TweetDeck Twitter app to continue despite Companies House letter

23 Jan 2013

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The British company TweetDeck Ltd, which Twitter acquired to gain control of the multi-column app for viewing the social networking site, would soon cease to exist as an independent entity after the registrar, Companies House, moved to take if off its register.

The app would however, continue as part of Twitter itself, which now owned the intellectual property and employed the staff that had been working on the product.

TweetDeck, the company, emerged as one of the iconic names for the UK technology industry's regrowth and focussed on social media in locations around London's Old Street – an area that later came to be known as Silicon Roundabout.

The letter from Companies House, first highlighted by Sky News, said the company would be struck off in three months and forcibly dissolved unless it filed accounts, which were due in September.

TweetDeck was established in 2008 by Iain Dodsworth. Twitter bought in May 2011 for a rumoured $40 million, apparently to head off competition from would-be advertising sellers on the network.

However, the closure of TweetDeck Ltd would not affect Twitter or TweetDeck, the app, because the assets of the UK company had been acquired by the larger US company.

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