Twitter's official Android app is coming -- will it be bought or built?

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At its Chirp developer conference in San Francisco, Twitter announced that an official Android client is on the way. What we don't know yet is whether it will be developed from scratch or acquired and rebranded. Twitter has taken both routes with its official apps thus far: the BlackBerry app was built in a partnership with RIM, and the iPhone app will be a rebranded Tweetie.

If Twitter were to buy an Android app, I'm not sure which one it would go for. As far as I can tell, no app has distinguished itself on Google's mobile OS the same way the award-winning Tweetie did on the iPhone. Plus, partnering with Google to build an Android app would definitely have some advantages for Twitter. The two companies already seem to be getting cozier, with Google launching a Twitter timeline search this week.

What do you think? Will Twitter's official Android client be all new, or will Twitter buy an existing client? Which ones look like smart targets for acquisition?

[via TechCrunch]

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