Tweetdeck for iPhone Gets Rebuilt and Comes Back from the Dead

Tweetdeck for iPhone was a nice release, but it quickly faded due to the rise of superior twitter clients such as SimplyTweet, Twitter (formerly Tweetie), and more recently Tweetbot. However, Tweetdeck fans will be happy to know the latest version has been completely rebuilt from the ground up, and is now in the App Store.

Features:
• All major Twitter features are supported: Sending updates, retweeting (native and old-style), favourites, mentions, direct messages and searching
• Posting to multiple Twitter accounts is a breeze
• Facebook status updates, notifications, wall posts, Likes and comments are all at your fingertips
• Configurable, combined Home, Me and Inbox columns are standard, bringing all your feeds and notifications together
• Fully flexible custom columns allow the combination of any number of different feeds, from all services and all accounts. You decide what you want to see, just pinch a column and start configuring.
• Innovative navigation of Twitter profiles helps you discover new feeds that can all be added as columns at the touch of a button
• See the conversation in context with tweets above and below in detail view.
• Easily send long posts thanks to full Deck.ly support
• Clean & clear compose window features image uploading, geo-tagging and username autocomplete for @mentions. Press and hold a link to auto-shorten using j.mp
• Login with your TweetDeck account to speed through the setup process, or just provide a Twitter or Facebook account and get started.
• Jump to the top of a column with a quick tap of the iPhone status bar.

I downloaded Tweetdeck and gave it a quick test spin. It’s definitely cleaner, less cluttered and works exactly as described. You can ‘pinch out’ to see your columns (which are customizable) and composing a tweet is very straight forward. Swipe left and right to move between columns. I did like how you could press and hold to auto shorten URLs. You are notified of new tweets when the top of columns light up yellow.

In the giant pool of iPhone twitter clients, this new build of Tweetdeck is not bad. However, I’m still having fun switching back and forth between SimplyTweet and Tweetbot.

Click here to download Tweetdeck–it’s free. Let me know what you think!