Twitter产品负责人Kayvon Beykpour周二在接受Verge杂志采访时表示，Twitter正在积极地对TweetDeck平台进行一次“大检修”，它可以让你排列列表，并将信息输入易于阅读的垂直行，并计划在今年晚些时候公开分享更多关于该项目的信息。

TweetDeck是最古老的，也是最早的第三方账户管理应用程序之一，多年来在设计和主要功能方面都没有太大变化。这个应用程序在12年前推出，2011年被Twitter收购，它或多或少仍然是Twitter各种feed的专栏查看器。大多数情况下，Twitter在保持核心TweetDeck设计相对静态的同时，向其主要网站和移动应用程序添加了新功能。

这似乎正在改变。Beykpour和产品团队认识到他们“最近没有给TweetDeck太多的爱”，他们正在积极开发一款新的TweetDeck，计划在今年晚些时候展示。这是一个更广泛的推动，以改善Twitter的开发工具，并修复其与应用程序**商的关系，后者是Twitter和更广泛的软件开发社区之间的长期竞争。（Beykpour的回答没有具体说明新的TweetDeck是在今年发布，还是只是面向公众预览。）

以下是Beykpour对TweetDeck的完整回应：

Nilay Patel: The Verge’s newsroom runs on TweetDeck.

Beykpour: Totally. And we haven’t given TweetDeck a lot of love recently. That’s about to change; we’ve been working on a pretty big overhaul from the ground up of TweetDeck, and it’s something that we’re excited to share publicly sometime this year. And so that’s just an example of a Twitter-owned and operated service that we will continue investing in. We also, over the last five years, I think, haven’t given a lot of love to our developer ecosystem. A bunch of reas*** for that, some missteps that we’d taken in the past, then also sort of prioritization. We are also changing that; in the last year and a half we’ve really stepped up both our commitment and follow-through on just innovating around the API again, getting the API back to parity from our own internal APIs that we use to build functionality.

I think we’ve got a lot of trust to earn back with developers, since we’ve made a lot of mistakes in the past, but it’s something that we’re actively investing in. We hope we’ll allow developers to build really awesome stuff around the Twitter ecosystem. One of the reas*** why Twitter is where it is today is because of developers doing cool shit that we would’ve never thought to do. And so that’s something that we’re trying to do more of, not step away from. More to come on that as well.

现在还不清楚这个新的TweetDeck是否会采用全新的视觉设计，全新的功能，或者两者兼而有之。Twitter是否计划最终对TweetDeck收费也有待商榷；彭博社（Bloomberg）上个月的一份报告称，TweetDeck正酝酿推出一款高级版本的TweetDeck，可以收取订阅费。

无论新应用采用何种形式，对于TweetDeck的长期用户（包括我自己）来说，都将是一股新鲜空气，他们至少想要一层新的涂料。