Twitter-Owned TweetDeck Kills Off Deck.ly, Users Can No Longer Send Messages Longer Than 140 Characters

It’s taken a while, but Twitter has finally focused its attention on not-so-recently purchased TweetDeck. And it’s attention comes in the form of an axe.

The first feature to get chopped from TweetDeck is its deck.ly app, which enabled users to tweet things longer than 140 characters by redirecting those interested in reading the extended post to a separate web page.

The announcement that deck.ly would no longer be available to TweetDeck users came, in proper Twitter fashion, in the form of a tweet:

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