Seesmic’s plans for platform and social networking domination have been extended with the popular Twitter client announcing today the acquisition of Ping.fm.
Seesmic switched from being a video social software app and took on Tweetdeck in 2009 - making its Twitter service available on Android, Blackberry, Windows, OSX and within a web browser.
The change in business plan was made possible by the acquisition of Twhirl. By adding Ping, users “can now update 50 social networks using Seesmic+Ping.fm from email, chat, sms, Blackberry, Android, web, Windows, OSX and much more soon,” according to Loic Le Meur, Seesmic’s founder.
That is a quantum leap in options, although most users are satisfied that they can post status updates just to Twitter and Facebook from such services.
The San Francisco-based start-up has seen more than 3.5m downloads of its programs and Ping brings 500,000 users to the combined service.
Ping is currently responsible for around 200,000 status updates a day and should help Seesmic to its target of 1m updates a day in 2010 from its service.
There are numerous clients doing a better job than Twitter itself in helping users monitor and organise tweets, but Tweetdeck and Seesmic have established brand leadership in this part of the Twitter ecosystem.
