Twitter Confirms TweetDeck Purchase, Promises To Invest In The Product "Users Know And Love"

Over on the official blog, Twitter has now confirmed the acquisition of popular software client TweetDeck, which we wrote about yesterday.

In a brief update from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, the company provides a little insight about what the purchase means, why it was made and where they go from here.

Costolo writes:

In early 2008, a London-based programmer named Iain Dodsworth began thinking about how to organize everything happening on Twitter. His answer was TweetDeck, a groundbreaking dashboard for monitoring what people are saying in real-time.

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