Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Twitter wants to buy Tweetdeck for $ 50 million

The micro-site will buy TweetDeck Twitter messages, a management services of the most popular accounts, reports Techcrunch, Monday, May 2 The amount of the transaction amount between 40 and 50 million dollars (between 27 and 33.7 million euros), as the specialized site, announcing that the formalization should take place "in the coming days." A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal had reported talks between the two companies.

Asked by Reuters, declined to Twitter comments. TweetDeck has at least "fifteen employees and temporary", most of whom work in Britain, according to its Web site. The company provides a customer to manage the flow of various social networks: Twitter, Facebook, but also the site of geolocation Foursquare.

A strategic acquisition of TechCrunch's announcement comes as relations with ÜberMedia Twitter stretch, the designer of several customers for the system of micro-posts. ÜberMedia was also reportedly in negotiations to buy out TweetDeck. And according to CNN, the group is even considering creating its own micro-site messages.

According Sysomos firm, which analyzed 25 million tweets in March, 58% of posts are from official applications, and 42% of non-official. TweetDeck represents 13.1% of applications unofficial behind Ubersocial (16.4%).

No comments:

Post a Comment