Update on TweetDeck syncing

Some of the developers from TweedDeck got in touch with me after my last post regarding my issues on the group sync functionality. In good form they were able to get an updated version of TweetDeck (0.26.4) out quickly and, thus far after testing that version for a wile it appears the sync feature is working! Thanks TweetDeck!

There are a few things to note regarding the sync function, which I have been told they are working to speed up. First, group members really only sync every 20 minutes, so you should run an instance for at least 20 minutes to make sure the changes get pushed to the server. Second, when you launch TweetDeck on a second machine it appears when the application sync the new group list the users will not actually be filtered until a NEW tweet is recenved from that user, at that point prior loaded tweets from that user will be properly filtered.

All together, a good update to TweetDeck and I am glad to see them responding so quickly to bugs!.

Tweetdeck Syncing Sucks

Like many people I spend a fair bit of time everyday using twitter from multiple computers, I basically have 4 points 1) work PC 2) Home Mac 3) Mac laptop and 4) iPhone. As I’ve discussed in prior posts here and here, the biggest problem I have with twitter clients today is the inability to filter users into groups and have those same groups accessible from all my access points. As a general rule I do my best to read most all tweets from the people that I follow, as a result putting people into group makes this process more efficient. I have an email system that satisfied this but for other reasons (which I am in the process of writing a sort of postmortem on). When I heard the latest version of Tweetdeck provided syncing of groups and there members across all platforms in conjunction with the launch of their iPhone application I honestly thought tweetdeck would solve my issues. In nearly a week of testing I have found the latest version of tweetdeck, 0.26.2, to absolutely suck at syncing. And I think I will avoid tweetdeck until they fix these features as I have sunk hours into trying to get these issues resolved and the tweetdeck staff has been absolutely unresponsive on twitter, via email, via blog comment responses, or their feedback forum.