Twitter Reportedly in "Advanced Talks" to Buy TweetDeck
Twitter Reportedly in "Advanced Talks" to Buy TweetDeck
Posted 04/18/2011 at 2:33pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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A preliminary report from the Wall Street Journal claims that Twitter is in "advanced talks" to buy the popular Twitter client TweetDeck for $50 million. Neither company is talking, but The Journal apparently has multiple sources on the matter. If true, Twitter will have taken yet another step toward controlling the application ecosystem for their platform.
TweetDeck has approximately 15 full time and contracted employees, mostly based in the UK. Twitter acquired popular mobile and Mac client Tweetie last year, and quickly branded them as the official clients. A TweetDeck buy could result in a new official desktop app aimed at the Windows segment. TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR app, and does work cross-platform.
Twitter recently suggested developers stop making clients for the service, so this possible acquisition is all the more interesting. By having an official presence on all platforms, Twitter could more easily make the argument that other apps are not needed. Are you a TweekDeck user? How do you feel about this news?
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Dynotaku
April 19, 2011 at 10:44am
I don't know that I would have ever started using Twitter without tweetdeck. What I don't get is how does twitter make money, and how does having an official client help them, and how can that be worth $50M to them? Twitter is popular because of all the ways people can connect to it. I can't imagine even 50% of users primarily use twitter.com as their primary interface.
codepath
April 19, 2011 at 7:02am
I tried the Windows and iPhone versions and both sucked. I liked the idea of having "one client to rule them all" but I just hated TweetDeck. Hated the UI. Hated the integration of Facebook and others.
No thanks to TweetDeck. Pass.
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