Turning Off Deck.ly in TweetDeck
One of my biggest Twitter pet peeves is when someone tweets longer than 140 characters and you need to click a link to go to another website to see the whole message. My opinion is that there are other ways to communicate messages that are longer than the Twitter limit such as splitting the message into multiple tweets (though abuse of this options is also irksome) or posting the message to your blog.
Despite my objections this practice is catching on and being used more and more lately. Even to the point where a new feature to enable easier usage of this solution was added to my non-mobile Twitter client of choice, TweetDeck. They call it deck.ly and it was introduced in version 0.37.2. If you go over 140 characters the service automatically kicks in. Your tweet will not include a deck.ly link to the complete version of the tweet.
This, of course, does not help the problem. (Or at least what I see as a problem.) But adding fuel to the fire is that an option to turn deck.ly does not exist in version 0.37.2.
Thankfully a new version, 0.37.3, was released this morning that includes an off switch. Upgrade to the new version here then follow these steps to turn off deck.ly:
- Click the Setting button.
- In the General section (which is the default section of the Setting dialog) uncheck the checkbox next to the description “Use Deck.ly for sending long update”.
- Click the Save Settings button.
Now you’re back to old school tweeting the way it was meant to be.
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