TweetDeck is a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter accounts. It interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It was the most popular Twitter application with a 23 percent market share as of June 2009, following only the official Twitter website with 45.7 percent share.
A year after launching TweetDeck in July 4th 2008, Iain Dodsworth received his initial $300,000 funding from The Accelerator Group, Howard Lindzon, Taavet Hinrikus, Gerry Campbell, Roger Ehrenberg, betaworks, Brian Pokorny, and Bill Tai. The company raised a Series A round of funding with many of these same investors, and Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, and the SV Angel group.
On May 25, 2011, TweetDeck was bought by Twitter for £25 million, after a bidding war with Bill Gross's UberMedia.