Claim Chowder, TweetDeck Edition

MG Siegler, reporting for AOL/TechCrunch back in February:

The number of companies in the Twitter ecosystem keeps contracting. But not for a necessarily bad reason, but because they keep getting purchased. And what’s crazy is that it’s largely one person who has been buying them up: Bill Gross. We’ve just learned that his company, now called UberMedia, has just acquired TweetDeck.

We’re hearing that the deal, which happened recently, was in the $25 - $30 million range. And this is clearly the largest deal they’ve done yet as TweetDeck is the largest Twitter client outside of Twitter’s own properties.

Close, except that UberMedia did not buy TweetDeck.

★ Wednesday, 25 May 2011