04-10-2012, 11:48 AM
Evan Wrote:Twitter has a ridiculously easy to use API, so integrating with twitter is simple and cant be the reason either.
the only thing that i can think of that makes a sliver of sense is that facebook is terrified of getting left behind by the next big social network, done to them what they did to myspace (and myspace did to friendster) so they use their cash to buy whatever company they see as a threat.
doesnt seem like instragram would be taken as a threat..but who knows
I seem to remember some bickering between Twitter and Facebook early on that lead to Twitter pretty much telling Facebook to go eff themselves. I may be misremembering.
I'm guessing it's a lot like what they did with the Facebook comments. They want to move beyond the walls of the Fb site to, you know, NOT end up like AOL... and owning commenting on thousands of websites was the first step. Instagram, and it's user base, is a way to move their reach into other spaces in much the same way.
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