"Up until about a year ago, we[twitter] used an online database called Dabble DB to track and share information about our projects internally. While we’ve since moved that project management tool in-house (...)" [In other words: we realize this was a great product, and we still killed it, because, meh profits for twitter?"]
Thanks, I suppose I should have been a little more specific -- I'm not surprised Summize, Tweetie, Gnip and TweetDeck lives on. That said, Crashlytics, MoPub and Vine does seem to indicate that not every Twitter acquisition of an "independent" product leads to product death.
I don't recognize that many from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Except for Dabble DB (Smallthought Systems) and Posterous:
http://blog.dabbledb.com/2010/06/140character-dabbling.html
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/30/4281780/posterous-is-shutt...
I hadn't realize how extra-cruel the dabbledb thing was until I read this:
https://blog.twitter.com/2010/more-dabbling
"Up until about a year ago, we[twitter] used an online database called Dabble DB to track and share information about our projects internally. While we’ve since moved that project management tool in-house (...)" [In other words: we realize this was a great product, and we still killed it, because, meh profits for twitter?"]
For those that didn't know what DabbleDB was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZmYMWKLkY
So, while an acquisition might be great for the owners of soundcloud, I'm rather terrified as a user...