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"If you're not familiar with our love for third-party Twitter clients, then chances are that you're pretty new around TNW. To say that TweetDeck is one of our favorites would be a huge understatement, but it's fitting.\r\n\r\nFor quite some time, we've been waiting for TweetDeck to appear on the Android OS. Apparently, that wait is almost over. We got a first look, today, at the TweetDeck for Android that will be rolling out tomorrow, and we've gotta say that it's pretty slick:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWe're assured that new features are going to be coming out in nightly builds, but for now, here's what's missing:\r\n\r\n\tImproved mapping\r\n\tBetter handling of mutliple Twitter accounts\r\n\tBetter error message handling\r\n\tVideo uploading\r\n\tDeeper Android integration\r\n\tAccount removal\r\n\r\nBeyond the missing parts, however, what you'll find is a TweetDeck experience that you're likely very familiar with, all on your phone.\r\n\r\nBy default, TweetDeck gives you a blended home column that is color-coded for the service the message comes from:\r\n\r\n\tBlack - Twitter\r\n\tDark Blue - Facebook\r\n\tLight Blue - Foursquare\r\n\tDark Red - Google Buzz\r\n\r\nWhile this is the default, you can choose to ad new columns to your liking. The Me column, however, is pretty handy. It gives you an overview of anything that contains activity from you, whether that's a Twitter reply, Facebook comments or Buzz activity, it's all in a single column.\r\n\r\nOverall the look of TweetDeck for Android is clean and really minimalist. In fact, there aren't even timestamps on Tweets. You'll find a clock at the top of the screen that will tell you when a message hit, and it works across all columns.\r\n\r\nMoving around and between columns is very clean without even a moment's hesitation on my original Droid. I'm a big fan of the Home column mode on Mobile, and it actually might make me consider it on my office computer as well.\r\n\r\nThe detail view of each message is really handy, as well. Here's what TweetDeck has to say:\r\nIn general, images, conversation, comments, attachments and geotags get decoded from Twitter, Facebook and Buzz updates and displayed below the update in the detail view. We've done this to provide a quick way to view all the cool content people are posting without having to dig deep with multiple clicks.\r\nIt really seems as if TweetDeck has come out full force with everything making sense. Contacts, Notifications, the Compose screen and even Maps all fall into place exactly where they feel like they should. Even while still in Beta, there aren't any glaring omissions that we found. It will be really exciting, moving forward, to see how the application gets its finishing touches.\r\n\r\nIf you want to get in on the beta, make sure that you have a TweetDeck account. It takes little more than an email address and a few seconds of your time via the TweetDeck site.\r\n\r\n[gallery link=&amp;quot;file&amp;quot; columns=&amp;quot;6&amp;quot; orderby=&amp;quot;title&amp;quot; exclude=&amp;quot;13569, 13559&amp;quot;]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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