Say so long to TweetDeck for Windows

Remember TweetDeck for Windows? Well, as of April 15, it'll be dead, buried in the giant software graveyard. RIP.

Twitter on Thursday announced that it is streamlining and enhancing the TweetDeck backend. As a result, if you're logged into Twitter via Twitter.com or Analytics.twitter.com, you'll no longer need to also login to TweetDeck.

It also means that Twitter has decided to stop developing TweetDeck for Windows.

Launched as part of the original HTML5 TweetDeck in 2011, TweetDeck for Windows was a separate app that had a near-identical experience to the standard TweetDeck in Chrome experience. Read more...