Is Tweetdeck Killing My Tweets!?!

[NiallSmith]

So I remember reading a while back that there were some disadvantages to posting on Twitter from Tweetdeck, but when I went back to find this information again, I couldn't find anything related to that topic.

With that, do any of you Mozzers out there have any compelling reasons as to why I'd prefer to tweet directly from my Twitter account on the Twitter site, instead of on Tweetdeck!?!

Any and all insights/commentary/speculations would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance!

[matbennett]

The only thing I can think of is related to facebook not twitter. Posts made by 3rd party apps were beleived to have inherently lower edgerank. I don't think that was officially confirmed though.

Can't think of anything for twitter.

[AhlerManagement]

I believe sometime in 2011, Twitter started clamping down on third-party apps. One example is that TweetDeck had a feature that allowed you to post a tweet that was longer then the standard 140 characters. That feature no longer exists, as many third-party apps had to meet the requirements that Twitter asked for. Basically, Twitter wants any app to behave like the Twitter site so in hopes more users start using the Twitter site.

Twitter is making the API rules tighter yet. 3rd party apps can't go over 100k users, unless they have permission from Twitter. http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/08/17/twitter-4/

As far as TweetDeck goes, I use it and I love it. Twitter now owns TweetDeck, so if you prefer TweetDeck over the Twitter site, use it all you want, Twitter won't mind

[matbennett]

One other thing came to mind overnight.  I think that the API had some limits with regards to follow/day.  That might make an API reliant app less useful for some purposes.