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The tweetdeck entry should note that twitter, in acquiring it, threw away their entire product and rewrote it from scratch with less than half the functionality
by Mithaldu 12y ago
The tweetdeck entry should note that twitter, in acquiring it, threw away their entire product and rewrote it from scratch with less than half the functionality; thus making it less an acquiry and more of a snuffing.
- louismg 12y agoLots of the companies acquired had their product changed or killed afterward. This could have been a much longer post.
- dotBen 12y agoThat's still an acquisition. Companies get acquired for a variety of reasons and not all of them are because the parent company wants it to succeed/improve. The only reason Twitter bought Tweetdeck was that Bill Gross was threatening to make a "twitter rival", and acquiring Tweetdeck would have given him a massive springboard audience and Twitter graph data. Twitter acquired Tweetdeck to throw it into the toilet, basically, so that someone else couldn't benefit from it. Nothing wrong with that.
- Mithaldu 12y agoI appreciate the detail on the behind-the-scenes bullshit. That said: > Nothing wrong with that. AHAHAHA, have a hearty "fuck you with a rusty pipe" from germany.