Twitter to shut down TweetDeck for iPhone, Android by May 7

Twitter has made it official that it would retire TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone from their respective app stores and will stop functioning on May 7. Apart from that, its Facebook integration is also scheduled to be shut down on May 7, stated Twitter, under the title 'An Update on TweetDeck', last Friday.
TweetDeck is a dashboard for staying in touch with contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and some other social media networks.
"TweetDeck is the most powerful Twitter tool for tracking real-time conversations. Its flexibility and customizable layout let you keep up with what's happening on Twitter, across multiple topics and accounts, in real time."
Twitter said that it is going to focus its development efforts on modern, Web-based versions of TweetDeck. "To that end, we are discontinuing support for our older apps: TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone."
Additionally, "TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone rely on v1.0 of Twitter's API, which we are retiring starting this month. Leading up to that retirement, Twitter's platform team will be performing occasional tests that will affect applications that rely on API v1.0."
Over the upcoming weeks, Twitter cautioned that the users of TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone might experience some outages with those apps before they are removed from their respective app stores in early May.
Twitter had acquired TweetDeck for $40 million in May 2011 and also received flak for not regularly updating the TweetDeck apps.

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