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JUNE 2010 PC MAGAZINE DIGITAL EDITION 1 FIRST WORD LANCE ULANOFF Please Don’t Take My TweetDeck witter is about to become a other third-party functions/apps, such as much more robust platform for photo uploading to Twitpic, the bit.ly URL doing, well, whatever it is we do shortener, and even tweet translation ser- Ton Twitter every day. Most of vices. It’s a remarkably rich app. the people I follow—meaning All in all, TweetDeck is my one-stop desk- those whom I actually pay attention to— top source for all things Twitter. I almost use it in much the same way. Yes, there are never visit the Twitter site. Its single-column the feeds, which deliver hard-news head- view is way too linear for me, and I don’t like lines, but the beauty of Twitter is what lies Twitter’s form of re-tweets, which don’t let in between the news reports. In any case, me edit before posting. I keep track of all things Twitter related I’m not unaware, obviously, of all that with TweetDeck, a desktop Twitter man- Twitter’s been doing to incorporate more agement utility I’ve been using since 2008. powerful functions into its site. Twitter Lists, a feature that lets you organize or “group” Inside TweetDeck people you follow, is nifty. The new location- For those unfamiliar with the Adobe Air– based service also sounds great, though I’m based app, TweetDeck lets you customize not a huge fan of telling people where I am your Twitter world in an organized, colum- all the time. Some of the on-page pop-up nar view, with unfiltered tweets from those information you can get for people on Twit- you follow in the first column, tweets that ter is pretty nice, too. mention you in the second column, and direct (private-line) tweets to you in the Finally Tweeting for Dollars third. You can add columns based on key- In April, Twitter announced an ad platform, words, specific Twitter members, other which company execs hope will help propel accounts, and so on. It builds in a lot of the the rapidly growing social-networking ser- 2 PC MAGAZINE DIGITAL EDITION JUNE 2010 Twitter’s plans will kill many third-party products, with no guarantee of a better experience. vice into the financial black. I have my doubts helped keep you productive. about the plan, which, oddly, pulls down When Windows 95 came along, it incor- underperforming ads. That sounds like a fun- porated many of these third-party utility damental misunderstanding of how market- functions inside the OS. Those companies ing and advertising traditionally work. But tried to put on a brave face and said Micro- perhaps it will be a huge success anyway, soft’s entrance simply validated the mar- because all of the promoted tweets will be ket. That was right before they went out of hyper-contextual, super real-time, and a lot business. In the word-processing market, it more than simple brand-building messages. was a combination of Microsoft’s partner This is just phase one in what is clearly a connections, market strength, and product plan to reinvent Twitter. One of the company’s quality that did in virtually all of its competi- chief investors, Fred Wilson, laid it all out in tors. Later, Microsoft would, inadvertently horrifyingly stark terms in a recent blog post. I hope, kill categories simply by upgrading In a nutshell, Wilson says that third-party the OS. It has taken years for third-party companies like TweetDeck need to stop “fill- companies to re-emerge in these catego- ing holes” in Twitter and start building some ries, and most make it only by giving away innovation that leverages Twitter. Why? their products. The new Twitter will probably act a lot like Twitter is the new Microsoft. Its plans will kill TweetDeck and offer heavy amounts of a lot of third-party products, and there is no information, customization, and utility all guarantee that what Twitter will provide will in one page. Another article I read counts be any better than what’s already out there. all the third-party services likely headed to Based on my official Twitter for Blackberry the scrap heap. To Wilson, this is all good. He and re-tweet experiences, I think it could be likens the scenario to the way desktop pub- worse. But Twitter has the power. All it needs lishing saved the Mac in the 1980s. I liken it to to do is make a few subtle tweaks to the Twit- Windows 95 (and subsequent OS releases), ter API, and whichever third-party tool it killing huge parts of the software and utility wants to get rid of will stop working. market in the mid-90s. I don’t know if there’s anything I can do to stop Twitter, but I think the time is now Learning from Windows to launch my “Save TweetDeck” campaign. 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