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The article makes it sounds so business like; so competitive, but what are these companies competing for? Who can add feature 'x' to twitter, when you know if f
by redorb 17y ago
The article makes it sounds so business like; so competitive, but what are these companies competing for? Who can add feature 'x' to twitter, when you know if feature 'x' shows profitability then twitter will copy it internally and the game is over... and if I was twitter I wouldn't buy that company out - I would just copy it.
- dshah 17y agoYou could have said the same thing about search, but then, Summize did get acquired by Twitter. And, you're assuming that the only value in building out these features is the potential to get acquired. It's possible that the feature itself has some value to BackType given their business.
- staunch 17y agoSaying Summize was acquired without us knowing how much was paid for it is misleading. It could have been "acquired" for less than the amount of a big signing bonus, in which case it's evidence against your point, not for it. Generalized real time search is also almost certainly more valuable and difficult technically than counting re-tweets, thus more likely to be acquired at all.