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It looks like yet another Twitter client may be getting swooped up by the hugely popular messaging service. The Wall Street Journal isreportingthat Twitter is in talks to purchase TweetDeck, one of the biggest and most feature-rich Twitter clients. As of now, both Twitter and TweetDeck are keeping mum on the possible acquisition. Accoring to the WSJ’s sources, Twitter has beenrecruitingin the UK and plans to open an office in London’s Silicon Roundabout later this year, in the very same locale as Tweetdeck’s 15 person team....

Twitter could soon offer brands dedicated Facebook-style pages on the microblogging service, opening up ways for advertisers to deliver tailored messages to their followers and serving as a central hub for companies to coordinate campaigns,Marketing Magazine reports. Sources close to the subject have said Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and President of Revenue Adam Bain are championing the idea as one of the many plans it has to monetize the service. Providing advertisers and brands with more additional ways to interact with the Twitter userbase, adding to the existing Promoted Trends and free company accounts....

If you think that Twitter hasn’t hit the big time yet, then thereports of fundingshould have been enough to change your mind. But if that’s not done the trick thena recent reportfrom The Wall Street Journal is likely to have your jaw hit the floor. According to the WSJ, Twitter has been in “low-level talks” of an acquisition, with a valuation between $8 and 10 billion. Yes, that’s with a very big B....

Twitter is looking to start placing ads into users timelines,reportsthe Financial Times. The publication cites ‘people with direct knowledge’ of Twitter’s plans that the company will begin placing “promoted tweets” into the main stream of user’s Twitter accounts. In addition to placing ads right into the stream, other options that are being considered include a local deals option that would rival Groupon. This would pull information from user conversations and trends to offer limited-time offers....

You might remember a few months ago whenTwitterstarted telling third-party developers inno uncertain termsthat they should shy away from building Twitter clients. Shortly thereafter, popular third-party client UberTwitter got a wrist-smack from Twitter, forcing a name change and a resubmission of its client for API access. If reports comingfrom SAIpan out to be true, then the US Federal Trade Comission is quite interested in Twitter’s handling of its third-party builders and trouble could be on the horizon....