Last week Google unveiled its browser-based app store, the Chrome Web Store, featuring apps from major partners like Amazon, the New York Times, and EA. Amidst such significant players, the popular Twitter service interface TweetDeck made a surprisingly strong showing, fluttering to the very top of Google's marketplace.

According to a Friday blog post, the TweetDeck app racked up 62,000 installations by nearly 46,000 users in the opening three days. To put those numbers in context, the New York Times garnered 56,000 installs, whereas Google's own Gmail tallied 38,000.

The TweetDeck Web Store app is a personal browser that connects friends across social-networking sites, and allows users to configure and automatically update browsers with custom columns, groups, and saved searches.

With this successful debut, TweetDeck continues an already ambitious platform rollout, adding Chrome to existing support for the desktop, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android.

Android, in particular, was the source of recent controversy when, in October, Steve Jobs asserted that Android was "very, very fragmented," and mischaracterized TweetDeck's development experience to support his claim. "Twitterdeck [sic] had to contend with more than a hundred different versions of Android software on 244 different handsets," expounded the Apple exec. In the wake of Jobs's remarks, TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth responded by tweet, "Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android? Errr nope, no we didn't. It wasn't."

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