Twitter is within conversations towards purchase Tweet Deck Inc. for $50 million, according towards the Wall Street Journal.
Tweet Deck is one of the most popular third-party Twitter consumers, available within desktop, iPad, iPhone and Android versions. It displays your Twitter news feed, @mentions and organise letters, along with your Facebook feeds — everybodyonto the equivalent screen, everybody updating within actual time. Tweet Deck can also cooperation updates from MySpace, LinkedIn and Foursquare.
The 15-person corporate, based within the U.K., has never revealed how a lot users Tweet Deck has. The number may be low— but it is also necessarily towards incorporate the most obsessive power users within cultural media.
The inform arrives days as soon as CNN reported that UberMedia, the corporate rear Twitter consumers Echo fon and Twidroyd, was working onto a potential Twitter competitor. Earlier this year, TechCrunch reported that Uber Media was within conversations to purchase Tweet Deck for $30 million.
Since that inform, both companies possess been tight-lipped regarding any type of acquisition.
If Twitter were towards acquire Tweet Deck, it could cut down onto the number of power users that Bermudian is glancing towards fetch into its competing service. Whether or not the acquisition goes across, this news could be sighted as Twitter flaming a shot across UberMedia’s decks.
