Are you one of those technological Luddites still using the TweetDeck app for Mac? Well, we hope you’re comfortable with change. You’re about to be dragged into the future that Twitter wants when the app is shut down on 1 July 2022.
Which is fair enough. Twitter acquired the platform in 2011 before systematically shutting it down, piece by piece. The mobile versions went away in 2013. The Windows version was dispersed in 2016. The Mac was the final stronghold for the Tweetdeck app, and now that too is falling.
Bon voyage, TweetDeck
We’re saying goodbye to TweetDeck for the Mac app to focus on making TweetDeck even better and testing our new Preview. July 1 is the last day it’ll be available.
You can still use TweetDeck on web and more invites to try the Preview will be rolling out over the next few months!
— TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) June 1, 2022
The news was announced via tweet because doing it any other way would have been… kinda weird. And if you’re a Mac user holding on to TweetDeck like grim death, don’t worry. You’re still able to access the platform. You just need to do it via a browser window. Hopefully, it’s a little less hinky than the soon-to-be-retired app.
It’s not going away entirely, either. There’s a new version of the app in the works. Twitter has been working on it for some time and may have plans to monetise the Big New Thing™. But that’s not exactly certain as yet, and then there’s the whole Elon Musk question.
The question being: Is he ever going to pay for Twitter? There’s a second question after that: What differences will this make to how the company has attempted to generate cash? We’ll likely see in the coming weeks, but for the present, there’s at least one certainty. Tweetdeck for Mac is going away, and there’s nothing you can do about it.