We are seeing a number of updates on Twitter urging users to download a file called "tweetdeck-08302010-update.exe" from a URL beginning with http://alturl.com/.

These tweets are from hacked accounts and this file does not come from us. Do not download it. 

Official updates are exclusively available at: http://www.tweetdeck.com/desktop/ To ensure your safety TweetDeck files should only be downloaded from this location.  Links to all the main official downloads are shown in the right-hand sidebar of our support site http://support.tweetdeck.com. If in doubt, only download from here or http://www.tweetdeck.com itself.

The updates often being with one of the following phrases:

1. TweetDeck will work until tomorrow, udate now!

2. Download TweetDeck udate ASAP! 

3. Update TweetDeck! 

4. Hurry up for tweetdeck update!

5. Sorry for offtopic, but it is a critical TweetDeck update. It won't work tomorrow! 

The Android TweetDeck Beta has been updated to v0.9.5 and can be downloaded from: http://www.tweetdeck.com/go/android

The 0.9.5 beta contains the following changes and additions:

• Full compatibility with all phones running 1.6 and above

• Added option to remove Facebook, Buzz, or Foursquare accounts

• Added option to delete tweets sent by you

• Improved handling and refined UI for Facebook and Google Buzz attachments

• Fixed bug preventing successful updates containing multiple photos 

• Added multi-Twitter account compose

• New "More" button on all Twitter user profiles and updates allowing

  • Reply All

  • Sharing

  • Translation

  • Copy update text

  • Copy update URL

• Tapping the header when at the top of the column will refresh that column

UPDATE 10:00am PST. Basic Auth is now DISABLED for good. Please read the article below for details of how this affects you.

UPDATE: Today is the day. Basic Auth will be disabled at 8am PST today, 31st August. You MUST update to a recent version of TweetDeck in order to keep using your Twitter account after this time

A while ago we alerted you to the fact that Twitter was ceasing support for "Basic Authentication" in their API. 

The current situation is this:

• API rate limits are currently decreasing every day for those clients still using basic auth
• On 31st August at 8am PST, basic auth will be turned off completely. At this time it will be impossible to access you Twitter account from a client that ONLY supports basic auth.

So, in order to continue using your Twitter account with TweetDeck from 31st August, you must be running at least the following versions, which all use xAuth:

• Desktop: v0.33 (but we would recommend getting the most recent version from tweetdeck.com)
• Desktop User Streams Preview: Any version
• iPhone: v1.4.1
• iPad: v1.03
• Android:  Any version

Twitter have a page on their Developer Portal about the basic auth switchoff, which contains more details

The User Streams Preview version of TweetDeck has been updated to v0.34.5.2

This release remains controlled by the User Streams whitelist and therefore only download this version if you have been confirmed as having access.
The application should prompt to update shortly.


Changed in this release:

ADDED: Workaround for bug in Facebook data

FIXED:  Stream could hang on bad connection

FIXED:  Some @replies to non-friends appear in All Friends

FIXED:  Map view for twitter places in stream not displaying correct data

FIXED: Bug in Buzz ordering