Anyone who's in a position to use Tweetdeck instead of Twitter's web UI will find a free, Twitter-maintained, product with no annoying algorithms and no advertising.

It's the version of Twitter targeted at newsrooms, etc.

I assume a lot of people already know and have reasons why they don't... but likely not everyone here has tried it so it may be worth repeating.

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

Wow--this exists?

I had heard of Tweetdeck, but I assumed that it was a third-party client which provided a better experience and was therefore at odds with Twitter's interests. You're telling me that, not only is Twitter okay with it, but that they built it?

> but that they built it?

It was independent then Twitter bought it.

The original TweetDeck was an Adobe AIR application. Twitter bought it, and then rewrote it as a website. So it could be argued that they built it.

There were alternatives before such as Seesmic, no idea how they work now, if they still do.

This has evolved quite a bit since I last tried it - thanks for the reminder!

It says I have messages, but I don't seem to have figured out how to view them.

Click the + and add a "notification" column.