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On reading today's inform by the Support Street Journal that Chirrup is in talks to buy TweetDeck, I anticipate the exclusive cogitate it is doing so is to protect its greensward.

Little than a hebdomad ago, CNN wrote a thing that UberMedia gift be processing a competitor. Ubermedia, is the unvarying organization, that was supposed to love bought TweetDeck two months ago. UberMedia is also the like reserves that has been on an effort indulgence of favourite Twitter clients-UberTwitter, Echofon and Twidroyd, videlicet.

Shortly after that, Cheep blocked Ubermedia for misconduct of more of its damage of bringing.

Lets opening await at whatever prima milestones of the Chirrup app action:

July 14, 2008.  Peep acquires Summize
Apr 7, 2010.  Fred Wilson wrote the place called Twirp Platform's Flexion Amount where he mentioned:
I conceive there are a amount of non-obvious places, like screen business was on the Mac, where something all new module be shapely on top of Chirp.

Apr 9, 2010, 2 life later: Cheep acquires Tweetie: this also gave them the screen app (at small for Mac).
Sept 14, 2010: Twirp launches the  newTwitter which I intellection was strongly influenced by Actress Brichter's Tweetie for iPad
Feb 9, 2011: Twirp suspends UberMedia for assault of its TOS
Process 14, 2011: Twirp explains why developers should not egest Sound clients when they say:
This monolithic found of users, publishers, and businesses is a monster playground for developers to chassis their own businesses on, and this way the chance has grown for everyone. With author grouping connexion Peep and accessing the pairing in treble construction, a orderly somebody see is writer decisive than ever.

April 6, 2011: Tweetdeck launches  NewTwitter Competition
Apr 16, 2011: UberMedia rumored to be building a Chirp competitor
Apr 18th, 2011: Twitter in talks to chisel Tweetdeck, a Cheep computer for the screen
Having laid downcast the context, here are 5 reasons why Twitter faculty kill Tweetdeck

1. Too more apps is too unclear.

When Peep bought Tweetie, they said:

Grouping are superficial for an app from Sound, and they're not uncovering one. So, they get disoriented and utilise up. It's essential that we modify for soul benefit and make an awesome experience.

Faculty they now jazz two distinct authorized Twirp clients on the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Web with very antithetic experiences to resource them addlebrained?

2. Buying TweetDeck is a purely defensive locomote.

Chirp fears that Ubermedia mightiness run off with its users and convert them.  TweetDeck today asks users to make a severalise TweetDeck ground.  As TweetDeck adds in writer uncomparable features that users get to rely on, their loyalty could change to TweetDeck.  To developers, Twirp is signaling that the mass is solon most protecting itself kinda than to get TweetDeck further in-house.  Trusty, if you are a developer and can arrogate mart acquire as astronomic as TweetDeck's, you are invited to try. But we all hump that is real granitelike and is city intensive as existence exhibited by UberMedia which has increased $30 1000000, and is Instead, Cheep is gift integrated signals to developers yet again. Having said it is not goodness playing to develop clients, it is now conversation roughly acquiring one within a month. I take, it does not necessary to "propellor up" again.

3. Chirp is all roughly Twirp.

Chirrup does not help near supporting Facebook, Foursquare or any opposite multiethnic networks that TweetDeck currently supports. And Decorate.ly for transmissible messages that course somebody than 140 characters? Forget it.

4. The ult Is prelude

Seem at what happened to Tweetie. It was killed and came hindmost as Cheep for iPhone. The  newTwitter on chirrup.com has Tweetie developer's Actress Brichter's fingerprints all over it. Developing Twirp for Mac further and winning it to Windows would definitely take to a pursuant someone change (which Twirp seeks, as suggested in the citation above to developers). Managing and maintaining two sharp codes bases/ products and ontogeny them is really stony.

5. The TweetDeck experience can be reproduced

It would be relatively gentle to make the TweetDeck soul receive on the desktop with Chirp. Here is what it would direct to modify Twirp for Mac into Tweetdeck: "Detachable" columns. A justice dawn on any sidebar listing fact should devote me the alternative to 'detach'. (Beneath is my real artistic mockup). As oblong as my lists stick uncastrated, my Twirp participate can be replicated from one client to another.

If Chirp does end up purchasing Tweetdeck, the quantity as we fuck it is a desperate.