Ever since Twitter unveiled its first Twitter-branded version of TweetDeck, there have been complaints about the Twitter dashboard’s stability and overall performance. Now Twitter is finally rolling out TweetDeck 1.1 for the desktop, as well as an update to the Web-based Chrome version.
There is some irony in TweetDeck’s 1.1 status. The original TweetDeck, which was around for a few years, never hit version 1 status before Twitter acquired the third-party Twitter tool in May. Now, just a couple of weeks after finally graduating from beta to finished app, TweetDeck is already at “point-one” status.
TweetDeck 1.1 looks just like version 1.0. That’s because this update delivers exactly zero feature enhancements. All the changes are all under the hood, which may dissapoint some who were hoping for the reinstatement of some missing features. I wish that right-clicking virtually anywhere on the app still worked. Sadly, even in TweetDeck 1.1, it still does not.
In use, this update is far more stable than TweetDeck 1.0, which crashed so often — even while I was trying to craft a Tweet — that I finally gave up and reverted to the Adobe Air version, which never crashed. All versions of TweetDeck are now built around HTML 5 and I had heard similar complaints from those using TweetDeck in Chrome. This update should solve their issues as well.
Installing the desktop version is a painless process, but you do have to uninstall version 1.0 first. Once that’s done, installation takes less than a minute and all your settings from the previous install should still be in place.
If you’re a TweetDeck user, I suggest you grab this update today. Then let me know in the comments how it works for you. If you discover any new bugs, report them and we’ll report them back to Twitter.
Since none of the features have changed, here’s another look at TweetDeck 1.0's (and 1.1's) feature highlights
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