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A No-Brainer Move for Twitter: Buying TweetDeck

By Mark Evans | Published: May 3, 2011
It was probably the worst-kept secret within the technology and social media worlds but Twitter has acquired Tweetdeck for $40-million to $50-million, according to Techcrunch. The deal makes complete sense because Twitter.com as a way to read and write tweets is a no-frills platform that loses many people once they get some experience and start [...]
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Twitter-Tweetdeck: A Perfect Marriage

By Mark Evans | Published: April 19, 2011
In February when it appeared that Bill Gross’ Ubermedia had purchased Tweetdeck, the most popular third-party service to use Twitter, it seemed like a huge coup for Ubermedia and a major strategic blunder by Twitter. With about 5% of the market for people looking read and publish tweets, Tweetdeck was the biggest prize for anyone [...]
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TweetBot Plants Stake on the iPhone

By Mark Evans | Published: April 18, 2011
I have tried lots of Twitter applications for the iPhone although not Twitter’s own iPhone application. So far, the standard has been TweetDeck because it’s easy to use and provides a nice snapshot of all conversations. If Tweetdeck has any limitations, it is small things such as the ability to edit retweets. But all in [...]
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Why Twitter.com Still Stucks

By Mark Evans | Published: February 18, 2011
Earlier this week, TechCrunch had a post about how Twitter is wondering why more people don’t use Twitter.com. The answer is simple: it still sucks. If I wanted to be more polite, I would say the features pale in comparison with other options such as HootSuite, Seesmic, TweetDeck, Brizzly…and the list goes on. So why [...]
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Why Didn’t Twitter Buy TweetDeck?

By Mark Evans | Published: February 12, 2011
One of the games that Twitter-watchers like playing is creating lists of the company’s potential acquisitions now that it has oodles of venture capital cash sitting in a bank. The lists includes companies such as TweetDeck, TwitPic, TwitVid, Seesmic and HootSuite. Well, we can cross TweetDeck off the list now that it has been purchased [...]
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