Source: Squad
Twitter has just purchased Squad, an app that lets you share your screen and video chat with others simultaneously. And with the acquisition, the social media company plans to shut down the app today, December 12. Squad's entire team will join Twitter as part of the deal. Squad co-founder Esther Crawford writes in a Medium post that Twitter wants her company's audio and video expertise. Twitter didn't reveal the acquisition terms, and we don't know if it includes Squad's tech.
Squad gained popularity at the start of the pandemic when its usage increased by 1,100 percent. TechCrunch speculates that Twitter's decision to shutter the app might have something to do with how it was built with Snap's developer tools. That porting Squad to Twitter's backend might not be possible because of this. The move might be for the best as Twitter isn't the best with managing apps outside its core app. Twitter shuttered Vine in 2017 and has seen TikTok rise from its ashes as one of the most popular social media apps right now.
Source: Engadget