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TweetDeck for iPad
Apart from, how do I get one of these, my first thought as I watched the iPad being revealed was that TweetDeck was MADE for this device (or should that be this device was made for TweetDeck...unlikely).
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One of the great thing about being a small company is that each new member of team can potentially have an effect (on the team and our products) which is greater than the sum of the parts and as such I’m very careful about who we bring into team and ultimately who we give the Batcave access codes to. So, with that in mind, I’m very proud to welcome Max Howell to the TweetDeck team.
Max comes hot from Last.fm where he lead development of the hugely successful desktop and mobile clients and, as some of you may be aware, is a well respected figure in the github community and author of Homebrew, a project which is due to overtake Ruby on Rails in terms of github popularity. And that has only scratched the surface as to what Max has been up to in the past few years.
In his own words Max is open source, prolific, multi language, design skilled with attention to detail and good eye for aesthetics. He also has one of the deepest voices I’ve heard in a long time so may give Richard a run for his money on the silky smooth TweetDeck video voiceover front.
So it’s pretty obvious Max is a prodigious talent and a great addition to the team but what will he be doing at TweetDeck? In a word mobile. And lots of it. More annoucements to come on the other new members of the team.
Apart from, how do I get one of these, my first thought as I watched the iPad being revealed was that TweetDeck was MADE for this device (or should that be this device was made for TweetDeck…unlikely).
TweetDeck’s raison d’être, its reason for being, is to display multiple streams of social and real time data in a large, powerful, flexible interface…completely regardless of the platform it finds itself on. Hence our TweetDeck for iPhone is the only true multi-column Twitter client interface available on the iPhone and we’ve had to do a bit of squashing and squeezing to get it all on there. The TweetDeck App for iPad takes this vision up a level and makes full use of the iPad’s large screen size and gesture-based Multi-Touch navigation.
We didn’t just want to port TweetDeck for iPhone to iPad so we’ve built a new interface which is quintessentially TweetDeck but also takes full advantage of all this new device offers – our “highest common denominator” approach. We’ve actually built two new interfaces, one for portrait and the other for landscape – more on the differences below.
When you first open the TweetDeck App for iPad, you can add all your Twitter accounts (multi-account support!) and then, if you have one, enter your TweetDeck account and choose which synchronized columns you want to bring in from the Desktop TweetDeck or TweetDeck App for iPhone. Now all your columns will load in and you’ll be able to scroll up and down individual columns and left and right between multiple columns using just your finger – the most natural way of navigating TweetDeck we can think of.
Whichever way you hold iPad you can view multiple columns and on top of that we’ve designed portrait mode for viewing tweet details and user profiles and landscape mode for viewing even more columns at once and “column management.”
A nice added extra for TweetDeck for iPad, which isn’t currently available in any other TweetDeck version, is the map view. Simply click on the top of a column and choose “View on Map” and the whole app will flip round to show a full screen map with all geocoded tweets from the column shown. You can also add in geotagged tweets from all your other columns and have a full-on TweetDeck “world view” experience.
As you would expect TweetDeck for iPad is packed with functionality, too much to explain in this post but here’s a roundup:
multiple columns.
multiple twitter accounts.
reply, retweet, direct message and favorite from a tweet.
view user profiles.
see recent updates and who a person is following and being followed by.
follow or unfollow and block or unblock a user.
add All Friends, Mentions and DM columns.
add Search columns.
add Trending Topic columns.
add Twitter list columns – both lists you’ve created and those you follow.
cross post updates to any combination of your accounts.
geotag your tweets.
shorten URLs.
access your Twitter contact list.
upload photos (from the on-board Photo Library).
rearrange columns however you like and delete those you no longer need.
view geocoded tweets on a full-screen map.
Over the coming few days keep an eye on the TweetDeck twitter account as we’ll be tweeting out details on hidden features, gestures and various tips.
Yesterday saw the final ceremony for the Shorty Awards, the awards which honour "the best producers of short, real-time content on Twitter".
Thanks to all the votes you cast online, TweetDeck made it into the final under the heading of "The Year's Best Apps On Twitter", so we sent along Sam Mandel, our man in the Big Apple, to TheTimesCenter in New York with his fingers crossed.
And it turns out that all that finger-crossing did the trick, as TweetDeck was announced the winner - an amazing result for us!
Over to our roving reporter Sam, for the news from the ceremony. Warning, this report contains a muppet...
"As the New York outpost of TweetDeck, I had the honor of accepting our award for Best Application at the Second Annual Shorty Awards last night.
Despite moving from last year's location (a bar in Brooklyn) to the more formal confines of the New York Times Center, the awards were great fun and very well organized, with CNN's Rick Sanchez keeping things moving at a fast pace.
It was a thrill to meet a few celebrities (Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and especially Grover from Seasame Street), and to see the great things people are doing within the Twitter medium.
Most of all, as at every real time web event, it was great to see how many people were using TweetDeck and hear from members of the TweetDeck community how our product makes their online life easier and more rewarding, as well as how we can make TweetDeck even better in the future."
So on behalf of the entire TweetDeck team, we want to say a huge thank you to every one who voted for us - you really are the most amazing community. It is because of you that we keep striving to make TweetDeck the best that we can.
Also our great thanks go to the organisers of the awards for putting on a great evening and for looking after Sam so well :)
And finally, thanks to Grover, for giving us a picture of Sam that will grace the walls of the Batcave for years to come!
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