Twitpic lives - saved by a yet-to-be-announced group
Photo-sharing platform Twitpic has announced its return from the dead having been been saved by a yet-to-be-named source following its Twitter-enforced closure, earlier this month following a trademark dispute with Twitter.
Twitpic has returned from the dead
Twitpic met its end after Twitter served the firm legal notice demanding it abandoned a trademark application under pain of losing access to the code that allows its users to share snaps over Twitter.
The service revealed the acquisition on Thursday afternoon on the Twitpic Twitter account. The message did state which group made the purchase or the cost of the purchase although the photo-sharing service did say it will release more details as the deal is finalised.
We're happy to announce we've been acquired and Twitpic will live on! We will post more details as we can disclose them
— TwitPic (@TwitPic) September 18, 2014
Company founder Noah Everett will be pleased with the result after he called the Twitter-enforced closure "unexpected and hard”.
A rumour has emerged on social media that it is in actual fact Twitter which has acquired the service to stop it from closure. This comes after the social media site said it was “sad to see Twitpic shutting down” earlier this month.
The Drum has reached out to Twitpic and is awaiting a response.
When it was launched Twitpic was the leading third-party platform for Twitter users to link to images in tweets. Had it shut down, all Twitter image embeds created using the service would have broken.