Today’s guest post is written by Matt LaCasse.

As you are likely aware by now, Twitter rolled out a major redesign and announced brand pages simultaneously.

While the brand pages announcement is by far the most exciting part of this, we’ll have to wait to see their full implementation since they’re available only to mega-brands at the moment.

You may remember Twitter purchased TweetDeck earlier this year, and at the time there was much hand-wringing over what Twitter would do with its new toy. Theories ran the gamut from a complete shutdown to a shelving of the popular third-party service.

Then, the redesign happened and we have an answer to the question of what Twitter will do with TweetDeck. (more…)