Twitter is going to force TweetDeck users to switch to the ‘new’ version

Twitter is going to force everyone using TweetDeck to switch to the “new” version to help alleviate some of the problems TweetDeck has been experiencing lately. I used quotes around “new” because Experience has been in preview for about two years, but according to a twitter employeeThe “recent changes” have broken the old version of the app and will likely mean that the company will be moving everyone over to the updated experience.

Twitter staffers have also shared some mild clarifications about what’s happening with TweetDeck at this time. For many people on the old interface, TweetDeck is largely useless right now; All my columns are just going around with “loading…” messages, and my co-workers noticed something similar.

While the empty columns appeared after Twitter introduced rate-limiting tweets, according to Twitter employees, those rate limits aren’t actually causing problems with the old TweetDeck. Instead, employees claim the problems are due to Twitter removing legacy APIs to prevent data scraping.

Work to force the change will begin “this week”. the employee saidAnd people are pleading with Twitter for answers “Please do not do.” I can’t blame them – I remember not liking the TweetDeck preview when I tried it out in 2021, and neither did my colleague Shawn Hollister. I don’t know how much the preview has changed since then, and I hope Twitter has improved it for the better, but I’m not optimistic; Twitter’s TweetDeck account hasn’t said a word since August,

When contacted for comment, Twitter’s press email auto-replied with the poop emoji, as has been the case since march,