App.net Shuts Down But Its Code Lives On
App.net, the social network that promised to beat Twitter at its own game, is shutting down. App.net will cease to exist on March 15th, 2017. However, the code at the heart of the site will be open-sourced, enabling someone else to take on the challenge of battling Twitter. Maybe. In 2012, a social network called App.net launched. App.net was originally intended to be a platform for developers to showcase their applications, hence the name. However, founders Dalton Caldwell and Bryan Berg saw an opportunity to build a better version of Twitter, and App.net evolved. Caldwell and Berg crowdfunded the creation…
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