Tweetdeck, one of the most popular Twitter clients, has raised $2 million in a previously undisclosed round of funding, according to angel investor John Borthwick. He revealed the funding at TechCrunch’s Real-Time Stream CrunchUp, during a panel discussion bewteen Michael Arrington, and investor Ron Conway.
Tweetdeck, which recently launched a TechCrunch-branded version, raised a small round of angel funding in January, estimated at $300,000. TweetDeck is available for Mac, Windows and Linux, it just requires Adobe AIR. The company has been working on getting more services integrated into its client. Last week, it launched an iPhone app that has been gaining popularity quickly.
Congrats Tweetdeck! Make sure you guys do great stuffs with the new money!
Where does this fall in line with the rumor that seesmic is acquiring tweetdeck?
Most unlikely with the new funding… Competition is graet
Loic confirmed it was a joke. See the updated note in an previous TC post
I guess you can disregard those Seesmic acquisition rumors that were floating around yesterday.
Well done Ian.. Spend the money wisely.. looking forward to all those new enhancements to Tweetdeck….
best
Mark Shaw
What, are all of the good Twitter clients not accepting funding or something? *rimshot*
Now I hope they can afford to hire some customer service people to monitor and respond to customer needs.
Community Manager will be our first hire.
where do i apply?
Correction: we raised several million DOLLARS not pounds
Dollars, pounds, sheckles whatever!
Great work TD!
AMAZING #.
How are they going to generate that much revenue?
“…it just requires Adobe AIR” yes, that’s why i’m not using it.
Hear hear! Voice of reason…
It`s the beginnig
Nice! Hopefully we’ll see some more TweetDeck products soon!
@don
Good question. Im sure the investors saw at least some potential in bringing that money back. Let’s hope their plans work. Good luck TweetDeck!
- James F.
has any twitter/friendfeed client made any money at all yet? (other than branded clients like the CrunchDeck one)
Tweetdeck should use the money to build a backend messaging system and therefore stop using Twitter.
Tweetdeck IS Twitters frontend IMO
Whoa! just curious… what happens if tweeters stops exposing its APIs
Then the VCs get what they deserve…
wow. .nice for twitter
Maybe this means TD will get sync to work reliably…