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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
11 Nov 2016 Acquired The Facebook IPO
“I think Twitter had already bought Tweetie, so the iOS client for Twitter was exceptional at the time.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The Facebook IPO
Transcript context
…I mean, this was in tech years, 4 plus years ago, 4 ½ years ago, a long time, but it’s not like the mobile ecosystem was undeveloped at this point in time. There were apps like Uber existed. There was no excuse for not having… I think Twitter had already bought Tweetie, so the iOS client for Twitter was exceptional at the time. Tweetie became the native app. To put this in perspective, where they had no ability to monetize on mobile at this point and they – So one-half of the huge gaping chest wound that Facebook had at this point was the app sucked. Then the other half was they had no monetization. They made no money from mobile.…
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