The TweetDeck iPhone app has been updated and v1.1 is available in the AppStore now!

You can read our blog post here which explains all the new functionality, but some of the highlights are:

• Facebook integration

• Video uploads

• Landscape keyboard option

• Twitter Trends

• Tweets Nearby column

• Open links in Safari

• Save updates as draft

• Share your location

• Address Picker for easier @replies

Here's a video that explains some of these new features:

 

 

Full changelog for TweetDeck iPhone app v1.1

 

Major Enhancements

Trends - ability for a user to look at popular twitter trends and turn them into a search column

Tweets Nearby - ability to create a search column of tweets nearby based on the users geolocation. The user can optional change the search radius and add a query term

Sent Twitter DM's - add a column of sent twitter direct messages

HashTag to Search Column - when viewing a tweet detail hash tags will be highlighted as links and the user will have a popup option to add that hash tag as search column

bit.ly account support - User can optional add their bitly account information (username & api key) and all links shortened to bitly will be automatically saved to their history.

Reply to All - When viewing a tweet detail if there are @mentions in the message when a user hits reply they will be give an option to just reply to the sender or all mentioned in the tweet including the sender

RE (in reference to) - a new button for tweet detail. When the user clicks this link it will create a shortened link of the url to the status and include it in the new message.

Open in safari - a button in the internal browser window that allows the user to open the viewed web page in safari

Landscape Compose - a button the the status compose window that allows a user to rotate the orientation of the window to bring up the landscape keyboard

URI - support for other applications and web pages to launch the iPhone tweetdeck app with the url "tweetdeck://"

Twitter Address Picker - an address book of recent twitter addresses that is sortable alphabetically or by how much the user uses that address in outgoing tweets

Compose Improvement - Optional save message as draft if the users cancels out of the message without sending it. Ability to clear all the text of the message.

List of recent hashtags - When a user puts a hash tag in a sent message that hashtag is save to a list of recent hash tags for use later available as a "#" button from the compose window.

Cross Posting Support - Ability for a user to post to multiple twitter accounts at once as well as facebook. This includes support for taking attached photos that are shortened urls (i.e. twitpic.com/4wef) and uploading them to facebook as photo with the status update as a caption.

Themes - a light and dark theme.

TweetPhoto - support for tweetphoto as a picture upload service

Upload Photo Scaling - a preference to turn off scaling down photos before uploading to a picture service (FB photos are never scaled)

Swipe Buttons - a preference to turn on the arrow buttons for swiping - they are off by default now

Popup Alerts (Growl) - they are set to off by default now

Default Accounts - If a user has multiple accounts they can now set which account will be selected by default when they launch the compose window.

Email - Send tweets as email without leaving app for 3.0+ users

 

Facebook

Account support - ability to add a facebook account in either the first use registration wizard or through the account/settings window

Stream - Adding a users "All Friends" as column

Groups - Creating a group of facebook users as a column

Group Syncing - Automatic syncing of facebook group to the the TweetDeck server

Comments - Ability to view comments on a post as well as add your own comment

Write on Wall - Ability to send a message to a user by writing on their wall

Like - Add a like to an item on friend stream

View Photos - View photos attached to a stream item.

 

Video

12 seconds Video Upload - allows users with the iphone 3gs to upload videos in their message -- if a video is attached to a message it will append the status update with a tiny12 url of the video

Facebook Video Upload - if a video is attached to the message -- the video will upload to facebook with the status as a caption.

Background upload - Ability to continue a post update / media upload in background from compose window

 

Bug Fixes

DM messages - when viewing a DM message the @reply button are hidden.

Twitter Favorites - improved Twitter "favourite" status management

General Stability Improvements

Tweet Caching - Loaded Tweets are saved on exit

Faster Scrolling on zoomed column View.

Added URL in web display.