Yes, maybe he doesn't care about preserving user data. That's kind of the point... I have serious doubts that here have been any actual Twitpic employees for a

Yes, maybe he doesn't care about preserving user data. That's kind of the point... I have serious doubts that here have been any actual Twitpic employees for a while. If there were, that seems unwise of both them and Everett. Twitter announced the doom of third-party photo sites in late 2010. Twitpic basically went silent a couple years ago. Meanwhile, Everett says he's been working on Pingly for over a year[0]. Note the timing of that article -- not even a month before the announcement of Twitpic shutting down. No matter how much he wants to try to make this about a trademark dispute, it's clearly not some sudden collapse. By all appearances, he's moved on to other things and has finally realized it's time to shut down an old project that's been on a long and probably inevitable downward spiral. This is understandable, failing to preserve data is not. [0] http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140810/PC0313/140819922 http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140810/PC0313/140819...