
In case you missed it the first time around, TweetDeck Teams is the real killer addition among the bunch. The new feature allows a Twitter user who manages a given account to delegate access to as many others as they like, then remove that access when it’s no longer required. To do so, the process is fairly simple – the user selects the account they want to provide access to, then types in the name of the delegates to authorize. Those users then receive an email invite which they have to accept in order to join the team.
For companies who have multiple staffers managing their social media presence, the addition is a welcome change over the current process, which in the past has often involved the sharing of passwords directly. That can put a business’s Twitter account at risk, since end users can sometimes be careless with passwords – leaving them written down on post-it notes or in insecure spreadsheets, for example.
The feature was also notable as it was the first time that Twitter itself got around to offering its own solution to this security issue with software developed in-house.

And for those who subscribe to Dataminr, a real-time social media analysis engine used by financial institutions, news organizations, government agencies and others (which also just picked up $130 million in funding), the updated TweetDeck app will now support the ability for users to add columns and receive notifications of new alerts to their Dataminr watch lists.
Other minor bug fixes round out the update, which is rolling out now on the Mac App Store.