I just realized how reliant on the desktop I am for TweetDeck for both my @ryankeefer and more so my @closetnascarfan accounts. I do 90% of my Twitter stuff through that one app. I came back from lunch, and found I was locked out of Tweetdeck — both desktop app and via the browser. Pretty quickly, I realized there was something bigger afoot.

Tweetdeck Virus / Coding Hack Ripping Through Twitter

So the TweetDeck service is down. Hopefully the outage is short-lived, but I feel so inadequate on Twitter without my multiple columns TweetDeck offers up. Hope they can fix it shortly.