Twitter said Monday that it is discontinuing support for an array of TweetDeck mobile apps to focus on its Web-based versions of its social media dashboard application.

The TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android, and TweetDeck for iPhone apps “will be removed from their respective app stores in early May and will stop functioning shortly thereafter,” the company said on the TweetDeck by Twitter blog(Opens in a new window). Twitter will also be ending support for TweetDeck’s Facebook integration.

Twitter acquired TweetDeck in May 2011. The company gave its Web- and PC-based TweetDeck application a makeover last October, bringing design enhancements, personalization options, and other features.

The new development path for TweetDeck appears focused heavily on an integration with Google’s Chrome browser. Twitter highlighted developments with Chrome as well as the October refresh of the TweetDeck dashboard in announcing the end of TweetDeck for mobile.

“Over the past 18 months, we’ve been focused on building a fast and feature-rich Web application for modern browsers, and a Chrome app, which offers some unique features like notifications. We’ve recently introduced many enhancements to these apps—a new look and feel, tools like search term autocomplete and search filters to help you find what you’re looking for more quickly, and automatically-updating Tweet streams so you immediately see the most recent Tweets,” Twitter said.

While at least one media outlet reporting on the news described the move as Twitter putting TweetDeck “out to pasture,” the company said its users had dictated the decision. Twitter also said its TweetDeck team is “still hiring.”

“Over the past few years, we’ve seen a steady trend towards people using TweetDeck on their computers and Twitter on their mobile devices,” Twitter said. The company added that version 1.0 of Twitter’s API, which TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android, and TweetDeck for iPhone were built on, is being retired in March.

As a result of “occasional tests that will affect applications that rely on API v1.0,” the company also warned users of TweetDeck apps being ended that they “may experience some outages with those apps before they are removed from their respective app stores in early May.”

For more, check out PCMag’s review of the desktop version of TweetDeck and the slideshow above.