Tweetdeck is the flagship desktop Twitter tool people love to use and today they pushed out an update that left me a bit confused so…I made a video!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HAhKymDcwc[/youtube]

Tweetdeck (version 0.30.5)  is aiming to save you time when you’re posting your tweets and they have 2 cool features I share in the video:

You can now paste links directly into the post area and Tweetdeck will automagically shorten them

You can drag photos into the post area and Tweetdeck will upload them to TwitPic

They have a few alternate URL shortening and image hosting options but my preferences are Bit.ly for url’s and Twitpic for image hosting.  With the bit.ly service, you can add in your username and API key so the click traffic can be tracked via your bit.ly account.  Sweet!

Nice job Tweetdeck!