More useful to me is TweetDeck's expanded and customizable column design. Past versions of the application defaulted to a display of three columns; while you could add more, doing so wasn't a quick and easy fix. The new TweetDeck displays eight columns by default, which I found a bit much, but it was easy enough to delete a column by clicking on its heading and selecting the "Delete" option.

What's more impressive is the new Column Navigator, which sits at the top of the screen and makes customizing the layout quick and easy. If you want to add more columns, a click of the column navigator lets you do so. This navigator also lets you skip between columns without scrolling, which is a nice touch if you want to keep your TweetDeck populated with lots of info.

TweetDeck retains the impressive feature set that has long made it a favorite of power Twitter users. While it still doesn't offer any true Twitter analytics, TweetDeck does let  you manage an unlimited number of Twitter accounts--though it still limits you to one Facebook account, unfortunately. It also lets you schedule tweets and Facebook updates for future posting, and makes it easy to post an update to single or multiple accounts at once.

One noticeable bug in the current version of TweetDeck: It stumbles when attempting to post tweets with photos. When I tried to schedule a Tweet with a photo, the text appeared on time, but no photo was attached. A Twitter spokesperson says the "the current version of TweetDeck is not able to schedule Tweets with photos," but did not say when this feature would be working.