Twitter Just Sold Its Developer Platform To Google

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Posted by msmash on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:20PM from the big-shark,-small-shark dept.

Google has acquired a part of Twitter -- the part that isn't about tweets. Twitter's mobile developer platform Fabric will become part of Google, both companies announced Wednesday. From a report: Acquired by Twitter in 2014, Fabric is "a modular mobile platform" designed to help app developers improve the "stability, distribution, revenue and identity" of their products, according to Twitter's blog post. Everything from the ability to natively embed tweets in other apps to signing in with your Twitter credentials were made possible by Fabric. Now that it's been reacquired, Fabric will merge with Google's Firebase development platform. "We quickly realized that our missions are the same -- helping mobile teams build better apps, understand their users, and grow their businesses," the Fabric team wrote in its announcement. "Fabric and Firebase operate mobile platforms with unique strengths in the market today." And if you're an existing Fabric customer, don't worry, the platform will continue to function. You'll just need to agree to the new terms of service, which will be available once the deal is completed.

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  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  And if you're an existing Fabric customer, don't worry, the platform will continue to function.
  Don't worry *wink* *wink* the platform will continue to function *wink* *wink*
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  by mmell ( 832646 ) writes:
  
  Hopefully, soon. The flaming pile of rubbish that is Twitter has already cost the United States enough.
  I'm sure it made sense at the time - giving SMS connectivity to social networking was a great idea in its day, but nowadays those tweets are coming primarily from PC's, tablets and smart phones. SMS was never designed for this (hell, it wasn't really designed at all - just created when somebody noticed 160+bytes of unused space in the digital telephony design and said "Hey! I can do something cool with
What's in a name...? (Score:3)

by MountainLogic ( 92466 ) writes: on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:32PM (#53691805) Homepage

Must of bought it because their IoT platform is named Thread.

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      by Buchenskjoll ( 762354 ) writes:
      
      Nope. "Must of" is an abomination and it needs to die.
Why....? (Score:2)

by TheOuterLinux ( 4778741 ) writes:

I was thinking we needed more spyware. You can never have enough. Thanks Twitter and Google.
- Re:spyware (Score:1)
  
  by hackwrench ( 573697 ) writes:
  
  They are merging two spyware platforms.
Hmmm (Score:3)

by rmdingler ( 1955220 ) writes: on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:37PM (#53691833) Journal

You'll just need to agree to the new terms of service, which will be available once the deal is completed.
Rooting for the Google Sky Map [dailypicdump.com] version.

Why would they buy something from Tweeter? (Score:2)

by Master5000 ( 4644507 ) writes:

Most likely they already have something better in house and if not, there probably is a better thing in open source world. But then again, this is Google. They'll probably shut it down next year. They probably did an acqui-hire and just needed the engineers, not the technology.
Not sure I need an API (Score:1)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

To turn the word SAD! into an emoji.
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  by LinuxIsGarbage ( 1658307 ) writes:
  
  To turn the word SAD! into an emoji.
  Well it'd be no good on Slashdot anyways.
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  by SumterLiving ( 994634 ) writes:
  
  I also call Twitter, "trump's insider trading broadcast device." The way I heard it ... many people are saying it, trump decides to proclaim a company is failing, fraudulent or he will ruin them but notifies all of his "transition team and chosen administration" one or two days in advance. trump's "transition team and chosen administration" then shorts that company's stock. $Million are made, trump gets a kickback and another favor on the books. All go out and spend $500 on a caviar dinner all the while ma
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  by mmell ( 832646 ) writes:
  
  You say that as though it were a bad thing.
Twitter dev is dead, long live Twitter dev (Score:2)

by magsol ( 1406749 ) writes:

Twitter waffled for so long about exactly what kind of relationship it was going to have with its budding developer community. I can honestly say I'm surprised their decision went in this direction, but at least they made a decision ... I guess?
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  by Snocone ( 158524 ) writes:
  
  > - what would Twitter know about improving revenue exactly?
  http://www.mopub.com
  Pretty much the only noticeable Google competitor left standing up until yesterday. RIP.

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