Twitter may acquire TweetDeck

By on Apr 18, 2011 at 11:29 PM
mobile April 18, 2011

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Twitter is in “advanced talks” to purchase TweetDeck — the popular desktop and mobile third-party Twitter client. The deal could be worth as much as $50 million, although neither party has commented on the possible acquisition. TweetDeck, based in the U.K, has 15 employees on its payroll. Twitter could use the acquisition to immediately offer a “native” Twitter client in the PC desktop space, especially if it has plans to begin targeting enterprise Twitter users. Although TweetDeck’s engineers have certainly proven that they have the developing chops to compete in the mobile space, too.

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  • Calvin Williams

    That’s what happens when you make quality products! Big boys get jealous!

    • Anonymous

      Damn right. I LOVE tweet deck. . . . BUTTTTT what will happen to the Facebook Integration if a buyout happens?

  • http://twitter.com/hooneyhova Hooney Heoh

    as long as they keep the EXACT SAME LAYOUT, THE EXACT SAME FUNCTIONALITY AND THE EXACT SAME UTILITY of TweetDeck, then I don’t care about the acquisition. (Obviously my opinion will be the most important to Twitter.)

    • Anonymous

      Funny that just 15 employees have come up with something better than what Twitter can offer.

      • http://twitter.com/benri Benoit Richard

        Twitter processes huge data! Tweetdeck is a user interface. That’s completely a different job.
        Twitter has not focused on user interface yet.

  • ApplesNAndroids

    NOOOO!

  • http://webhostingreview.info/linux-hosting/ smithon

    they can’t beat it so they are acquiring it

  • http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk online shopping uk

    In my opinion, if twitter is going to widen their market share, they are going to have to address the issue of how easy it is to spam users. As a marketer of one of the nations fastest growing computer repair companies, I obviously enjoy the interaction with users, however as a personal twitter User, I do not use twitter as often as I use Facebook, for that reason..

  • http://twitter.com/CrunchDude Crunch

    Just like Google bought YouTube 6 years ago, just like Google bought Grandcentral years ago and made it into Google Voice…and Google just struck again and bought another company before Apple could, which also wanted it. Forgot exactly what it’s called.

    You think the X-Box Kinect was invented by Microsoft? Nope. That was an Israeli company **looking to sell** its technology. They tried Apple first, but found them too “cumbersome” to deal with, so they tried two states up with MS, which jumped on the chance.

    Just to name a few…;-)

  • http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/discounts/johnlewis.com John Lewis Sales

    good decision twitter is more fun with tweet else their own interface is plain and boring

  • http://ibusinessprofessional.com video marketing

    TweetDeck for Android is much better app than Twitter for Android. I hope it survives

    • http://itrafficgeneration.com Internet business

      AgreeD..

  • Anonymous

    what took them so long. Twitdroyd is next!

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