Better tweetdeck full#

I’m happy Twitter’s bringing over its new composer and direct messages box from. The new TweetDeck has some silver linings. For example, here's mine: /i9bT1Mkfr8 - Eric Zuckerman July 20, 2021Īnd yet some of Zuckerman’s columns only let you see two large tweets at once. If you're a longtime user and thrown off by the image below, rest assured you can customize your columns to look and behave very much like the version you know and love. I've been using the new TweetDeck preview for 9 months. Twitter’s Eric Zuckerman, who helps the company partner with news publishers, even defended the design by tweeting a picture of his own: Hours later, Twitter realized its mistake, tweeting out “Don’t worry! Your favorite TweetDeck features aren’t going away,” suggesting that columns are alive and well. When Twitter teased the new TweetDeck on Tuesday, the kneejerk reaction was that our precious columns might have been done away with for good, due to a teaser image that - to put it mildly - didn’t cater to TweetDeck’s power users.

Better tweetdeck full#

I’m frustrated my 16:10 monitor can no longer fit four full columns without changing my browser zoom, but it might honestly be worse in landscape: if you follow people who retweet a lot of things, you’ll be lucky to see four at a time in any given column before they slide out of view. Together, these changes add up to a less glanceable TweetDeck, whether you’ve got it up on a dedicated portrait monitor (like me) or not.

Scroll bars are chunkier now, because they’re browser native unlike the previous custom bars - and on Chrome, they don’t seem to render properly in dark mode.quote tweets) now take up far more vertical space. Twitter lists inexplicably come with an “overview” at the top, one that leaves an ugly “show overview” button even if you minimize it.TweetDeck’s left rail is wider, for no discernible reason.Reply, retweet, and like buttons have been spaced out, and take up more room.There’s a lot of wasted space around tweets.If you break it down, there are easily half a dozen little culprits, each maybe forgivable on its own: I’m now worried Twitter has forgotten why we use TweetDeck. It’s also why I can’t comprehend how Twitter could have let this new version of TweetDeck into the world, even in beta form.

That’s why it’s such a powerful tool for the world’s newsrooms, and a tool The Verge uses daily. The power of TweetDeck is that it’s glanceable, a way to passively tap into a firehose of personal interests. It gives you an entire dashboard of tweets you can throw up on a monitor, unattended. TweetDeck lets you see more tweets without needing to scroll. But at that same moment, TweetDeck’s new preview only showed me 21 tweets - 38 percent less, and that’s with the narrowest columns and the smallest font available, just to be clear.įor over a decade, people have sworn by TweetDeck as the power user alternative to the original Twitter app, but what most people really mean is one specific thing: it lets you see more tweets. That’s how many I could see in my traditional TweetDeck window the other day.