Do you have any evidence for Twitters motivation in this case? I don't see how dabbledb constituted even a theoretical threat to Twitter.
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2010/more-than-dab...
Which companies own the online data analysis tools market now?
Why couldn't Twitter continue with the products development back then?
Did they truly consider their contribution of those employees to their company more valuable than the potential of the product, or were they against the product falling into hands of another company?
Meaning more like what Airtable does.
I don't think Twitter ever had any plans for that space.