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Review: TweetDeck desktop Twitter client

Tweet­Deck is arguably one of the most pop­u­lar desk­top Twit­ter clients cur­rently avail­able.  With the num­ber of fea­tures avail­able in Tweet­Deck, there is a lit­tle bit of some­thing for everyone.

Per­haps that is the prob­lem. In my opin­ion, TweetDeck’s user-interface appears to be a work-in-progress wait­ing to progress as new fea­tures are devel­oped instead.  Recent updates haven’t done much to improve the inter­face, and it cer­tainly could use some love.  The tiny but­tons which are the key to most of TweetDeck’s fea­tures look a bit out of place, and the default color scheme is as dark and gloomy as the Tweet­Deck web­site.  While you can change the color scheme in the set­tings win­dow, the default col­ors are not my idea of a good first impression.

I would need to see major improve­ment to the Tweet­Deck user-interface before I would feel com­fort­able rec­om­mend­ing it.  I believe that Twit­ter appli­ca­tions should be sim­ple and easy to use, much like Twit­ter itself.  Though Tweet­Deck isn’t the most dif­fi­cult soft­ware to nav­i­gate, the user inter­face is not very intuitive.

The over­all func­tion­al­ity of Tweet­Deck is accept­able, I haven’t had any major issues aside from the UI design (and this: Hid­den Tweet­Deck Ad Injected Into Blog).  And I do like that you can choose whether the Tweet noti­fi­ca­tions appear at the top or bot­tom of the screen, as I use a noti­fier for my email accounts which dis­plays in far right of the browser sta­tus bar, and hav­ing TweetScoop inte­grated with Tweet­Deck is a nice touch.  Tweet­Deck can be used with your Face­book account as well.

At this time, I will be stick­ing with Seesmic.  My opin­ion is that Tweet­Deck is sim­ply not as user-friendly as Seesmic, and it lacks the same level of polish.

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