While Twitter is going where the trends are taking it, the discontinuation of the apps won't be without hitches: the apps rely on v1.0 of Twitter's API, which is retiring starting in April.Īs the retirement draws near and tests take place, all three TweetDeck apps may experiences outages before they're finally shuttered. To discover loads more about the infinite possibilities of the GALAXY Note II This trend coincides with an increased investment in Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android.' 'Over the past few years, we've seen a steady trend towards people using TweetDeck on their computers and Twitter on their mobile devices. 'In many ways, doubling down on the TweetDeck web experience and discontinuing our app support is a reflection of where our TweetDeck power-users are going,' the announcement concerning the change read. The app for Chrome features notifications, the tweet team pointed out. TweetDeck will continue on as a 'fast and feature-rich' web app for various browsers as well as a Chrome app.

The apps will say sayonara to their respective app stores in early May and will slip silently into the abyss of non-functionality shortly after.

The news may rattle users who've grown accustomed to sending and reading tweets from the various applications, but it's not such a surprise to those who've noticed it's been years since they've been updated - which is probably everybody.

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