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TwittyPic acquired. Launched on HN 72 days ago.

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72 pointsrokhayakebe14 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=388578

"TwittyPic acquired" "Pet Holdings hires TwittyPic Developer"

Which headline is more truthful? Which is more interesting?

I doubt the latter would make it to the top of HN since it doesn't jive with the startup mythos. Congrats to bemmu, but I doubt he is swimming in vaults full of gold coins. This was simply an aqu-hire.

There is some really good stuff in this article though: "five million page views per day, with Huh predicting that the sites will top two billion page views this year." "I asked Huh about the irony of an Internet company turning to stuffed animals and printed books for revenue." "It gives you a little bit of sense of how hard it is to make money online using advertising,"

We should be talking about that.

Closer to the latter, we are cooperating on a revshare basis. I didn't really think of it as an "acquisition", and frankly when I saw the headline I was a bit shocked, first thinking that Ben had sold our site to someone =)

Congrats from another Finn. Did any Finnish news outlet pick this? I haven't seen any. Unlike your Facebook project, which was featured recently in Helsingin Sanomat.

For anyone interested - here's the page with Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=fi&...

Original launch link:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=388226

A low key launch ! (Also looks like it was 72 days ago rather than 47)

I originally thought twitpic, another site I learned about here, was acquired:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404647

Both are pretty neat twitter based apps.

You realize, this is just going to increase the number of apps built upon Twitter... That may not be a bad thing.

And that is great. More innovations. The Twitter team is not able to build all the necessary applications to fully take advantage of their system.

That is, until Twitter cuts down again the number of requests you can make through their API.

Innovation? It's some funny pictures and videos drawn from Twitter, which is itself not that innovative. It's not that great. There's nothing special here.

I wonder if the Twitter team realized the potential ways people have taken and will take the basic twitter platform when they came up with the idea.

"We built an API. 2000 pieces of software are capable of sending updates. Summize was the most important one" - Evan Williams

http://loiclemeur.com/english/2009/02/evan-williams-of-twitt...

I don't like Icanhaz. They're almost as bad as Ebaumsworld. A lot of their content on their network of blogs--the ones not captioned with their tools, or even some of those captioned--are outright stolen. That happycat that they're now making plushies out of is also not their IP.

Amid all of the bad economic news, Huh believes people just want something fun to read or view.

Surely there's some economy to be created to fulfill that desire? Are microsubscription models really doomed?

Congrats, it looks like a great synergy!

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