Reverting to the old tweetdeck

The new version of tweetdeck is hideous to use. Simple things have become virtually impossible to do. Luckily there is a solution! I followed these instructions and downloaded adobe air, the old tweetdeck air file and bingo! You just have to remember to uninstall any old versions of tweetdeck you have lying around otherwise you will have a problem. Worked first time for me and I’m happily on the older tweetdeck.

I tried seesmic but the silverlight plugin tries to install it in the downloads folder for some unknown reason. I did copy it into applications which worked for a while but then went wonky. It has all the features of tweetdeck but the user interface looks awful in comparison and it is very slow. Shame really as if it looked like tweetdeck and had its features it would be great. It also had a smaller footprint than tweetdeck – it can be a bit of a bloater. I also tried echofon which if it had 2 tabs side by side it would have been fine.

Hopefully tweetdeck will have the sense to release an update which has all the functionality restored that they have removed.