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Comment by benatkin | Hacker News Reader

I didn't see the part about twitter turning into a multiple-product company. They've kept Posterous alive but besides that, just about anything they've acquired has been rolled into their core product or dismantled. I'd welcome the change, but I really don't know whether to believe the part about Crashlytics continuing unabated.

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It is an interesting acquisition - clearly, Twitter has a lot of use for the product internally, and they were probably one of, if not the biggest, client (in terms of raw data collected). There is something to be said for mitigating the risk that your third party suppliers disappear from under your feet.

I don't know what Crashlytics enterprise pricing structure is like, but if it's anything like other similar services they'll probably be on twelve month agreements with their clients, which would be complex to untie. I doubt the service will go anywhere for paying clients for a little while. If you're relying on a free third-party service in your apps you always have a recovery plan should something get bought, retired, or just plain go wrong.

They acquired Vine and just yesterday let them launch their product under Vine and stay in New York.

They acquired TweetDeck and changed it a little but the team and registered company still resides in England.

and as you said Posterous is the other example, although I wouldn't say that's really a Twitter product. They're just letting people leave that at their own will and eventually they'll just turn it off.

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