So, on the heels of Nambu and then Seesmic Desktop, Tweetdeck has released some updates.
Of course. I would have too, if I were Tweetdeck. Here are the changes I’ve seen announced:
- Memory Drain. According to the email, memory usage will be capped so you can have your Tweetdeck always on. Apparently Tweetdeck is working with Adobe to fix the problem of the constant drain on memory. From the Tweetdeck blog:
We know that many of our users have been experiencing problems with TweetDeck gobbling up memory and not releasing it. The memory leak issue has forced some users to re-start TweetDeck regularly and we’re really sorry about that. We’ve been listening and working hard, together with Adobe, making improvements to TweetDeck to fix the memory leak. Today we’re delighted to be able to tell you that the memory leak has been plugged and now the latest version of TweetDeck will peak at a certain level and won’t go any higher. So you can leave your TweetDeck running all day, all night, or forever if you really want to.
- Inclusion of the new Digg URL shortener and in-app preview of shortened URLs
- Support for Spotify URLs (open the Spotify player to play music from a tweeted link)
- In-app preview of Twitpic images
- Facebook integration for Facebook status updates (but no commenting or “like” options)
- Integration with 12seconds to record and share 12-second video clips from within Tweetdeck
- Option to have usernames auto-complete in the tweet box.
- Option to automatically include hashtags when replying to messages.
- Removing unread counter at top of each column.
I’m going to hang in there with Seesmic Desktop – I’m already pretty attached to it – but I wasn’t a Tweetdeck user to begin with. This is a smart move on Tweetdeck’s part and should successfully keep their users from migrating to Seesmic out of curiosity.
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