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Twitter Buys Tweetie App Maker AteBits

Apr 9, 2010, 10:30 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Today Twitter disclosed that it has purchased a company called AteBits. AteBits developed the popular Tweetie application for Twitter both on the desktop and the iPhone. Twitter said that Tweetie will become the first official Twitter client application, and it plans to make the application available for free. Previously the app cost $2.99. It will be renamed Twitter for iPhone. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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flip mode

Apr 10, 2010, 3:24 PM

They should just license...

the likeness and rights to use Tweety from Looney Tunes (Warner Brothers) as the image of the company logo. that would be nice.

lukasaltar

nice thoght.

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mycool

Apr 11, 2010, 9:27 PM

why?

Why would they just not develop a native app themselves? Why go out and buy up a company? Makes no sense... obviously they have a development team... this is just strange.

And, the big reason I ask why is because the Twitter API is so small... there isn't a ton of API calls! It's a tiny tiny app compared to other stuff out there (FB, MySpace, etc).

bluecoyote

Apr 9, 2010, 10:55 PM

Don't get Soundjam'd

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, Tweetie for free is excellent.

On the other, this is going to hurt 3rd party Twitter clients (such as Twitterriffic) or dilute Tweetie's advantage over other clients as well.

Jayshmay

Sometimes I wonder whatever happened to email/I'M. What exactly is so great about twitter, essentially it's no different than txt msg, it's limited to 160 characters.
I feel the same way about MySpace & Facebook, why isn't email good enough, pictures...
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Twitter Buys Tweetie App Maker AteBits

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