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Elon Musk's X Completes TweetDeck's Transition To A Paid Service, Prompting Comparisons With Meta's Free Offerings
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 12:49am | 670TweetDeck, a web application that can load several columns simultaneously, will no longer be available for free as Elon Musk’s X enforces a paywall. What Happened: Long cherished for its ability to manage multiple columns of content, TweetDeck had been a...
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Elon Musk's Twitter Hit By Partial Outage As Follow Function, Tweetdeck Bugs Annoy Users
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - 11:29pm | 663Twitter was hit by a partial outage late on Wednesday that limited users’ ability to send tweets and follow new accounts, as well as other bugs. What Happened: The company’s official support page acknowledged the glitches, without specifying the causes, and said it was “...
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Twitter Says Bye, Bye To TweetDeck: 4 Alternatives For Mac Users
Thursday, June 2, 2022 - 4:42am | 518Twitter Inc’s (NASDAQ: TWTR) said it is saying “goodbye” to its TweetDeck app for Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) computers beginning July 1. Mac users left in the lurch still have some options at their disposal. See Also: How To Buy Twitter (TWTR) Shares TweetDeck On Web: TweetDeck...
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Investors: Should Twitter Push More Sponsored Tweets Through TweetDeck?
Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 3:10pm | 483TweetDeck is a dashboard that curates content from Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) and other social media sites. The application, released in 2008, remained independent until Twitter acquired the platform in 2011 for $40 million. Unfortunately for the Internet, TweetDeck was down for several hours on...
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TweetDeck Hack Causes Retweet Headaches All Over Twitter
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 2:23pm | 481TweetDeck, Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) real-time tracking, organizing and engagement tool, might have been hacked. Users were originally told to log out of TweetDeck and log back in to "fully apply the fix" that Twitter believed it had implemented. Minutes later, TweetDeck published another tweet,...
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Twitter Enforces 140 Character Limit, Kills Off Deck.ly
Friday, September 16, 2011 - 11:43am | 108If you want to write longer message, stick with Facebook. That's the message Twitter is sending today with the announcement that TweetDeck will no longer support Deck.ly, a feature that allowed users to write longer messages. According to Mediabistro, Twitter announced Deck.ly's demise with a...
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Tech M&A: Blackboard Goes Private, eBay Goes Deeper on Mobile, and Twitter Eats Its Young Again
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 12:18pm | 1122By Damian Thompson An education software player privatizes, a payments behemoth gets bigger, and a social network player gains influence. Blackboard Graduates to the Middle of the Class? Blackboard Inc (NASDAQ: BBBB) announced today that it has agreed to be acquired by a group of investors lead...
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TweetDeck: From Tiny Startup to Twitter Acquisition
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 2:25pm | 369It wasn't that long ago that TweetDeck was simply a small startup with big dreams. But in the years following its initial release in the summer of 2008, TweetDeck quickly became one of the premiere desktop applications for Twitter. Today, the company's founder and CEO, Iain Dodsworth, blogged...
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Tweet Longer With Deck.ly
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 3:30pm | 253If you've been itching to tweet a little longer than Twitter's 140 character limit, Tweetdeck has the answer: Deck.ly. Iain Dodsworth, the founder and CEO of Tweetdeck, is hyping the new feature, which he says fans have been very vocal about in their demands. Built for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chrome...
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New Twitter Security Flaw!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 10:06am | 156There's a new security flaw in Twitter's neighborhood, and it is being widely exploited, according to USA Today. What is happening on thousands of Twitter accounts is that users are getting redirected to third-party websites without giving consent, meaning pop-ups and websites can even be opened...