TweetDeck Turns Two, Desktop App Passes 15 Million Downloads

Popular stream reader TweetDeck turned two on July 4th, and founder Iain Dodsworth just put up a post giving an update on the company’s progress. Tweetdeck now employs 15 people and recently raised more than $3 million in a series B round, led by betaworks. The company’s product started out as a Twitter client, but now supports multiple streams, including Facebook, Foursquare, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, and Myspace.

Some stats:

• TweetDeck’s desktop client has been downloaded more than 15 million times.
• The iPhone app has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times .
• Across all of its apps, TweetDeck’s servers sync more than 7 million Twitter search columns, and adds 25,000 a day.
• Roughly 4 million Tweets and other status updates are sent through TweetDeck every day.
• Users upload 30,000 images a day through the service

(Note that last May TweetDeck reported 15 million total downloads across all its apps).

The always-coy Dodsworth also hints that the company has “been involved in a number of fascinating and strategic discussions with household-name companies which have been…both fascinating and strategic.”  Hmm . . . will TweetDeck make it to its third birthday before getting bought? And more importantly, will its HTML5 browser version come out before then?

Crunchbase

• TWEETDECK

Company: TweetDeck

Website: tweetdeck.com

Launch Date: July 4, 2008

Funding: $3.8M

TweetDeck is a Twitter client for desktop, web, and mobile devices. TweetDeck was originally an Adobe Air desktop application, designed with a unique columned user interface. Its goal was to be a realtime application that allowed users to monitor that information in a single concise view. TweetDeck integrated services from Twitter, Twitscoop, 12seconds, Stocktwits and Facebook. In 2011, Twitter acquired TweetDeck and rebuilt the application in HTML5.

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