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Apparentlyacquisition rumourshaven’t slowed down the TweetDeck team, as today it released a completely rebuilt iOS app,TweetDeck 2.0is slick, more responsive and has added better navigation and customization features that keep it in the running as one of the premier Twitter clients for iOS devices. Admittedly, I had abandoned TweetDeck 1.0 some time ago, in favour of other clients such as HootSuite and, more recently, TweetBot. TweetDeck’s utilization of AIR was what had initially turned me off of the application as a whole, and it took the iOS app with it....

I can’t say that it’s terribly surprising, givenTwitter’s acquisition of TweetDecka few months ago, but today we’ve gotten the news that TweetDeck has updated its applications across all platforms and the death of Deck.ly will come as a result. For those unfamiliar, Deck.ly is a platform that allowed you to automatically tweet things longer than 140 characters. If you did, the tweet would be archived onto the Deck.ly site, and a link would be provided in the tweet for you to read the longer-form prose....

If you’re a fan of TweetDeck, but need to use it in the browser, thenChromeDeckhas been your go-to for the past few months. However, if you’re not a fan of Chrome, then that’s been a problem. Problems no more. The TweetDeck team has just announced in ablog postthat it has brought TweetDeck to the Web with a browser-based version that requires “no downloads, no App Stores and is not limited to any one brand of web browser....

Deck.ly is Tweetdeck’s latest feature that allows users to post Tweets longer than 140 characters.We coveredits first mention last week, but it is now officially here. Iain Dodsworth, founder and CEO of Tweetdeck told us via email: “What we’re doing here first and foremost is delivering on the most requested feature we’ve ever had. Our users want to post messages over 140 characters and this is one feature we thought we should build ourselves....

Tweetdeck held another one its “Hack Days”, bringing together all of its designers and developers to stop working on their usual tasks and start to build or come up with an idea that can either increase the feature-set of Tweetdeck or take the company in a completely new direction. Each one of the team has created a video or screenshot of their creations, allowing visitors to its blog to view the concepts that were presented by the Tweetdeck team on Wednesday’s Hack Day....