Twitter may be planning to make TweetDeck a paid feature according to security researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who has discovered code and web pages designed to prevent non-paying users from accessing it.
TweetDeck was originally a standalone app later acquired by Twitter, aimed at power users and helping them manage and organize their feeds, send and receive tweets and direct messages, and view profiles like other clients of the platform. TweetDeck can be used on desktop browsers, or through the TweetDeck apps for Chrome and macOS.
Twitter is filling up the new Tweet embed The subscription page they are working on. Two new features:
1. Link to “Old version of TweetDeck” (although it may be discontinued at some point in the future)
2. An “ad-free experience” is marketed as a selling point: P https://t.co/XP6sYsTUGM pic.twitter.com/fRc0ujZ7o2
– Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 30, 2022
Twitter Blue is Twitter’s paid subscription service that costs $2.99 per month and is currently available in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. A subscription gives users access to features such as Undo Tweet and NFT profile photos for subscribed iOS users.
Wong discovered a code designed to redirect users without Twitter Blue to a registration page that advertises TweetDeck as a “effective, real-time tool for people who live on Twitter” with an ad-free experience. According to Wong, the page also contained a link designed to send users to an older version of TweetDeck.
Although Twitter hasn’t explicitly stated that they will make TweetDeck a paid feature, there have been previous reports about the company planning to build a paid version of the same app.
Although the page that Wong discovered suggests an ad-free experience, Twitter Blue is not ad-free. In its service FAQ, Twitter justifies this by saying it needs to continue running ads on Twitter Blue to offset the increased operating cost of adding layers to the platform experience.
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