No big surprise here. Twitter’s finally confirmed it’s purchasing TweetDeck for $US40 million. Twitter now owns one of the top Twitter and social network clients on the planet. Let’s hope they don’t trash the columns. (And keep it open to other social networks LinkedIn, Facebook and FourSquare, guys.) [CNN Money via TechMeme]
This was inevitable: Twitter’s buying TweetDeck, meaning it’ll own the predominant Twitter apps on basically every platform. What that means for innovation in the ways people access Twitter, we’ll have to see. (Personally, I hope it means there’s gonna be a version of TweetDeck not written with Adobe AIR.) [TechCrunch]
iOS: Popular Twitter app TweetDeck for iPhone has released a new version, completely rebuilt from the ground up to be faster, sleeker and more efficient. Older versions of Tweetdeck have been temporarily removed from the iTunes App Store. More »
…everywhere except IE9 and Opera. But all the rest are invited to sign up for a closed beta of TweetDeck’s no-download-needed HTML5 client. The features and UI are the same as the Chrome plug-in (sans streaming). [TweetDeck via TechCrunch]
As promised, the public beta for the Android version of TweetDeck is up and running. It looks quite nice! You can ogle some more screenshots and sign up for the beta over on the company’s blog. [TweetDeck]
The much-loved Twitter client for desktops, iPhones and iPads is going to be available for Android phones from this week via a public beta testing release, letting Android users follow people but not actually read their tweets, via the crafty use of columns. [Tweetdeck via AndroidAndMe]
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Whoa! My head is spinning after watching this video demo of a TweetDeck beta release which uses Twitters new user stream API. It lets you watch people replying, retweeting or favouriting tweets in real time. Amazing. More »
Porting apps from iPhone to iPad isn’t just resizing all your assets, your app needs to be re-adjusted to use the larger space and how your fingers don’t cover up one-fifth of the screen when in use. TweetDeck does this. More »
