The launch and resulting success of TweetDeck starting in the summer of 2008 surprised everyone, including the application's founder, Iain Dodsworth, who is reported tonight to be selling the product to Ubermedia for as much as $30 million - culminating a two and a half year journey from complete obscurity to a position where his product is recognized as one of the most innovative social and communication dashboards on the Web - the standard tool used from casual users to businesses and newsrooms alike. By this time, TweetDeck was clearly a big deal. TweetDeck Seesmic Twitter VC MORE >>

Tweet Tuesday this week, the deal between Twitter and Tweetdeck was sealed. There have been rumours of the acquisition for several months now, but finally it was made official: Tweetdeck will be joining Twitter. Tweetdeck has so far existed as one of the leading third-party Twitter desktop applications. According to Tweetdeck CEO Iain Dodsworth, the Tweetdeck development team will continue to work largely independent and stay in London with the same focus and products. It provides a dashboard for monitoring and organizing your Twitter profile and feeds. MORE >>

For quite some time Tweetdeck was my preferred choice when it came to social media management software. And for awhile Tweetdeck was meeting my needs, but I just grew increasingly more frustrated with performance issues with the Adobe Air platform. It certainly doesn’t suffer from the slow downs I experienced with Tweetdeck. So here is my short list of things so far that have me loving Hootsuite vs Tweetdeck: Tabs – Love the tabs. Web Based – Actually faster performance then Tweetdeck’s desktop application. Short Link & Monitoring – Love the ow.ly MORE >>

Tweetdeck. Social Media Socialnomics cotweet klout radian6 seesmic tweetdeckWe all know the three most popular social media apps in our toolkit are: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. But what else are companies using to have an edge and be more efficient and productive in their social media efforts? How are they actually Tweeting? How are they monitoring? Here are five tools that were found to be popular and widely used among brands and businesses! Cotweet. Companies that use it: Whole foods. This is what I’ve read through other sources. Radian6. Contact Sales for more info. . MORE >>

have three monitors, one of which is covered wall-to-wall with TweetDeck. TweetDeck has six columns, with my main stream, mentions, my favorite list, direct messages, a search column (currently on #Buckeyes ), and favorites. If you want to be taken seriously, start using serious tools, such as TweetDeck or Hootsuite. Social Media Twitter Brian Meeks Hootsuite Tweetdeck twitter brand pages twitter for tweetingToday’s guest post is written by Brian Meeks. Twitter introduces brand pages. Some people say it will be a game changer. Those people are idiots. MORE >>