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Twitter's massive pivot is actually well underway: - They bought Crashlytics and released Fabric.io, a souped-up Twitter SDK + Crashlytics + their bundled ad platform MoPub. The idea is you'll develop your app with this SDK and get crash reporting, usage stats, ad serving, 'Sign in via Twitter', Twitter integration, and all of this other stuff [1] for free. - They bought Digits, which is a 'log in with your phone number'-as-a-service and made it free to use. It's now integrated with Fabric. - They just bought Magic Pony which will help them better classify non-text posts so that their currently-awful suggestions are better. Fact is, 'Twitter', the service where people post tweets, is no longer their primary growth area. It's their most externally visible, sure, but they want their SDK inside every app, and mine data and serve ads, just like Google and Facebook. This might actually work, because their SDK has some very nice things you might want anyway, compared to the other two that only give you identity, integration, and ads. [1] https://get.fabric.io/kits [2] https://get.digits.com |