We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve entered into an agreement with Atebits (aka Loren Brichter) to acquire Tweetie, a leading iPhone Twitter client. – By Evan Williams, CEO Twitter.
Twitter always had a special consideration for the mobile section. Its 140 character limit is also a reason for the same, people could easily post to twitter by sending SMS. We have also seen in the recent months how, twitters mobile version of web has transformed in terms of features and looks, which clearly indicated the Twitters grwoing interest towards mobile market.
Following this strategy, Twitter CEO Evan Willams has officialy announced they are going to accquire Atebits - iPhone App Tweetie and it would be officaly called as “Twitter for iPhone”. This offcial announcement was made on Twitter blog. It also said that Tweeties founder Loren Brichter would be joining Twitter team and will be working on Tweetie for iPad.
Tweetie is a very populate iPhone App, it have also won an awards for 2009 Best Apple Design Award. Its currently available in iTunes app Store for $ 2.99, Twitter has also announced that they will make this app free on iTune Stores, everyone can download it now for free.
Well a iPhone app was expected from twitter, but it would be an acquisition of Tweetie no would have expected. Perhaps this could be first Acquisition from Twitter, this shows how fast twitter is growing and they may also join the Acquisition league soon.