CORAL GABLES (LALATE) – Twitter is pursuing a purchase of TweetDeck claims reports Monday. The Twitter TweetDeck deal has yet to be confirmed by either company. But the WSJ is reporting that the two companies are in negotiations, adding that  Twitter is set to pay a reported $50 million for TweetDeck.

The news comes just days after another report claimed that UberMedia was set to buy TweetDeck.

Last week, Mashable reported that UberMedia was pursuing a purchase of TweetDeck after raising nearly $18 million in a new round of funding earlier this year. At the time, Mashable reported that “because TweetDeck users create a TweetDeck account in addition to a Twitter account, creating a backup network or alternative communications platform is less cumbersome for users [with TweetDeck]“.

The WSJ report indicates that TweetDeck has fifteen employees in England and is funded by industry leaders including Ron Conway and John Borthwick. Neither TweetDeck nor Twitter had any comment about the news.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Twitter outage today has been resolved. Twitter went down Saturday morning before dawn but the social networking site is back to normal. News reports state users experienced the outage starting at 3 am EST / 1 am PST today. Three hours later, the outage was still be reporting.

LALATE experienced the outage roughly one hour ago during its coverage of Shakira’s nominations for the Billboard Latin Music Awards. When trying to see if the hitmaker had tweeted the news of her thirteen nominations to fans, Shakira’s twitter account, along with twitter accounts of other nominees like Enrique Iglesias, were unresponsive.

But as of 7 am PST 10 am EST, Twitter is back to normal.

Strangely, during the time of the outage, third party application sites like Bit.ly were still fully functioning. Remote posting to Twitter through third party websites was not interrupted during the outage period Saturday.

One week ago, Twitter confirmed changes of UberMedia and other sites as to their applications: “On Sunday, Twitter reinstated access to the applications twidroyd and UberSocial for Blackberry (formerly UberTwitter), which were suspended on Friday for policy violations.”

Twitter added “Our initial review indicates that steps have been taken to remedy the violations for these applications. We will review these applications on an ongoing basis for compliance. We will review UberSocial for iPhone and UberCurrent, two other applications suspended on Friday, when they are provided to us.”

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BOSTON (LALATE) – Ashley Kerekes in choosing @theashes as her Twitter account never thought it would bring her international notoriety. Ashley is a 22 year old from Massachusetts. She told news this weekend that, for as long as she can remember, her boyfriend referred to her as The Ashes. So when she joined Twitter, she adopted that as her account name.

On Thursday, Ashley Kerekes started her morning with her usual three hundred followers. But by Monday morning, she was already at 6100 followers. What happened?

Ashley Kerekes initially had no clue. That was until people started sending her messages about cricket overseas. “The Ashes” contest between Australia and England had begun. Tweets about the match were now being sent to Kerekes. She responded “this is not the account of the cricket match. Check profiles before you send mentions, it’s incredibly annoying and rude” and “this isn’t the cricket twitter”. “Fans” started asked Kerekes for the current score. Her response was “Sorry guys, I don’t know the cricket match score.”

With that, she followed it up with her now notable tweet “I am not a cricket match. Stop mentioning me and check profiles before you send messages. It’s really annoying.”

From there, the Brisbane Times newspaper ran an news article on her, BBC ran news coverage of the Twit-confusion. But still, fans wanted Kerekes to take a position on a sporting match in a country she had never visited. “I’m not sure who I support, England or Australia. However, I’ve been to England. I’ve never been to Australia.” Because of that tweet, Kerekes has been offered a plane flight by an Australian airline, reports BBC News.

Soon, the “annoying” situation turned into something enjoyable. The Brisbane Times says Kerekes considers the Twitter celebrity status now as “amazing”. Kerekes is now selling t-shirts. But she still doesn’t know the score. “Sorry guys, I don’t know the cricket match score” or “What … is a wicket?”

In the end, fame can be exhausting even @theashes. “Okay, this has been insane. I’m exhausted”.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Twitter photos of Adrianne Curry surprised fans today. Adrianne Curry posted Twitter pictures of herself, even one in the shower, for Twit-fans to “follow”. Now international news is following the picture posting.

Fans know Curry for winning America’s Next Top Model in 2003. But now, she’s becoming America’s Next top shower star. Most pictures of this “genre” posted to Twitter are usually followed with an “oops”, “accident”, or “hack” explanation of how the scandal pics were tweeted. Such is not the case here. Curry posted these pictures herself, proudly and clearly.

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She said of the pictures “I always keep my promises.” Perhaps it’s time she make some more promises again. Curry, 27, is married to Christopher Knight (Brady Bunch). The couple starred in My Fair Brady.

As reports the Daily Mail, Curry loves comics as much as her shower. “I am ashamed to admit it, but I was young, I also watched the Ewok Adventures. My Dad is HUGE into everything fantasy and sci-fi, and I guess he just rubbed off on me. He was more into Star trek though. As for comics, I was a tomboy, and most of my friends were boys, so that came naturally.”

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PHOTO! Here is that Hayley Williams twitter pic making news, a twitpic scandal photo that Hayley Williams called “hacked” shortly after Twitter followers saw it late Thursday night.

Hayley Williams has millions of fans as the lead singer of Paramore. On Twitter, Williams’ followers number 1/2 million and growing. So on Thursday night the most unlikely set of events happened. The below (redacted) picture of Hayley Williams was posted to her Twitpic account and then tweeted on Twitter.com

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From there, the events turn peculiar.

The twitpic had reportedly 5,000 views, not including how many saw it on Twitter.com. Some comments to it included “OMG” and “crazy”. Thereafter, Williams tweeted “well … my night just changed drastically, got hacked.”

The assertion by Williams is that someone had access to the scandal picture and equally had access to her twitter account to post it. What do you believe happened?

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