Comments on: Tweetdeck Funding…a Sign of Twitter Insanity

By: Confirmed: Tweetdeck Gets $3M

Confirmed: Tweetdeck Gets $3M — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:47:28 +0000

[...] and investment group. Betaworks is a lead investor in the company started by Iain Dodsworth; other angel investors include Ron Conway of SV Angel, Howard Lindzon and Danny Rimer of Index [...]

By: Betaworks Raises $20M From Intel, Others – GigaOM

Betaworks Raises $20M From Intel, Others – GigaOM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:01:25 +0000

[...] comparison to Bit.ly and Chartbeat, Betaworks is purely an investor in Tweetdeck, a very popular Twitter reader. “We have stakes in 24 companies –- some small and some large stakes,” says co-founder [...]

By: sem

sem — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:37:27 +0000

Tweetdeck is a great app for social media networking. Tweeting is at an all time high but I still don’t believe they will be able to take a large portion of the market share from Facebook.

By: remote access software

remote access software — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:14:04 +0000

It seems like there’s almost a mini .com-bubble forming with social media. The value-add is data mining (see above, they access your whole pc) but i think that the bubble may burst. First off, there’s only so many hours in the day and people DO have a limit of how much they will tweet. And all it takes is one mis-use of consumer data to bring a social media empire crashing down.

By: BetaWorks Raises Around $2M for Bit.ly, Spins It Out

BetaWorks Raises Around $2M for Bit.ly, Spins It Out — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:30:43 +0000

[...] Twitter-focused search engine, Summize, to Twitter last year. Since then Betaworks has invested in Tweetdeck, a Twitter client built with Adobe AIR. [...]

By: terra

terra — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:26:20 +0000

yes I agree to antonie. why does this programme need unrestricted access to my entire (pc) system? Is this just a fake software to spy you out? Spying out millions of users. Putting them under stress that the latest marketing gag is twitter? And can you emagine, that families using it? Oh comon! Thats just another marketing platform (or call it a time waisting game) in the marvelous world wild web where some attention seeking lonely pc geeks cry out to be heard, as they have a lack of normal conversion like talking through their mouth and not their fingers. Count all the time together people spent on writing in twitter, and count all the time of people reading them. This time could be spend better to get away with the recession, or not? Or just make a nice walk in nature! You will benefit more.

By: antonie

antonie — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:02:21 +0000

Actually, http://www.peoplebrowsr.com is very similar to TweetDeck, except it’s web-based. What I appreciate about it, is that you’re not giving an Adobe Air like programme unrestricted access to your entire system.
I’m now using PeopleBrowser through Fluid (a site specific browser), which basically gives me all of the TweetDeck functionality, without it’s Adobe Air intrusion…

By: Thomas Whitney

Thomas Whitney — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:08:02 +0000

Twitter is a zeitgiest of the time. Of course, it appears to be insane. It’s experimental. Designed to broaden perspective about communication.

I personally think the idea itself is culturally revoluationary.

My main concern is though digital security. They are going to have to sew that up a bit. Otherwise, LOVE IT!

By: G

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:36:33 +0000

OM – good post – unlike the vast majjority of graduates from the social engineering academy at Union Square Ventures – glad to see at least you ignore “fashion” and call it like it is.

“Twitter Insanity” – Twitter is Insanity. Period. I see a few people here having hissy fits with the flavors of Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s Sarah Palin campaign stumps – but laugh it off – it is comical at best.

Cheers -

By: Jeff Hilimire

Jeff Hilimire — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:37:17 +0000

@Jeff W – I’m sure @Om is sad to have you drop off of his reader list (even though we both know you haven’t), but its a bit absurd to ask him to only write about things that make him think of roses and rainbows. He absolutely nails this, while TweetDeck is one of the better Twitter applications, $500K is a ton of dough especially in these times for an application that competes with so many others, none of which have any kind of revenue stream.

Saying anything other than that he’ll remain skeptical until proved otherwise is absurd in this case.

By: Scott Rafer

Scott Rafer — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:19:26 +0000

@Om I have no problem with your (or really any) skepticism, as you know painfully well. However, I know the individuals writing the check in the this case. The Betaworks guys are are business people not true believers and have a privileged and intimate view of the Twitter ecology.

By: Hey Twitter, wanna a few bucks

Hey Twitter, wanna a few bucks — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:03:58 +0000

[...] with an amazing post and guest posts it here. This one is a stonker of an idea, its comes in a week where Tweetdeck secured $500,000 investment and the channels are alive with chatter of a twitter business [...]

By: TweetDeck Takes Angel Round Up To $500,000

TweetDeck Takes Angel Round Up To $500,000 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:46:42 +0000

[...] said that though, I tend to side with Om Malik: this sort of money for a desktop app that could be easily replicated and with no clear revenue [...]

By: Joe G

Joe G — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:38:33 +0000

Amen too. We all need to focus on real business models, like weblogs selling ads at $.50/thousand, or scanning business cards into pdf files .. now those are huge ideas!

Of course we’ve heard this for years . . . AOL cant make money, Google cant make money, MySpace sucks, Facebook will never work . . . those who do not try to create can only criticize

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:06:08 +0000

amen. this is why I banned Twitter on CenterNetworks for 10 days. Let’s get back to talking about real apps with real revenue models, etc.

By: TweetDeck recibe inversión de capital

TweetDeck recibe inversión de capital — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:07:16 +0000

[...] casi medio millón de dólares en una aplicación para una red social no-muy-grande como es Twtter es una locura, pero yo no estoy de acuerdo. Los modelos de negocios y los métodos para ganar dinero del software [...]