Comments on: What’s wrong with Tweetdeck

By: Rowan

Rowan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:30:54 +0000

Spot on about the notifications. I’ve just connverted to TweetDeck from Twhirl. It’s excellent, but the notification system is crap!

I have to open TweetDeck every time to see what’s been tweeted, where as in Twhirl I can have a glance at the notification for info of who tweeted and what.

By: Swizec

Swizec — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:30:17 +0000

Heh yes, it’s http://twitulater.com

Give it a try and see if it suits your needs, but it’s been in development for much less time than TweetDeck has and there’s still a lot to do.

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:27:11 +0000

@swizec your twitter client sounds good, you should post a link to it.

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:26:37 +0000

Another thing that drives me nuts is that fact that when you try and @ reply someone the auto suggest (which is great) only appends the user name to the end of the tweet and not at the cursor position.

By: Swizec

Swizec — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:20:43 +0000

Thanks, this has been a great learning experience for me as a developer of a tweetdeck killer (Twitulater). In fact, most of your reservations are already implemented

Great idea with the resizable columns.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:42:34 +0000

I agree, I love TweetDeck and use it everyday. Everything you mentioned above drives me NUTS! Especially the fact that the columns are not resizable.

And one more thing. On one of my machines TweetDeck is the only app that does not recognize my mouse scroll wheel. How frustrating!

@Dugrhill

By: Grzegorz Balnis

Grzegorz Balnis — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:36:31 +0000

C’mon, TweetDeck has been developed by one man – pretty outstanding job given the circumstances. 250k downloads. Not that it can’t be improved, great hints there. Reportedly TweetDeck has now secured $300k funding so I’m expecting some improvements will be coming shortly.

By: Richard Barley

Richard Barley — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:36:11 +0000

Hi there,
All good valid points in this article. Did you know there is a Uservoice site for Tweetdeck where you can raise issues like these and vote to get them implemented. http://tweetdeck.uservoice.com if you’re interested.
Thanks!
Richard

By: James Marshall

James Marshall — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:15:29 +0000

I agree with all of the previous comments! TweetDeck is by far my favourite application for interfacing with Twitter, but it has so many flaws!

I too was amazed to discover its memory usage; I don’t care if it is the Air framework, 100+MB is too much for what is essentially a background service.

I’ve got two monitors on my system (1×24″, 1×22″) and TweetDeck still refuses to utilise the space properly either leaving me with too much spare, or just not enough that I have to scroll left and right.

I think it’s a great starting point, really great, but it needs a strong feedback system to improve it further otherwise someone’s going to make something that is better.

By: daniel

daniel — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:29:34 +0000

@Matt i totally agree, the memory usage on tweetdeck is horrible, it’s worst than firefox.