{"id":744,"date":"2009-02-24T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T08:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2009-02-25T22:29:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T14:29:30","slug":"tweetdeck-users-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/social-networking\/tweetdeck-users-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"TweetDeck Users Read This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered a major problem that plagues Tweetdeck users who use the free Twitter client to access and post microblogging updates. TweetDeck is bugged by a fairly major issue which will require a solution pretty soon.<\/p>\n<p>Background: I&#8217;m an active Twitter user and have been using what I would consider the best Twitter client, TweetDeck, for a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>Sure it&#8217;s had some weird idiosyncrasies like having to shut it down so I could run more bandwidth-intensive applications or MMPOGs on my system, but on the whole, it&#8217;s been a pleasant experience (read my <a title=\"tweetdeck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/social-networking\/taking-twitter-to-the-next-level-with-tweetdeck\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier review<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I may or may not be the typical Tweetdeck user &#8211; here&#8217;re my usage habits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My computers are on 24-7. I run mainly Windows XP operating systems (a combination of Professional and Home editions). I reboot when virtual memory drops &#8220;dangerously low&#8221; or I get a BSOD (blue screen of death).<\/li>\n<li>I follow about 200+ Twitter users, some of whom tweet as many as 50 times a day or more.<\/li>\n<li>I live in a GMT+8 timezone (which is 13 hours ahead of EST now. My night is your day. I&#8217;m snoozing while you&#8217;re working)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a result, it&#8217;s not uncommon to wake up to 500+ tweets during the 6 hours I&#8217;m sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly today, my machine crawled to a grinding crawl, and pulling up the Windows Task Manager (hit alt-ctrl-delete to see this):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0902\/tweetdeck-memory-leak.jpg\" alt=\"tweetdeck memory leak\" width=\"367\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coming in at #1, TweetDeck with a pretty monstrous 334 MB of memory usage (followed by Firefox where I had about 30 tabs open).<\/p>\n<p>And a screenshot a few <!--more-->minutes later:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0902\/tweetdeck-memory-leak2.jpg\" alt=\"tweetdeck memory leak\" width=\"343\" height=\"129\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve had to shut TweetDeck down, as almost every other application was pretty unusable.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"dave davis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redflymarketing.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Davis AKA RedFly<\/a> mentioned that TweetDeck&#8217;s memory leak issue had been Dugg (the orig post has since been removed) though I found another <a title=\"memory leak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonblogger.com\/tag\/tweetdeck-memory-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post mentioning the leak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s speculation that the Adobe AIR runtime is responsible for the memory leak. Others are saying TweetDeck is the culprit.<\/p>\n<p>With some probing, I saw mentions on the <a title=\"tweetdeck blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tweetdeck.posterous.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TweetDeck posterous\/wall\/blog<\/a> or on TweetDeck founder\/developer Iain Dodsworth&#8217;s <a title=\"iain dodsworth\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/iaindodsworth\" target=\"_blank\">twitter stream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a user&#8217;s complaint that TweetDeck had swallowed 1.4 GB of ram, Iain responded: <span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">&#8220;yep will fix ASAP &#8211; in meantime just restart app to release memory and go back to starting memory usage amount&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Iain has also mentioned incremental upgrades are on the way with a major release scheduled soon. Hopefully, Iain will kill the memory problem dead.<\/p>\n<p>I still think TweetDeck is still the best fraking Twitter app out there, especially if you&#8217;re following more than 50 twitter users. The memory leak issue should be addressed soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> If you leave TweetDeck on 24-7, it looks like you can keep a maximum of 500 backlogged\/unread tweets, so there is a buffer for 500 tweets. As new ones come on, the old ones fall off your viewable page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"andrew wee\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewwee\" target=\"_blank\">Follow me on twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered a major problem that plagues Tweetdeck users who use the free Twitter client to access and post microblogging updates. TweetDeck is bugged by a fairly major issue which will require a solution pretty soon. 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