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If I were a betting man, I'd be looking to Twitpic next.
by stevenp 17y ago
If I were a betting man, I'd be looking to Twitpic next.
- brandnewlow 17y agoExcept that during a March 12, 2009 meeting, they discussed it and decided not to buy it, according to the Twitter notes leaked to Techcrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-... I always felt a little bad for the Twitpic guy for that. Also, that conversation from the notes spelled out pretty clearly that Twitter would eventually start pulling things like this.
- wheels 17y agoGiven that Twitpic apparently has multi-million annual revenue, I won't cry for them too long. ;-) http://www.businessinsider.com/twitpic-is-doing-15-to-2-million-in-annual-sales-2010-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/twitpic-is-doing-15-to-2-mill...
- rythie 17y agoMy guess is that's going to pretty expensive to buy a company with that much profit already and he's already turned down a $10m offer.
- ryanhuff 17y agoThe move to buy Tweetie surely ratcheted up the pressure for the likes of Twitpic to sell. As the uncertainty begins to spread in the minds of these developers, the price will likely drop, and make a sale more palatable to Twitter.
- abraham 17y agoIf Twitpic was well implemented I could see it but it has no design and little innovation.
- cmelbye 17y agoWhy would they do that though? They could do a better job by building it into the site itself, and it would probably work out to be cheaper for such a simple feature.
- ryanhuff 17y agoTrue. The benefit of buying is eliminating one of the big pic players, and thereby disrupting the other twitter client apps. You also get an inventory of pics and a site where you could promote your new twitter properties.