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by ticks 5234 days ago
The purchase of Pownce probably had more to do with talent acquisition than the actual product, after all, it disappeared.
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Sure. They went straight to work on something similar that Six Apart was cooking up. But, there have been many amazing products shutdown over the years due to talent acquisitions.

Pownce ultimately would have been forced to shutdown due to the popularity of Twitter and Facebook I think, but that doesn't mean that it itself wasn't a good product.