TweetDeck down…

I've been using Twitter for almost a year, and for most of that time I've avoided the website (fantastic idea… horrible implementation) and have used TweetDeck to manage my Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn feeds at once. I loved TweetDeck because it was easy to use, intuitive and came with a lot more features than the Twitter website provides for. Unfortunately I suffered a power cut a few days ago and since then TweetDeck won't work for me. It loads, I can post updates from it… but I can't see any of the columns I used to watch.

I've tried reinstalling it, rebooting the computer, rebooting the program, but none of them have helped. For a day or two I tried going back to Twitter's own website – afterall, that should be everything I need, right? Wrong. With a cluttered display, no ability to easily access multiple feeds at once, having to click from tab to tab to see whether someone has replied to me rather than broadcast to the world it's very cumbersome. Not to mention the lack of features (embedded video, link shortening, running in the background) that TweetDeck did. So, on the suggestion of @RobMay I've tried Seesmic. Once I've had the chance to thoroughly test it I'll write a comparative report but initial gut feeling is not positive…