Motivations here are obvious (and were obvious 3 weeks ago when this was first reported): It's a defensive acquisition to prevent UberMedia from taking over the

Motivations here are obvious (and were obvious 3 weeks ago when this was first reported): It's a defensive acquisition to prevent UberMedia from taking over the Twitter ecosystem. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/02/twitter-to-buy-tweetdeck-for-40-million-50-million/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/02/twitter-to-buy-tweetdeck-fo...