San Francisco -- Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, the developer of a third-party Twitter client, in a deal valued at more than $40 million, CNN Money reported, citing sources close to the deal. San Francisco-based Twitter previously acquired mobile Twitter client Tweetie. Since its founding in 2008, London-based TweetDeck has raised nearly $4 million in venture capital funding from backers including Betaworks, The Accelerator Group and individual investors including Ron Conway and Howard Lindzon.
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