Facebook currently allows people to link their profile to Twitter, which lets people push Facebook status messages to Twitter. Twitter had allowed people to push their Twitter messages to their Facebook profiles. In the blog post, Twitter also said it will "discontinue support for our Facebook integration".
The company has embarked on an aggressive campaign to roll out new features, which in the past few weeks have included improvements to its search algorithm, changes to how search results are displayed and new tools for advertisers. The three TweetDeck versions to be retired all rely on version 1.0 of Twitter’s API (application programming interface), which Twitter is phasing out. In the meantime, however, the applications may not function properly, Twitter said. Twitter warned that TweetDeck for Android and the iPhone will be removed from applications in stores in early May and will stop functioning a short time later. New capabilities will be added to Twitter’s Web application first, then rolled out to its Windows and Mac clients, Twitter said.
TWEETDECK FOR IPHONE UPDATE
Web applications allow developers to roll changes out faster, as people do not have to manually update applications on their computers or devices. Twitter said it has focused for the last 18 months on its Web application for browsers as well as an application for Google’s Chrome OS.