Do I Hear $50 million? This Bidding War Is About Tweetdeck?s High-End Users

Talk about swings and roundabouts. In this case, Silicon Roundabouts. For Tweetdeck holds a special place in the growing galaxy of London tech startups and news today that it is still 'in play' as an acquisition target is fascinating. Back in February we reported - pretty confidently - that UberMedia had acquired Tweetdeck for $30m, although no party had released any official statement. If true then this would have given Bill Gross? company, after buying EchoFon, another popular Twitter client, 20% of the userbase of Twitter. Tweetdeck reportedly has 11% of active Twitter users. But oh what users they are.

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