Twitter confirmed the acquisition of TweetDeck

Twitter finally announced that it had bought TweetDeck.

The deal was closed on Tuesday. Its price has not been disclosed, but according to TechCrunch and CNN, we are talking about more than 40 million dollars.
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This ends the story of the negotiations on the sale of TweetDeck. In February, the company wanted to buy UberMedia and the deal was almost completed when Twitter made a better deal. Twitter simply had to intervene in view of the fact that 13% of all tweets were sent via TweetDeck, and UberMedia already concentrated a number of twitter clients.

The Twitter blog emphasizes that TweetDeck users are important to Twitter as a very active audience. Twitter promises "to continue to invest in TweetDeck, which users know and love."

In other words: no, Twitter will not close TweetDeck. In addition, Twitter does not plan to rename TweetDeck, as it did with Tweetie, eventually renamed “Twitter for Mac”.

At the same time, according to Ian Dodsworth, CEO of TweetDeck, "changes may be inevitable." But the team itself will remain in the same squad in London.

With the addition of the TweetDeck team to Twitter, more than 500 employees now work. 505 to be exact.