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Twitter is going to force everyone who uses TweetDeck to switch over to the \u201cnew\u201d version to help mitigate some of the issues TweetDeck has been experiencing lately. I used quotes around \u201cnew\u201d because the experience has been in preview for nearly two years<\/a>, but according to a Twitter employee<\/a>, \u201crecent changes\u201d have broken the legacy version of the app and will mean that the company will migrate everyone to the updated experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Twitter employees have also shared some slight clarifications about what\u2019s going on with TweetDeck at the moment. For many on the old interface, TweetDeck is largely useless right now; all of my columns are just spinning with a \u201cLoading…\u201d message, and my colleagues saw something similar as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While the empty columns popped up after Twitter began rate-limiting tweets<\/a>, according to the Twitter employees, those rate limits aren\u2019t actually causing the problems with old TweetDeck. Instead, the employees claim that the issues are because of Twitter removing legacy APIs to prevent data scraping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The work to force the switch will begin \u201cthis week,\u201d that employee said<\/a>, and in replies, people are imploring that Twitter \u201cplease don\u2019t.\u201d<\/a> I can\u2019t blame them \u2014 I remember not liking the TweetDeck Preview when I tried it out in 2021, and neither did my colleague Sean Hollister<\/a>. I\u2019m don\u2019t know how much the preview may have changed since then, and I hope Twitter has improved it for the better, but I\u2019m not optimistic; Twitter\u2019s TweetDeck account hasn\u2019t said a word since August<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When reached for comment, Twitter\u2019s press email auto-replied with a poop emoji, as it as been doing since March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n