TweetDeck v0.21.5

Thursday, 12 February 2009

Since this is a point release, rather than a full new version, it contains mainly minor functionality updates and bug fixes but there are one or two interesting new features:

you can now twitter to a global audience with the ability to translate tweets you’ve received and written into most languages
for those interested in monitoring stock information and chatter you can now turn your TweetDeck into a “StockTwits terminal” with the introduction of 5 StockTwits columns
get your tweets out to those who are not on twitter by emailing them from TweetDeck
for those times when I need to communicate something to all the open TweetDecks there is now a built-in messaging system

Rather than explaining everything in great detail, below is a video walkthrough of the main functionality. There is a full changelog at the bottom of this post.

[UPDATE: video removed]

Your TweetDeck will auto-update when the release is available or you can get it directly from here if you already have AIR installed:

http://tweetdeck.com/beta/TweetDeck_0_21_5.air

I’ve also been working on the next full release which should be ready soon and is a real upgrade to the existing version with particular emphasis on memory usage, multiple accounts & synchronisation amongst a whole host of other new features.

If you have any comments or questions please do let me know.

Video Walkthrough of v0.21.5:

[UPDATE: video removed]

ChangeLog:

Added TweetDeck Services tab to Settings window

Added Powered by Twitscoop message

Added “reset window” command to Windows system tray

Added auto shorten url in shorten url box when user hits enter

Added auto include hashtags from original tweet when replying

Added persistent last 10 used hashtags dropdown to tweet box

Added twitter.com connectivity check to login screen

Added preference to view profiles via web page (saves 3 api calls)

Added global messaging/alert system

Added preference to control brightness of icons

Added StockTwits Friends, Portfolio, All, Recommended, Commentary columns

Added new “Other actions” menu to tweet

Added Forward tweet via email to Other Actions drop-down

Added Search this user to Other Actions drop-down

Added preference to hide sent DMs

Added preference to hide previously loaded tweets

Added preference to limit maximum number of tweets in each column

Added Translate functionality to tweet box

Added Translate functionality to individual tweets

Added Untranslate functionality to individual tweets

Added auto-swap to international font when required by translation

Added extra line of height to tweets in narrow column mode

Added a space before the shortened url link inthe tweet box

Updated Tweetdeck to pull twitscoop API every 2 minutes

Updated column title to link to twitscoop.com

Fixed profile follow/unfollow button to use extra API call to friendshipexists

Fixed duplicate posts in group columns

Fixed inconsistencies with unseen tweet count

Fixed “in reply to” when user changes the recipient

Fixed favoriting in profile tweets

Fixed links with # in not displaying in tweets

Fixed reply column showing already cleared tweets

Fixed overlap issue in remove column confirm window

Removed Tweetdeck Services auto insert

Removed maximum character limit on tweet box