10 Facts About TweetDeck

1.

TweetDeck is a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter accounts.

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2.

Originally an independent app, TweetDeck was acquired by Twitter Inc and integrated into Twitter's interface.

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3.

September 15, 2011 – TweetDeck tweeted that new updates for all versions would be released and that "As part of the process of making TweetDeck more consistent with Twitter.

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4.

All unofficial variants of TweetDeck stopped working in early May 2013 because of more restrictive API version 1.

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5.

June 11, 2014 – A cross-site scripting vulnerability in TweetDeck was discovered, leading to a self-replicating tweet that affected over 83, 000 Twitter users.

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6.

Originally, as it is, TweetDeck was aimed towards the Twitter social networking service.

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7.

In May 2010 TweetDeck added integration with the Google Buzz and Foursquare social networks.

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8.

In 2012 TweetDeck reverted to only supporting Twitter and Facebook, ending support for LinkedIn, MySpace, and the now defunct Google Buzz effective June 2012.

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9.

TweetDeck raised a Series A round of funding with many of these same investors, and Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, and the SV Angel group.

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10.

On May 25, 2011, TweetDeck was bought by Twitter for £25 million, after a bidding war with Bill Gross's UberMedia.

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