TweetDeck is a solid tool for Twitter Pro users, especially those working in the field of journalism. Through it, you can arrange multiple views side by side to keep up to date with all the topics of interest. Regular users don’t really need the app, and most of them probably aren’t aware of it. However, the app means a lot to many of its active users. After all, it makes our (digital) lives so much easier compared to the normal use of Twitter during time-consuming events. Today, we have some bad news for TweetDeck fans. The company will kill the macOS app on July 1, in exactly one month.
We say goodbye to TweetDeck for the Mac app to focus on further improving TweetDeck and testing our new preview. July 1 is the last day it will be available.
You can still use TweetDeck on the web and more invitations to try the preview will be posted in the coming months!
– TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) June 1, 2022
Twitter announced through its TweetDeck account that it will kill the Mac app next month. The company mentions that those interested in using the service should switch to the web version. Now, that doesn’t sound so bad, does it? Wait for the turn.
Twitter has been working on a new version of TweetDeck with a limited number of users: TweetDeck Preview. The company is likely to withdraw the legacy web version after launching the revised preview to the masses. Many of the original TweetDeck fans don’t like the new preview version, as they say that its user interface is not that good. Unfortunately, we still haven’t gotten the real bad news.
Twitter is working to refer @TweetDeck to the @TwitterBlue feature list
This is another indication that TweetDeck could become a payment feature for the subscription service pic.twitter.com/ciZ2vdBCkT
– jane (@wongmjane) March 22, 2022
According to a tweet from Jane Wong dating back to March, Twitter may be working under the hood to pay for the web version of TweetDeck. If the company has actually made the decision to bundle it with Twitter Blue, TweetDeck web users may be forced to abandon the feature altogether or start paying for it. Personally, I think the payment wall will be up and running once the preview version is released for all users. That’s because it’s still a beta product right now and Twitter needs to refine it before selling it.
Would you pay for Twitter Blue to access TweetDeck on the web? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments section below.