These all appeared in my Twitterstream today. Half of them were RTs. I follow wonderful, witty, smart people on Twiiter!
Tweets in order from latest to earliest.
ah crap, fb bought instagram, another app to remove..
— eBookNoir (@eBookNoir) April 9, 2012
Somewhere, right now, Larry Page is frantically searching the App Store for a viable competitor to Instagram he can buy for Google+.
— Steve Streza (@SteveStreza) April 9, 2012
MySpace acquires Hipstamatic for $100.
— tony king (@tonykingnyc) April 9, 2012
You know who's really pissed at this Insta-Face crap? Nokia & the 900. Talk of the town, now not even talked about. $1 Billion cock block.
— Brandon Steili (@brandonsteili) April 9, 2012
https://twitter.com/#!/thesaturdayboy/status/189417106125754368
One billion dollars for that thing that makes your photos look like a used fifty year old stamp. Amazing.
— Steve Mosby (@stevemosby) April 9, 2012
switching to a bigger server right now… hope this will help to keep the server up in the next hours… if not, please try it again later…
— Instaport (@instaport) April 9, 2012
Waiting for the inevitable "What does Facebook's acquisition of Instagram mean for publishing?" articles in 3…2…1…
— Don Linn (@DonLinn) April 9, 2012
So Pinterest is now worth what – $5b? $10b?
— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) April 9, 2012
Angry Birds toys and soda, Instagram acquisition after 551 days, Draw Something draws 1mn users in 9 days. It all started with fart apps.
— Horace Dediu (@asymco) April 9, 2012
Instagram, one billion dollars. Annie Leibovitz, broke. And that's our modern world in a nutshell.
— Tim Siedell (@badbanana) April 9, 2012
the only thing missing with the Instagram cinderella story is that they were not part of YC or some other accelerator
— Shai Goldman (@shaig) April 9, 2012
Facebook is not the Internet. Remember that.
— Lisa Brewster (@Adora) April 9, 2012
https://twitter.com/#!/jane_l/status/189413042415599618
How about a completely unexpected social media acquisition, like Sears buying Tumblr?
— Pantse Macabre (@giromide) April 9, 2012
Remember when shoddy photography tweaked to look like it was from 1974 was more valuable than feeding starving people? Ah, the good ol' days
— The Tyrus Books (@TyrusBooks) April 9, 2012
So long, and thanks for all the pics. pic.twitter.com/p1ycFY1t
— Wayne MacPhail (@wmacphail) April 9, 2012
Facebook paid approximately 30x more for Instagram than Yahoo paid for Flickr. Just saying.
— Mike Rundle (@flyosity) April 9, 2012
"We apologize for fucking you all, but they gave us ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD. Sorry. We're off to Tahiti. Peace." —Instagram
— mdhughes (@mdhughes) April 9, 2012
everyone get off instaport.me i was there first
— Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) April 9, 2012
THE FREE MARKET DEMANDED IT!! RT @MikeElk RT @dkberman: 551-day-old Instagram is worth $1 billion. 116-year-old NYT Co.: $967 million.
— THE REPUBLICAN DALEK (@RepublicanDalek) April 9, 2012
A photo sharing service bought another photo sharing service.
— David Pakman (@pakman) April 9, 2012
This dot bomb party is going to be so much better than the last one. Because, like, everything is different in the new new economy!
— DHH (@dhh) April 9, 2012
What is the price / revenue multiple when the revenue is 0?
— Max (@_CB01) April 9, 2012
Bet the owner of Hipstamatic will be crying himself to sleep tonight.
— Ernest Doku (@ErnestDoku) April 9, 2012
How much do you think it would cost to buy Angelfire and Geocities right now in a 2 for 1 deal? $100? $250?
— The Tyrus Books (@TyrusBooks) April 9, 2012
Man if you can make a billion from a bunch of badly processed photos I have two aunts who will be sleeping in a bed of money.
— Wayne MacPhail (@wmacphail) April 9, 2012
Anyone want to help me build a charming, simple, independent mobile photo sharing app? The market for those just opened up again.
— Rob Sheridan (@rob_sheridan) April 9, 2012
Facebook paid $1 billion for a free app that isn't ad-supported and has no (apparent) business model in place. Wow.
— erik malinowski (@erikmal) April 9, 2012
So who's going to plunk down more than a billion for Pinterest?
— Don Linn (@DonLinn) April 9, 2012
I will say this to everyone at Instagram. Wow, did you guys ever cash in. You won the internet. Congrats.
— Arjun Basu (@arjunbasu) April 9, 2012
All ur photos r belong to us! – Zuckerberg, right now, in his lair
— Arjun Basu (@arjunbasu) April 9, 2012
I can't believe $0 = $1 billion. I really hope this isn't real, because this is a gross miscalculation of reality.
— Brian Wong (@brian_wong) April 9, 2012
Kodak goes bankrupt and Instagram is worth a billion dollars. 2012, y'all.
— Ben Jacobs (@benhjacobs) April 9, 2012
Instagram acquisition: what apps have become.
— Horace Dediu (@asymco) April 9, 2012
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