Cover is joining Twitter

"For now, Cover will remain available in the Play Store while we focus our attention on our work at Twitter. If that changes down the road, we’ll provide another update here."

tl;dr: Cover will die a slow, unmaintained death while the former Cover employees work on completely unrelated Twitter projects. Oh well.

Re: Cover is joining Twitter

#6

Post by Touche » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 4:36 PM UTC

jboynyc wrote: post #3

A trope that refuses to die: "It’s been an incredible journey".

Only in the start-up world do you call a few months a "journey". But as I'm sure they got very little sleep it probably felt like a journey for them. Cover only launched (invite-only) in late October.

Re: Cover is joining Twitter

#7

Post by k-mcgrady » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 4:40 PM UTC

Damn. This was one of the few apps that made me prefer Android over iOS. It's highly likely it's now going to die (the only thing Twitter gains from this is the team, the app has no relevance to them). It also probably means my one major annoyance with the app won't be fixed. It changes to work settings based on location but I work from home. Was hoping they would add a setting to set it to work between certain hours.

Re: Cover is joining Twitter

#8

Post by PavlovsCat » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 4:42 PM UTC

jboynyc wrote: post #3

A trope that refuses to die: "It’s been an incredible journey".

Same for believing in rather mundane things, visions of rather mundane things, and writing a billion paragraphs about a thing only using sentences you could say about anything else, too - leaving the reader with exactly zero information as to what you're actually talking about. Writing as well as reading such blurbs could and should be automated.

Re: Cover is joining Twitter

#9

Post by k-mcgrady » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 4:42 PM UTC

GuiA wrote: post #5

"For now, Cover will remain available in the Play Store while we focus our attention on our work at Twitter. If that changes down the road, we’ll provide another update here." tl;dr: Cover will die a slow, unmaintained death while the former Cover employees work on completely unrelated Twitter projects. Oh well.

Hopefully it leads to improvements in the Twitter for Android app. Compared with the iOS version it's abysmal (IMO).

Re: Cover is joining Twitter

#10

Post by minimaxir » Mon, Apr 07, 2014, 4:43 PM UTC

An acquihire for a startup which had received $1.7M investment is probably not a great success.