Twitter has completed their acquisition of TweetDeck, one of the most popular clients for the microblogging service.
The purchase ended for just over $40 million in cash and stock with the closing papers signed today.
TweetDeck had been previously linked to UberMedia, who was looking to purchase the client for $30 million and had an exclusive negotiating window that ran out. Uber has the top Twitter app for BlackBerry (UberSocial) and the “highest rated” Twitter app for Android, Twidroyd and has been allegedly cooking up a plan for a “Twitter killing” service.
As arguably the best Twitter client around (and accounting for 13 percent of all tweets sent on a daily basis), TweetDeck is a hot commodity for the microblogging platform and remains the top app for “power users,” those who tweet many times per day from many different devices.
TweetDeck also allows users to connect their LinkedIn and Facebook platforms to one app.
Result for: power users
According to a Waffles.fm post, the private music tracker has banned one of their “power users” after it was found that he was selling invites on the auction site eBay.
From the post, “Thanks to a cooperative effort with staff at what.cd, we’ve busted one of our own well-known members for selling invites on eBay. towelie, aka shad0w on what.cd, eBay username sueles810 has been banned, along with all of his invitees.”
Staff from both sites have long said they are scouring the Internet for users trying to profit off the site, and this member made it pretty obvious. All staff had to do was purchase the invite from the eBay auction and then see what nickname had invited them after they joined.
There is no word on whether it was all of the user’s “direct” invitees there were banned or everyone in his invite tree but chances are everyone was, unfortunately.
