CNET Editors' review
TweetDeck for Mac now ships with a brand-new, well-designed user interface and a Twitter-for-Mac-like look, and it has multiple additional features that power users will love. By switching to HTML5, the developers have eliminated the need to continuously update Adobe Air, and now users can enjoy a neat app for reading, tweeting, and searching for specific topics of interest.
We liked how simple to use TweetDeck is. As soon as you set up your Twitter (or Facebook) account, you are off. While Twitter for Mac does a very good job for everyday use, it can't compete with this app's multi-column view, which can even schedule tweets, a very useful feature for better time management. TweetDeck is the app bloggers will love to use: it provides a clear, intuitive interface with easy-to-understand, visible controls to manage the information streams coming in, especially for users who follow thousands of people in the twitter sphere. Also, we liked how TweetDeck can track a topic of interest and display all the tweets that contain that specified query in a column, which, by the way, can be positioned at will. TweetDeck preserved the basic Twitter controls such as mentions and direct messages, and just renamed the columns to @Me and Inbox, for better understanding. Furthermore, just like the original Twitter for Mac, the app handles multiple accounts with ease. A feature we loved was the sound notification: when users search for a specific topic, they can get sound notifications each time someone mentions the query, which is useful, as you don't spend all day reading the twitter feed.
Overall, we liked TweetDeck's performance: it's stable, and the big window gives its users plenty of space to place as many columns as they like, so as to always be up-to-date with what is trending on Twitter. This app is surely a very useful tool for bloggers, and is packed in a sleek design and boosted with all the features a power user needs.
Publisher's Description
From Twitter:
TweetDeck makes it easier for publishers, marketers and power users to track the real-time conversations they care about. It brings more flexibility and insight to power users through a customizable layout that lets you keep up with the people and topics that matter most to you. And, you can join the conversation by tweeting, sharing photos and links to news stories, and more.
What's new in this version:
- Support for Twitter photo and player cards
- Edit search column query in column options
- 'n' on keyboard opens new Tweet
- 'Cmd+Enter' sends Tweet
- Fix profiles not loading under certain circumstances
- Various fixes for retina displays
- Over 70 other fixes and improvements
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"What's not to love?"
Version: TweetDeck 0.37.5
Pros
Simple to use - I don't understand why someone wouldn't like Adobe Air? Just doesn't make sense to me.
Cons
None - I don't see anything wrong. It works perfectly.
Summary
It's a wonderful program.
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"Adobe AIR ist a "no go" for me"
Version: TweetDeck 0.35.1
Pros
No pros: I dropped my interest because of Adobe AIR
Cons
The download doesn't work until you have install Adobe AIR
Summary
I really would like to try TweetDeck, but for me Adobe AIR was the reason that stopped further steps directly. Today, Adobe is one of the biggest bloatware manufacturer for me and my decision is, that I won't use any Software which based on AIR, respectively on Flash. I hope the developer switch to an other devoloper tool. Sorry.
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"Ugg"
Version: TweetDeck 0.33.4
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
No font controls? Fuzzy looking Adobe Air ware. I personally found it had a lot of cool features, but the interface is hideous and let's not talk about accessibility. Air stuff runs poorly on os x. Steve is right. -
"Nice Interface!!!"
Version: TweetDeck 0.33
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
It works quite well and has no bugs so far. I've been using it for 3 weeks now.

















