Twitter Acquires TweetDeck for $40 Million
May 23rd, 2011 | By Kamil Abdullah in News, Rumors, Technology | No Comments »
Reports are coming in that everyone’s favorite site to post your thoughts in 140 characters or less, Twitter, has acquired TweetDeck, the uber popular desktop and mobile application that let’s users read tweets and post to twitter.
Twitter, ending months of rumor and speculation, has bought TweetDeck for a reported 40 million in stock and cash. It was reported in February that UberMedia, the company which owns UberSocial(which used to be called UberTwitter until Twitter forced them to change their name)and Twidroyd, both popular Twitter apps for Blackberry and Android respectively, offered $30 million for TweetDeck. In April, Twitter countered their offer with $50 million. Apparently, Twitter won out.






