TweetDeck

So we just launched our awesome new Deck.ly service, allowing you to send messages of unlimited length to Twitter, should you so desire. You'd think that was enough awesomeness for now wouldn't you?

Well think again, TweetDeck fans!

Not only did we add Deck.ly support, but we also added a selection of other features and fixes across our Chrome, Desktop and Android apps too.

The full changelogs are all available here, but lets take a quick look at some of the highlights...

Chrome

Image previews in the app

We now provide an in-app preview for a host of major image and video services, including YFrog, Twitpic, Instagram & Youtube. When you click to open a supported media type, the image or video will open in a preview window inside the app. You can click to view the media on the host site, as well as "share" the link, which drops the URL into the compose box for you.

Access Comments from Facebook Notifications

You can now view and add comments on Facebook updates direct from the notification in your Me (and "Notifications") column. When you get a new Facebook notification update, eg "Fred just liked your post", you can now click the comment button and you will be taken to the comment thread for the item in question.

Translated into 11 languages

Chrome TweetDeck will now match your system language for those using: English UK, Brazilian Portugese, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese & Spanish. There is no language setting in TweetDeck itself, it will just utilise the system language set by your operating system.

Better layout of Facebook attachments

Facebook news feed updates that contain attached links are now much clearer. The link is highlighted with a special icon so distinguish it from the message itself.

Desktop

In-app previews for Instagram images

Hipsters of the world can finally see their favourite 1970's style photos shown in all their glory in an in-app preview preview window.

Some tweaks and touch-ups

Including important fixes for issues with the Facebook authentication page & Twitter List updates.

Android

A few fancy fixes

Including:

• Scrolling under Honeycomb
• Previewing Intragr.am links containing _
• Use the correct account when replying

Look out for lots more updates coming over the next weeks and months, especially on Chrome and Android.

And of course, our fantastic brand-spanking-new, iOS4-compatible app is getting closer to completion and we expect to have more news for you on that very soon.

Watch this space!

It's been a little over a month since we launched Android TweetDeck 1.0. Thanks to a great beta period we were able to deliver a really solid first version of the app. Use cases had been polished out, bugs fixed, but still, there's always more to be done.

Today we're releasing Android TweetDeck 1.0.3 to the market with many of the features we've heard most requested since launch. Included is the ability to manually shorten URLs, change the photo service to Twitpic and more complete support for landscape mode.

Change log for 1.0.3:

• Landscape mode for all update detail views
• Added support for Twitpic
• Manual bit.ly shortening
• Allow for dismissing Places notification
• Fix faving tweets on 3g in France
• Allow old style RTs for protected users
• Support FB Single Sign On
• Allow users to delete DMs that are sent to them
• Likes and comments on FB photos should stay in app
• Several bug fixes and performance improvements

1.0.3 is rolling out to the Android Market now and should be available for everyone running Android 1.6+.

While we think this is the best version of Android TweetDeck yet, it is by no means slowing down in development. High on the priority list is user name auto-complete, ability to upload video, native Facebook image posting and better widgets. 

If you're interested in helping us beta test new versions, need help or want to send feedback, please make sure to follow @deckondroid. 

It's been a crazy couple months here at TweetDeck. We announced our public beta of Android TweetDeck on August 12th and since then we've done 11 releases, crushed millions of bugs and listened to a tonne of feedback. Today we're ready to officially launch our Android app and make it available to everyone via the Android Market.

To download the app search the market for "TweetDeck" or click this link from your phone: Android Market (note: beta testers, please uninstall your beta version before downloading 1.0).

For those of you who haven't had the chance to test the beta, Android TweetDeck is a completely reworked UI for managing your social media empire. With the app you can view and post to Twitter, Facebook,Foursquare and Buzz. We've tried to innovate as much as possible to deliver a smooth, clean experience while offering more power than any other social mobile client. Updates from all services are viewable in blended Home and Me columns so you can easily keep up-to-date without a lot of jumping around. We've also strived to take what has made TweetDeck a great Twitter client and provide that level of support to the other services. Here's a quick video rundown of app functionality:

Android TweetDeck 1.0 is just the beginning of our new wave of mobile products. We're looking forward to continuing development by better supporting landscape mode, adding deeper Facebook integration, better multiple account support and lots more.

Additionally, we've started developing the new version of TweetDeck for iPhone and iPad. We're modeling the app on the Android version, doing everything from scratch and not holding anything back. Those TweetDeck team members with iPhones are pretty amped about the new stuff. Stay tuned for updates on progress. 

We'd like to thank our beta testers (all 36,000 of you!) and invite you to follow @deckondroid to stay on the bleeding edge. It's pretty cool that Android lets us distribute the app outside of the market as it makes testing so much easier. Please follow that account to find out about new test apks and the latest on pre-market releases.

Finally, we thought it would be a cool bonus to provide @fstid's awesome angry android image as a wallpaper for your Android phones. You can grab it from here. Enjoy!

As we bring our initial Android TweetDeck beta period to a close, we wanted to quickly reflect on the Android ecosystem and what might be considered extreme fragmentation. To date we've had 36,427 active beta testers and below you can see the massive variety of phones and Android OS versions everyone is running. We were really shocked to see the number of custom roms, crazy phones and general level of customization/hackalicious nature of Android. From our perspective it's pretty cool to have our app work on such a wide variety of devices and Android OS variations.

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It seems like just yesterday we were using our top secret Android TweetDeck, sending mysterious test tweets and working everything into shape for a public release. Actually, it was about a week ago. Last Thursday we unleashed the first public beta of Android Tweetdeck and braced ourselves for impact. 

Things went crazy straight from the get go. An older test build somehow made its way into the wild and started a worldwide warez-tastic tour with Android early adopters. It was interesting to say the least but not quite what we were expecting. Thankfully we were planning on releasing the REAL beta the next day so the damage was minimal. It was even kind of cool to see people's early reactions (although they were picking up on some rough edges we had already polished out.)

The actual proper release went off like gangbusters. We gave out a few early copies to bloggers who were really enthusiastic about our entirely new interface. We setup our emailer to send out the first version and were slammed with 20,000 requests within a few hours. Then we sat back in the pub and eagerly watched for your reaction.

We were really happy with what we heard. For the most part everyone understood that this was the first version and there was a lot more to do. The feedback was great and fit with what we were planning to fix up, and the positive reactions got us all super excited :)

Fast forward to today. We're releasing our fourth version of the beta, fixing more bugs, incorporating more of your feedback and not slowing down a bit. Even though we haven't officially released the app yet, TweetDeck Android is generating more tweets and status updates than our 3 month old iPad app.

Today's build includes a brand new column setting page. We started working in refresh settings in the last build but this really polishes everything. You can now set individual columns with notifications, led flashing, sound and vibrate (or any combination thereof). You'll also be able to set the refresh rate per column and delete the column from this page. 

We're also starting to hook deeper into Android. We've included a share "intent" so you can send images, links and other content into TweetDeck. You'll now see TweetDeck listed when you click share in most Android apps (Gallery for instance).

This build also has support for bit.ly. If you share a link from the browser, the url will be shortened in the compose window. This is rev 1 of this integration, so expect enhancements in future builds.

You can download the new version here.

If you missed out on earlier builds here's a quick list of things we've added:

• font resizing (boy did some you want this :)
• heavy data usage optimizations
• support for more phones
• bug fixes
• lots of polish

It's really great to be developing this app in such short iterations cycles with so much feedback from our users. We're listening so keep up help!

Just to keep up the visibility on our end here are SOME of the features we'll be adding in upcoming builds as we approach 1.0 launch:

• widget
• 1.6 support
• video upload
• better support for multiple twitter accounts
• native service columns (Facebook, Buzz and Foursquare)

Also, we've had some issues with rogue entities uploading fake (or pirated) copies of our app to the official Google Android Market. We HAVEN'T released our app to the market yet, so if you see a TweetDeck in there it's fake! We're working with Google to fix this issue, but in the meantime steer clear and make sure you get your apks directly from us.

We thought it would be fun to recap some of reactions to the release from the past week. Here are some highlights:

http://gigaom.com/2010/08/14/android-this-week-tweetdeck-dell-streak-voice-actions/

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/08/11/tweetdeck-for-android-our-first-look-and-impressions/

http://androidandme.com/2010/08/applications/first-impressions-of-the-newly-minted-tweetdeck-beta/

http://www.droid-life.com/2010/08/13/review-tweetdeck-open-beta/

Finally, just a quick introduction as this is my first blog post. My name is Toby and I've been helping TweetDeck from the Betaworks office in NY. Good to meet you all and I'm sure we'll be talking soon :)

You begged. You pleaded. You offered us all manner of enticements, some of which we think may be illegal in some countries. We took this to mean that you really wanted TweetDeck on your Android device, and we agreed!

So without any further ado, we are delighted to announce that a beta version of our Android app is now officially available!

In order to receive the beta, you must visit http://www.tweetdeck.com/api/android_whitelist/ and sign in with your TweetDeck account. We will then email you further instructions and a link to download the app.

Don’t forget, even though we’ve worked really hard to make this a truly amazing app for you, it is a “beta” application. This means there may still be some kinks to iron out and more improvements will come along before we reach a full-blown launch.

So why is our Android app so different to what you have seen before?
Well, for starters, we have not just taken the well-trodden path of pulling together some basic screens and calling it an app. TweetDeck has been totally built from the ground up with a new approach. It’s still TweetDeck, with a column-based layout as you’d expect, but we have pushed the boundaries of what you should expect from an app in several ways:

Blended columns

The concept of blended columns is something new and different, but we feel that it is the way forward. Why should you have to scan across multiple columns to find out what your friends are doing? Bringing all your Twitter, Facebook, Buzz and Foursquare feeds into the same column allows you to focus more on what your friends are saying and less on where they are saying it.

The exciting new “me” column gives you an unparallelled view of how your friends are interacting with you by bringing together your Twitter mentions and likes and comments from both Facebook and Google Buzz.

Smooth, slick UI

We were determined that scrolling through your updates and columns in TweetDeck should be a joy, and we think we’ve achieved that. We optimised everything for a mobile display by trimming out anything that wasn't really necessary and focusing on making the key functions work like magic.

Logging in using your TweetDeck account is effortless. Updates scroll up and down with silky-smoothness, and “infinite scroll” means that you can keep gliding back in time to your heart’s content. Tapping the column header springs you back to the top. The update clock in the header lets you know where you are in your timeline without cluttering each update. Yellow indicators that subtly alert you to unread updates. Lots of little details that make the simple things a pleasure.

Key features at your fingertips

For each service, we wanted to make sure you had the most common features available at your fingertips. So for Twitter updates you can reply, retweet and favourite with the touch of an icon. You can comment on, and “Like”, a Facebook or Buzz update. From a Foursquare update you can check in, send a shout, leave a tip, or launch the map mode to explore check-ins and venues in the area.

Update detail views also include image and video previews, and geotagged updates include a map, so you’ll always have fast access to the cool content that your friends are sharing, without the pain of multiple clicks. Stop fumbling around with multiple apps and just breeze through your day with TweetDeck in your pocket.

Clever composing

The compose window has also been designed to be stylish yet powerful. If you just want to fire off your first  “OMG I SO love Justin Bieber” update of the day, then you have a clean & simple compose box. Toggle any of your accounts as desired and TweetDeck will send your update in the background, notifying you via the Android notification bar of the progress.

For the full “Here’s me when I met Justin at NYC” experience, tucked away behind the keyboard are the advanced features, where images and location information can be included.

Quick access to your favourite friends

We know that many of you spend a lot of time speaking to the same group of friends, and TweetDeck allow you to put these friends within easy reach via the contacts button.
This opens up a grid of 12 “slots” where you can store the profiles of any of your friends, from any of the services. From there you can explore their profiles and add columns for their various feeds.

Oh and a quick note about compatibility. Because of all the magic we have had to pack into this app, the beta version has been optimised for Android v2.0 and over for now. However we will work hard to ensure that we support v1.6 and over by the time of the full launch.

As we announced last week, this app not only represents an exciting new departure for us and for Android apps in general, but it also forms the basis of the future of TweetDeck apps moving forward. So please try the app and give us your feedback in our dedicated forum. We want to make this the best app you have ever used and with your help and ideas we think it will happen.

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