TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that allows users to send and view tweets.

Features:

• all Twitter operations supported
• ability to search, filter and group tweets
• auto-update of threads within Twitter
• Twitpic support
• URL shortening via several different services at user’s option
• shorten tweets via Shrinktweet**
• translate tweets into any number of languages**
• in addition to TwitScoop and 12seconds video, now integration with StockTwits**
• ability to display and select recent hashtags from drop-down menu**

The Good:

TweetDeck does an excellent job of not only sending and receiving tweets, but of allowing users to manage how tweets are grouped and displayed. Additional viewing columns are created within TweetDeck each time a new filter or group is applied. This is a powerful feature and is especially useful for “power tweeters”. The extra features added by TweetDeck are very impressive.**

The Not-so-Good:

For all the great stuff that TweetDeck lets users do, there are a couple of things that are irritating shortfalls. Sometimes TweetDeck gets its Twitter API request limit numbers messed up and “hangs”. A bigger irritant, though, is the lack of multi-account support. That would truly give it “rock star” status. Finally, TweetDeck is still in beta, so everyone should be patient.

**TweetDeck has recently released a new version (v0.21.5b) with some additional features. Those are noted herein by a **. Tweetwave.com rating is now 4.0/5**

Further updated review:

TweetDeck is now on version 0.25b. The principal changes since we last reviewed TweetDeck are the addition of Facebook integration and plenty of new bugs. The Facebook integration is a good feature which adds one more social media tool to the TweetDeck toolbox. The extra bugs and hang times have been discouraging, but the TweetDeck guys are working on it, we’re sure. Our Tweetwave.com rating remains at 4.0/5.

Tweetwave.com rates it: ★★★★