Twitter posted a short message about the acquisition on its blog and said the purchase would help Twitter continue to provide a powerful platform Highs and lows, accompanied by the constant thrill of never really knowing what to expect next.” He said the company quickly grew from one employee and one user to “a team of fifteen and a user-base Dodsworth said the creation of TweetDeck had been “an epic journey, with many In a blog post on the TweetDeck Web site, Mr. It was designed by Iain Dodsworth,Ī British designer and programmer who wanted to offer users a more useful view of their Twitter streams. TweetDeck, which was released in 2008, was one of the first major third-party Twitter applications to become popular with Twitter users. TweetDeck employees will also become full-time employees of Twitter. Remain available as a free separate download. The TweetDeck software will likely be rebranded to look more like Twitter’s other free applications - as Twitter has done with other software acquisitions - but the company said the software would TweetDeck is currently available as a free download for desktop computers, the iPhone, Google’s Android devices and the Google Chrome Web browser. According to people who had been briefed on the deal who were not authorized to speak publicly, Twitter agreed to pay about $40 million.
Screenshot via TweetDeck TweetDeck offers users a number of views of their Twitter accounts.Īfter days of speculation on technology blogs, Twitter officially announced Wednesday that it had agreed to acquire TweetDeck,Ī service that organizes Twitter feeds to make them more useful.
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