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Hello Twitter, Goodbye Pounce!

Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Laforge129 in Pownce

In a move that feels more like a cruel prank than a financial strategy, Six Apart has purchased Pownce–only to shut the company down. The blogging company acquired the micro-blogging site for an undisclosed sum before announcing that it would shut Pownce in a mere two weeks.

[via PcMag]

Although This is nothing to big because those who use Pownce was using just o play around with. People who are using Pownce will have to go back to Twitter or something other like Twit Army. If you have an account there you will need to start looking around for another social outlet. Some of the ones I like are on my About me page and should give you some ideas on where you look.

Although if Six Apart was smart they should of tried to Monitize the service but I guess they just wasted there money in buying Pounce. They wanted something else from the company that owned Pounce but not sure what.

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CitizenX

I am glad you covered this announcement. Being its Kevin Rose's 2nd internet baby, this is a big deal to see it shut down. Sold, but shut down.
I never understood its importance even though I signed up and used it at its conception.
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Glad you were only down for a short time, homie.
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