• Jan192009

    Tweetdeck gets funding, insanity? really?

    Posted by Gene in Software, Web Development, Twitter

    Just perusing my RSS feeds and came across this article “Another Twitter App Funded: TweetDeck Raises an Angel Round. Next Up: A Business Plan” where Tweetdeck (or specifically it’s creator) is getting 500K in funding. I then came across this article on gigaom.com where Om Malik thinks it’s insanity. Or Twitter insanity. Reading his replies to other commentors he’s really not hip to it.

    [Tweetdeck] one of the many Twitter desktop apps that use Adobe Air and has been downloaded 250,000 times, is getting just shy of half a million bucks from New York-based incubator Betaworks. I’m not quite sure why! Though I think I understand — it uses Bit.ly, a service that shortens URLs to be exchanged on Twitter and is also backed by Betaworks.

    He goes on to reply later that he doesn’t understand it, since Tweetdeck is JUST and Adobe Air app…

    I think is one of the things that people working in/on this industry (the internet) falls prey to. We get so caught up in how it all works and how its put together we forget the big picture. Normal people don’t give a crap. People will respond to something that looks neat and works, things that make them feel cool for what they are doing. Maybe Tweetdeck does that for ya, who knows. Now I know Mr. Malik is “IN” on the internet and he needs to write stuff, but seriously, I’m happy for Tweetdeck, I think it rocks they got some money for their creation. I’m not going to take anything away from them for getting investment money to continue the cause, especially in today’s financial climate.

    • Post a Comment 2 Comments

    1. Posted at 9:30 pm on 01/27/09

      Brian

      It’s like 1999 all over again. Amazing how quickly people forget lessons of the past.

    2. Posted at 9:54 pm on 01/27/09

      Gene

      After some more research it turns out tweetdeck is just a single dude who built it. Looks like they not only got tweetdeck but the guy for life. Probably not a bad investment…

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