After officially announcing the purchase of TweetDeck by $ 40 million, Twitter could have set a new target: an emerging company called AdGrok.

Microblogging company would be willing to pay 10 million dollars for this start-up sponsored by the incubator Y-Combinator, whose main value is the automation of the supply of Google AdWords contextual words. TechCrunch explains, his know-how Twitter could serve to make some improvements in their area of ​​Promotod Promoted Tweets and Trends.

On the other hand, according to the same site, the signature of 140 characters would be preparing to develop its own platform for sharing pictures Twitpic style, or Plixi Yfrog.

All Things Digital also confirmed the information ensuring that the announcement was made at the conference organized by the D9-web, Twitter’s own CEO, Dick Costolo.

Currently, when a user wants to attach images to your tweets, you have to use services like TwitPic or Flickr or Kodak Gallery and then bind these photos in your messages. It is expected that the Twitter service work the same way. As the business model, when shown a picture of TwitPic is also shown advertising, and it is this money that the firm would enter San Francisco.

For experts, launched a service for sharing images is another sign of Twitter’s attempts to increase control of their ecosystem and recall that in March the company announced that third party developers of applications that replicate the functionality of Twiter waste time.