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Did Twitter Bail On IM App?

  • BuzzFeed, Thursday, December 15, 2016 2:34 PM
Twitter reportedly spent over a year developing an instant messaging app for emerging markets, but ultimately scrapped the project. “Built at Twitter’s Indian engineering center in Bengaluru, the stand-alone messaging app -- which blended tweets and instant messages in a single interface -- was conceived as a sort of new user on-ramp to Twitter proper,” BuzzFeed reports. “But the company killed it in September when it shut down its India engineering center.”

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