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Twitter fires ‘Sandy’, messes up big

Started by Shawn Farner · 7 months ago

In case you haven’t heard, Twitter has acquired values of n, the web startup responsible for productivity tools Stikkit and I Want Sandy.  These are two great apps, and upon reading, you might characterize this as a great move by Twitter to diversify their offering ... Continue reading »

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  • And you think Facebook wouldn't have done the same thing if their purchase of Twitter had gone through?
    Companies think about *their* goals more often than the goals of their userbase.
    You're absolutely right, in that it was a terrible move on their part. I just think it's less of a surprise (well, the 2 weeks thing sucks) than people are making it.
  • The circumstances are a little bit different with the value of n acquisition, though. It would be like Facebook buying up Twitter just so they could add Evan Williams to their team. If they would do that and then shut down and do away with Twitter, the backlash from the Twitter user base would be brutal.

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