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Disney almost bought Twitter in 2016

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Re: Disney almost bought Twitter in 2016

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Post by efreak »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #40
mandeepj wrote: post #24

Google also almost bought Twitter. I guess the year was 2009.

I expect they planned to shut it down in 2011.

Not quite. More likely they'd rebrand it, make some minor cosmetic changes, then neglect it until only a hardcore group of fans remained. Then they'd forget it exists.

Re: Disney almost bought Twitter in 2016

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Post by vl »

vl wrote: post #35
mc32 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah there was no way that that union would have worked. They might as well have contemplated buying Reddit. Imagine if it became a sanitized family friendly microblogging platform where it was all pure, clean, fun conversation, anything not sparkly clean got knocked off. That would have ensured its death and would have shrunk to maybe 10MM users total.

Disney owns extremely diversified portfolio of companies, including, for example UFC and ESPN. They would manage Twitter just fine.

(To clarify, Disney owns ESPN, which has exclusive distribution deal with UFC.)
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