Twitter is sinking the original TweetDeck to make way for its web apps. And why Twitter is done with native.
Another month, another Twitter app bites the dust — and this time, it's one of Twitter's own. The version of TweetDeck that runs on Adobe Air (the one with the yellow icon) will cease to function as soon as May, according to the company. Its iOS counterparts, which haven't been substantially updated in over a year, will be removed from the App Store as well.
Twitter signaled this move some time ago, when, in 2011, it announced "native" versions of TweetDeck for both Windows and Mac. Early versions of the software didn't match the Air version's feature set — including (admittedly half-baked) support for Facebook News Feed — so many power users stayed behind. Today, predictably, they're not too happy: