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Warning about tweetdeck beta!

Rhysd2

Well-Known Member
Jan 11, 2010
152
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Near Bristol
After installing tweetdeck on my phone I let it run for about a day and a half. However after that short time I noticed my battery was suffering quite badly. So I took a look around my stats and also noticed that in that short time the program had used no less than 74mb of data!!! I rang my colleague who also installed it and he found it had used 100mb. And a fair bit of battery.

He has a nexus one I have a milestone. We went sniffing around their forums and found a few other users complaining of the same issue. So we've uninstalled for now. We've posted something up on their forum but as of yet no reply. Needless to say that sort of data usage is unacceptable. Especially when alot of carriers are getting rid of unlimited plans.
 
I'm normally on WiFi for the majority of the time but this weekend I was out and about for about 8 hours and used roughly 2mb of data during that time, that includes FB, Gmail, weather and checking the football scores online. No idea why it would be different for me when you and 2 others have seen massive increases in data usage.
 
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I have 90 odd followers and follow over 100 people so I'd have thought there would have been a fair bit of activity. I would have said that maybe it was because I was in Ikea where there's no signal but it would have still pushed the data through when I was back in the car. Very odd but I will definitely keep an eye on it now. Cheers for the heads-up.
 
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