TweetDeck — now with more awesome!

In the wig­gly world of Twit­ter apps, com­pet­i­tion is get­ting pretty tight between the lead­ing desktop con­tenders; Tweet­Deck, See­smic, and new-kid-on-the-block Mixero.

Today Tweet­Deck launched their latest update, with some pleas­ant sur­prises:

• Con­ver­sa­tion win­dow — View an entire dia­logue all at once.
• Video play­back — Watch Qik or 12seconds video clips from the com­fort of TweetDeck.
• New ‘Block & Report Spam’ but­ton — Just one click will delete the mes­sage from view, block the user and report them to Twitter.
• Tweet­Deck Recom­mends column — Find new and inter­est­ing people to fol­low wheth­er you’re a Twit­ter new­bie or a vet­er­an of the Twitterverse.
• ‘Reply All’ — Tweet every­one men­tioned in a tweet in just a couple of clicks.
• YFrog — Share and pre­view YFrog pho­tos inside TweetDeck.
• Smart fil­ter – Start typ­ing a user­name to find a per­son and add them to a group quickly and easily.
• RE (In ref­er­ence to) tweets – Eas­ily com­ment on a discussion.

But the two biggest sur­prises for me were an iPhone / iPod Touch ver­sion, and the abil­ity to Sync your vari­ous install­a­tions of Tweet­Deck, so you can keep your group and search pan­els between work and home.

I’ve not had the time to give this ver­sion of Tweet­Deck a full workout yet, but I’m look­ing for­ward to doing just that, and maybe com­par­ing it with Mixero and SeesMic…all three have their dis­tinct benefits.

But, if you’ve not yet upgraded, or even tried Tweet­Deck as your desktop Twit­ter cli­ent, do it now. You won’t be disappointed.