Twitter - X Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Twitter’s new beta TweetDeck is so bad I’m ready to ragequit All users will be forced to switch over to the new version, according to two Twitter employees, and those staffers have also shared some slight clarifications about what’s been going on with old TweetDeck. For many on the old interface, TweetDeck has been useless recently; when I wrote this story, all of my columns were just spinning with a “Loading...” message, and my colleagues saw something similar as well. While the empty columns popped up after Twitter began rate-limiting tweets, according to the Twitter employees, those rate limits aren’t actually causing the problems with old TweetDeck. Instead, the employees claim that the issues are because of Twitter removing legacy APIs to prevent data scraping. “Rate limits only apply to new TweetDeck and Twitter,” wrote one employee. “Legacy TweetDeck uses legacy APIs and those have been removed to reduce scraping.” Another tweeted that the issues are “definitely not related to the rate limit.” A collection of tweets from Twitter employees about the changes to TweetDeck. Screenshots by Jay Peters / The Verge The work to force the switch will begin “this week,” that employee said, and in replies, people are imploring that Twitter “please don’t.” I can’t blame them — I remember not liking the TweetDeck Preview when I tried it out in 2021, and neither did my colleague Sean Hollister. I don’t know how much the preview may have changed now that it’s officially released, and I hope Twitter has improved it for the better, but I’m not optimistic; Twitter’s TweetDeck account hasn’t said a word since August. (And as I write this, it still hasn’t, despite Monday’s news.) When reached for comment, Twitter’s press email auto-replied with a poop emoji, as it has been doing since March. Update July 3rd, 6:32PM ET: Twitter is officially launching the new TweetDeck and making it a Twitter Blue-only feature. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Jay Peters