TweetDeck the client app for social networks that was acquired by the company Twitter in 2011 it will stop supporting users of iOS y Android disappearing, at the same time, from their respective app stores on May 7. We already knew that this would end up happening, but we needed to know when it would take effect. The social network tries, with this movement, to direct users towards its native application.
As they say out there, the disappearance of TweetDeck it is the chronicle of an announced death, as the title of GarcÃa Márquez's novel said. Since mid-2011 Twitter bought the client application of his social network, many of them smelled that the transaction simply sought to use the functions and resources to integrate them into the native app, with the aim of improving it, and we already know that many times the most interesting services they do not have to come from the via official.
The transaction was carried out, as we say, a couple of years ago for about 30 million euros and gave control to Twitter on one of the most powerful tools used to manage your social network profiles. Although it might seem crazy that, after so brutal disbursement, on Twitter they got rid of the product, the question is not without its logic, since what is sought is to concentrate all the experience of the network in your own app.
Now that TweetDeck closes, Twitter justifies it by saying that users prefer the official service and, for that reason, they see the need to terminate the client. Still, the versión web and the extension for Chrome they will remain active for the time being.
Until May 7, we will be able to continue using the fabulous Twitter client, however, after its closure, we will still have interesting alternatives to the official application that will allow us to manage our accounts on social networks: Hootsuite, Carbon, Plume o seesmic are some of the best known. On this post we picked up some of them.
What do you think of the news? Will you go to the official application or you will look for one alternative among customers to replace TweetDeck?
Source: TechCrunch.