I'm preparing a delicious meal... I take ingredients from the tech world... I have already used 2 tea spoons of software, 3 table spoons of network, a cup of linux, a jug of web and many more tasty ingredients!
  • turdsamich

    not sure what, if anything I am doing wrong but when I run the new tweetdeck through wine the font rendering is horrible.   I came across your post while searching for a fix

  • Stevegmag

    Happy it no longer uses Air and hopefully will be more stable…  HOWEVER, Facebook integration is missing all the actions that used to be present.  Can’t connect to LinkedIn (or haven’t figured it out)?  Is there no Growl or Growl-like support anymore?