TweetDeck v0.21 is here - Merry Christmas!

TweetDeck v0.21 is now available and contains quite a few new elements of functionality and two very important bug fixes which have been effecting the update of #searches and tweets being dropped from the All Friends column. The "big ticket" items in this update include a spell checker, your sent DMs show in the DM column, option to have narrower columns, the introduction of TweetDeck Services (more on that in a future post) and the integration of TweetShrink into the tweet panel.

This version is also the first version which requires AIR 1.5 - which may present the odd issue for Linux users. Please see here for tips on how to upgrade to AIR for Linux 1.5 so that TweetDeck will keep working Tips on resolving application issues for Linux Users & Adobe Air for Linux Delivers (if you can get it installed)

Your TweetDeck will auto-update to v0.21 within the next few hours or, if you can't wait, you can manually download it from the tweetdeck.com homepage.

Here are the v0.21 updates in full:

Added spell checker
Added sent DMs to DM column
Added "narrow columns" preference
Added confirm box when closing a column
Added TweetShrink functionality to tweet panel
Fixed bug with missing tweets from All Tweets feed in between your own posts
Fixed #searches not updating properly
Updated interface to make it slimmer, reduced some UI spacing
Added tweet actions now cause tweet to be marked as seen
Added logic to auto-add http:// where necessary to urls to be shortened
Added double-check so reply column tweet must contain @username
Added "unknow" message to profiles where returned data is incomplete
Updated "mark as read" to "mark as seen"
Updated saving of window size & position and url shortener code
Updated logout button location
Updated "All Tweets" to more accurate "All Friends" column name
Updated 12seconds video to be more in line with tweet UI
Fixed hanging when deleting tweet
Fixed bug so edited group names update straight away
Fixed hanging when marking as read
Fixed bug where a cleared column now updates with just new tweets
Fixed bug with DM counter
Removed auto-update of favorites column
Removed cross column marking as read - performance issue, temporary measure
Removed cross column deleting - performance issue, temporary measure

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!

Dec 24, 2008

Dan Monsieurle said...

merry christmas! thanks very much for this!

IsaiahC said...

Thank you for the hard work! Loving it.

Merry Christmas!

Grant Griffiths said...

Another great update to an already outstanding application. Thank you so much.

Ken Burbary said...

Thanks for this new version. Tweetdeck is the #1 twitter tool!

Anthony Valley said...

Thanks for the time and effort invested in getting this version to your awaiting public. I appreciate it. Great work as always.

Roxy said...

Lovin' Tweetdeck! Been using it all week. Except I made a special group which didn't save. Hmm...

Bill L said...

These are great fixes and new features. The only thing really keeping me from using it is support to have multiple accounts open at one time so I can have my work and personal twitter on my screen without logging out.

Ruthe said...

thanks! I'm a new TweetDeck fan and use it along side twhirl. I'd like to make TweetDeck my ONLY twitter app but like Bill L I need support for multiple accounts. Please add this feature :D

Barry Rabkin said...

Question: How do I add people to existing groups?
Thanks, Barry

Tris Hussey said...

TweetDeck services ... now that has my interest peaked.

Dylan Boyd said...

Are you ever going to add that bottom 48 hr tweet feature? That kept me from missing tweets or rolling back to find them. Thanks

Bill said...

I don't understand the warning to close a column. It's worded to sound very dangerous, but I can open the column again with no problem.

Swizec said...

As an avid developer, I was just wondering what you use to create such fine grained changelogs? They're really the first thing that made me start using tweetdeck a few months ago because it's so nice to know what's happening with applications we use, rather than always having to hunt for changes and seeing if they're any good.

Dec 25, 2008

Holly said...

I am loving tweetdeck. I do hope that you receive enough donations to keep up the great work.

John McElhenney said...

Tweetdeck update crashes every time I try and run it. And I have not be successful in downloading the .air file and associating it with AIR. .20b works fine. Hmmm.

Dec 27, 2008

seo help said...

sweet deal lol :)

Dec 28, 2008

tweetdeck said...

Bill / Ruthe - multi-account support is in development right now so shouldn't be too long

Barry - click on the groups title (at the top of the column) to edit the group members

Dylan - I can look into adding that in if there's sufficient demand for it over at http://tweetdeck.uservoice.com

Bill - it's more a feature to stop you removing columns when you didn't intend to

Swizec - I just make a note of each change made as it's complete, no changelog software :-)

Holly - so do I :-)

jmacofearth - send me your email and I'll email you the air file directly, might do the trick (hello at tweetdeck dot com)

Janie Angus said...

I changed my Twitter handle. Now Twitter Status is "Not Authorized." How do I reset my Twitter account within TweetDeck. I've searched. Can't find it.

Janie - click on the exclamation mark icon top right which will clear the stored username and password. The app will close and then the next time you open it you'll see a login form where you can enter your new username/password

THANK YOU! Iain, you were writing this as I was sending you email, so please ignore the email. I thought the exclamation point was to 'Log Out and exit TD'. Guess my understanding of that is not clear enuf, because I did not presume that it would include acct prefs.

Anyway, a million thank you's.

Awesome! I can't wait. :D

Chris said...

Thanks for the updates. I really appreciate the narrow columns setting.

Question: Is there a way to show DMs and @replies in the normal stream, instead of having to have their dedicated columns showing?

Dec 29, 2008

Brian Baulch said...

Great service and product look foward to huge year with twitterdeck thanks again from Australia

Dave The Painting Guy said...

I use Tweetdeck all day. I broadcast on uStream.tv in the evening, playing itunes from the same computer. My viewers hear my voice and my background music AND Tweetdeck "chirps" -- I would really appreciate a volume slider to allow me to choose the relative volume of the chirps, rather than only on/off.

Hey Guys Great work but l would like if you have the notification window open up either on top left corner of screen or bottom down near clock function on vista, it is very agitating to try to open new window or close window with it popping up

Stuart said...

I'm finding 0.21b completely unstable, crashes every few min. Anyone else?

@stuart I don't know bout anyone else but I thought I'd let you know that I have the new ver of TD on my portable Ceedo drive and have been able to use it without problems on over 4 different machines. :)

Ruthe
12uthe@gmail.com
http://rutheraves.blogspot.com

Dec 30, 2008

I don't know - maybe it's a problem with Air on OS X?

Luke said...

Can't wait to start using Tweetdeck when multiple account functionality comes. Appreciate your efforts :-)

kealoha said...

Thank you very much! This app is great, running on OS X 10.5.6 and it is running great.

Dec 31, 2008

Michael said...

How do I do an auto-add when someone follows me?

Jan 01, 2009

probek said...

Great program, though I'm missing (or can't find) the option to disable spell checking. Or to tell him to check my German, not my English.

Jan 02, 2009

Anthony Zacharzewski said...

Excellent news on multiple accounts. Looking forward to it.

Tom Stitt said...

DMs deleted in Twitter web app don't get deleted in TweetDeck (they remain cached.) Look forward to a feature that keeps Group settings sync'd on multiple machines.

Jan 03, 2009

Manoj Ranaweera said...

Could you please consider increasing the number of columns available to more than 10? I love TweetDeck and many thanks for continuing to develop it.

Best regards
Manoj

Jan 04, 2009

Velma Gallant said...

Stops working after a few hours. Says Remaining API: 0/100. Closing and reopening doesn't reset, nor does logging out. End up having to go back to web. :(

Jan 06, 2009

Donna Amos said...

Has anyone experienced problems with tweets not appearing after installing new updates? I only receive my @replies and one global search. Suggestions for fixing?

Jan 07, 2009

Mine is only receiving the @replies as well. This has been since yesterday (Jan 6) when Twitter had their slowdown. Twitter's back to normal (last I checked), but my tweetdeck isn't working properly yet. :(

Ashleigh said...

The only thing I wish for is a better 'toast' implementation ;) Thanks though, gotta be the best twitter thick client app about.

Jan 13, 2009

rosie314 said...

I'm not sure where to ask my question. So asking here. When I delete friends from twitter, I still see them listed when I use tweetdeck to edit groups. Help.

Jan 14, 2009

Josephine McMullen said...

I'm having trouble logging in to Twitter via Tweetdeck. It's not a bad password issue. Tweetdeck seems to hang up after I press the login button. Have uninstalled/reinstalled, cleaned registry, etc. Any suggestions?

Lisa Breedt said...

I'm having the same problem than @prattleon above. Just hangs on login screen and have also reinstalled, cleaned registry etc.
Running Vista - is that the problem? Any suggestions pls...

Igor said...

hi there,

i'm still having the same problem that obviously only KDE (Linux) having with Tweetdeck. It install and launches, but it never shows any tweets and only the logout button works.

I've already uninstalled Tweetdeck and Adobe Air (even following the instructions in the Adobe Air Release Notes and renaming the hidden folders), but that didn't change anything. After reinstalling everything, I've been having the same problem as before (I've made a screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/igorschwarzmann/3041268116/).

I've been reading, that Tweetdeck works just fine with Gnome, but switching from KDE to Gnome isn't an option for me.

I would love to use Tweetdeck, because it's the single most powerful tool for Twitter, so I would appreciate any help.

Jan 16, 2009

I cannot get TweetDeck to present any type of login information in Windows 7. Not that I expected it to, but all I get is a blank screen with no option to login. The icons appear at teh top, so I can 'log out and close' the application, but other than that it provides no functionality.

Jan 17, 2009

I've solved the Vista loggin issue - it was my McAfee Firewall settings - TweetDeck was blocked in the Firewall. Sjo - I'm so relieved - was thinking it was a Vista issue!

This is an awesome tool - loving it. Thank you for a great application!

Jan 20, 2009

Bruce said...

I love tweetdeck but I wish I could figure out how to get it to remember my login information on Vista. I checked the box but I still need to enter my twitter username and password every time I start the program

Jan 22, 2009

Aegir said...

Is there a way to turn off the spellchecker?

Jan 24, 2009

Nick said...

The only thing I'd like with the spellchecker is the ability to change the language to UK (or even AU) English. It's 'realised', not 'realized' for me. :)

Fábio Emilio Costa said...

I can't config TweetDeck on Debian Linux. I click and click on Settings and nothing happens. Could I config it manually?

Lisa Breedt - looks like you figured this one out, it does the same if you're not connected to the internet, I'll spread the word - thank you!

Thanks Tweetdeck – love using this app – it’s awesome! But I'm experiencing another small issue as mentioned above by Bruce - When I initially got the TD to work it remembered my login details (using Vista) now it no longer does that - I have to enter my login details every time I open Tweetdeck - any suggestions?

Jan 25, 2009

Lisa - how do you close the app? do you click on the x button or click on the ! button (top right)?

Hey Tweetdeck - wow - something so silly hey!! I've been closing the app using the X - working now when using the !
THANK YOU!

Jan 26, 2009

Oops - that didn't solve the problem - worked once and now not doing it anymore - I tick the option Remember me and use the ! to log out. Still asks me to login?

Cicking on the ! icon will clear any stored username and password, so if you use this icon your details will not be remembered. If you close the app using the usual close window controls (an x icon top left or top right depending on OS) then your details should be remembered.

OK got it! Thanks so much...

Francisco Costa said...

Same problem for Ubuntu 8.10 x64 using Gnome.
Tweetdeck open but bottons dosen't work, only the Logout and Close one.

I resolved my problem with tweetdeck on linux by removing Air completely and installing it from scratch. To remove Air completely, please follow the instructions given by Adobe themselves: http://blogs.adobe.com/air/2008/12/tips_on_resolving_application.html

I'm still having some issues with Air applications (for example: minimizing to tray is doing very crazy things to my X), but it works just fine enough right now.

Jan 27, 2009

Well, i've follow those instructions but the problem persists.
Maybe is there because I use Ubuntu 64bits... :(

Roxy Cross said...

Dr. Alfred Zimmer States, 10/12/1929 - 01/23/2009, lived 79 adventurous years! An only child, he leaves direct decendants; 11 children, 46 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren and my cool stepmom's family! 93 not including spouses and SO's.

So I'm off to honor my father' life, visit my cool stepmom, and see 9 of my 10 siblings, in Dallas. Since Dad has gone on to other things, this gathering will be interesting. I have tissues handy and thanks for your kind thoughts. Back next week, Roxy

Jan 30, 2009

Chris Beaumont said...

Howdy - does anyone know if there's a way to copy a tweetdeck config (groups etc) from one computer to another? I use three computers regularly and it's going to be a real pain to keep having to update the groups configs on all three computers.

Cheers!

Iain Dodsworth said...

Hi, if you copy this folder to the same place on the destination computer then you should have your groups

Max OS X:
/Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/TweetDeckFast.<RANDOM>/Local Store
Windows:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\TweetDeckFast.<RANDOM>\Local Store

wendy said...

Thanks so much for tweetdeck - I absolutely love it!! I'm wondering though if anyone has any suggestions... my @replies column won't show anything. I've tried deleting it, reopening it, and I refresh all the time, but even when I know I have a new reply that just showed up online, it still never shows up in tweetdeck. I've made my own temporary solution up by keeping a search column open with my name which gives me all my replies & any discussion which is great, but I would still like my replies to show up in their column if possible. Any advice, anyone? Thanks again for such an amazing application!!

Feb 01, 2009

Thanks so much for getting back to me, though I'm still having a problem finding the directory as I'm using Vista x64 - do you know what path the config is stored on in Vista?

Many thanks!

Dr. Alfred Zimmer States, 10/12/1929 - 01/23/2009, lived 79 adventurous years! An only child, he left direct decendants; 11 children, 50 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren and my cool stepmom's family. 93 not including spouses etc.

We honored my father' life, visited our stepmom, and saw 10 of 11 siblings, in Dallas. Through the beauty of technology, our brother Derek, in Asia, and who can not travel, was able to join us via laptop, Verizon internet access and Skype. It was very emotional to be connected to him again.

Thanks for your kind thoughts, Roxy

Feb 03, 2009

DocPaul said...

Love the app, just need a way to keep settings sync'd on multiple machines!!

Laney said...

I read that identi.ca support is coming soon - great! Will I be able to display my twitter and identi.ca messages in the same window (in the style of gwibber)? I'm looking for a good OSX client to use at work and tweetdeck could very well be it if it has this feature!

Feb 05, 2009

Benjamin Lovejoy said...

Wondering how to adjust the number of favorited tweets I can see. They're all there in the web app. Help?

Feb 06, 2009

Riccardo said...

is there a way to remove old searches so I don't keep getting a notification every time there is a new match?

Hartmut said...

Isn't it possible to use aspell for international spell checking or how I can use e.g. german language?

excuse my bad english :-(

Sorry for the extra post, trying to stop getting emails ever time someone posts here and it seems the only way is to post again with the box unchecked.

igor said...

same here.

Velma said...

Benjamin had a good idea. I don't want the emails anymore either. :D

Feb 24, 2009

mbrosen said...

"Removed auto-update of favorites column"

Why?

Just noticed that this doesn't update dynamically. I often tag tweets from my phone or work machine for later. These added favorites are now not reflected within the app.

Feel so out of sync...

Mar 11, 2009

Kevin said...

Like Wendy above, I can't seem to do anything to get my replies column to work... As noted, even when I *know* that I have reply messages, nothing has ever appeared in that column on TweetDeck. Otherwise a brilliant appy!

Mar 17, 2009

Ryan said...

How do I make the search stop? The pane doesn't have an 'X' and I keep getting search results for something I'm no longer interested in.

Mar 19, 2009

Andrew said...

My replies column has never worked in any version of TweetDeck. I am currently on v0.21.5b, on Windows XP. Neither an uninstall-reinstall nor remove-add column have fixed it.

Apr 30, 2009

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I need more than 10 groups. I really, really do. Any chance that capability is available now or soon?

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Thanks for taking care of this small detail for me.

Dream BIG!

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May 12, 2009

Phil said...

Please add support for additional accounts, at least one more twitter account! It could show up with a checkbox, just like whether to post to facebook or not. Replies and DMs could just say Account:Replies and Account:DM. I use groups and do NOT keep my "all friends" column up, but I'd imagine you could have an "Account:All friends" column, or just mix them? Thanks, love the 'deck!

May 14, 2009

majorghn said...

Twit Deck sucks...don't waste your time with it!! It freezes up, it will delete all your stuff, I have had to delete it and re-download it 3 times in a month!! Tired of it...no more!!

That's funny. Tweetdeck is the #1 Twitter app in the wurled! Perhaps it's your OS!

That's because their is no one yet that has the same thing, so people just put up with it, I have heard tons of complaints about freeze ups and crashes on Twitter about it.

Maj. G. H. Nairn

TweetDeck’s posterous

TweetDeck v0.21 is here - Merry Christmas!

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