TweetDeck might become a paid Twitter Blue feature
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XPAY)
It'd be a big selling point for the subscription service. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It's starting to look like the upcoming version of TweetDeck, the power-user-focused version of the Twitter app, won't be free. Security researcher Jane Manchun Wong has discovered a work-in-progress sign-up page for the app, which boasts that it's a powerful, real-time tool for people who live on Twitter" and offers an ad-free experience.
While the page doesn't explicitly say you'll have to pay Twitter to access TweetDeck, companies don't usually advertise helps you avoid the thing that makes us money" as a feature of free products (even if, like the current version of TweetDeck, it is). And wouldn't you know it, Twitter's already got a paid subscription service that it's trying to sell to its power users.
TweetDeck is essentially...