TweetDeck Rises From The Dead And Will Become A Twitter Blue App In 30 Days… WTF??
Yesterday, I noticed that TweetDeck which is a popular social media monitoring tool stopped working for me. Then later in the day, I noted that a new version of TweetDeck had launched for me, and it worked perfectly. I found that curious and now I have the facts behind all of this:
Twitter’s Tweetdeck has been a much loved feature for years, allowing users to customize the experience of reading the social media site with multiple columns. But Tweetdeck won’t be free for long. In fact, Twitter announced on Monday that Tweetdeck will only be available to subscribers of Twitter Blue starting 30 days from now.
“We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via tweetdeck.twitter.com by selecting ‘Try the new TweetDeck’ in the bottom left menu,” Twitter Support tweeted on Monday.
But you have to scroll to the bottom of the tweet to get to the catch. Tweetdeck will become a subscription-only feature soon, something that was met with criticism on the platform almost immediately.
“In 30 days, users must be Verified to access TweetDeck,” Twitter Support tweeted.
It’s not a shock that users of TweetDeck are mad. Because it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that forcing people to pay for something that used to be free is going to anger them. Or put in a way that Elon Musk would understand, pissed off people aren’t going to pay him $8 a month to use TweetDeck. This is another one of his ill advised, ill conceived, boneheaded, and just plain stupid moves that is killing Twitter bit by bit. You have to wonder at what point will Elon stop pointing the gun at his foot and pulling the trigger over and over again. Because these self inflicted gunshot wounds are going to be fatal to him and his reputation sooner or later.
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