The popular Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Tweetie has been acquired by Twitter, developer Loren Brichter announced on his website yesterday. He will begin a position in Twitter's mobile team and the iPhone application will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and be made available for free in the coming weeks.

Perhaps this also means that an iPad client will be available sooner, now that he is part of a team? Many are already longing to see the application on their iPads and for Twitter now, this would be a smart move to make, quickly.