TweetDeck has been on the fast-track to Twitter stardom ever since it was released in mid-2008. It is actually the second most popular way to access Twitter, only behind the official Twitter.com, so you can understand why
Best Buy and Interscope Records would want to use such a popular app to sell some CDs, but it's the way it is being marketed that has raised a few eyebrows.
According to
The Consumerist, and later confirmed with our own eyes, Best Buy is offering anyone who purchases a CD by an artist under Interscope's label a free Interscope-branded copy of
TweetDeck. All you have to do is add an eligible CD to your online shopping cart, ranging in price from $10.99 to $13.99, and the
TweetDeck application CD will also be added and shipped with your order. The
TweetDeck app comes pre-loaded with social media content from 16 various Interscope artists.
As most of you already know,
TweetDeck is a
free desktop app and a
free iPhone app, which means this really isn't much of a deal and makes the marketing behind it seem that much more ridiculous. Sure, it saves you a little bit of time by not having to add these various Interscope artists' social media feeds by hand, but having to remove all of the ones you don't want by hand would probably chew up the same amount of time.
So don't let this odd deal trick any of your friends or family members into purchasing you Lady Gaga's newest album just to get a free iPhone
TweetDeck app for themselves, because no one will be happy with the end result. That is, of course, unless you really love Lady Gaga and Interscope.
