Twitter acquires Squad, a screen-sharing social app

Twitter is buying Squad, a social media app constructed round customers’ means to share their screens with each other. 

“They’ll join our product, design, and eng teams and help accelerate our work to bring people new and creative tools to start and join conversations on the service,” tweeted Ilya Brown, head of product administration at Twitter, on Friday.

Unfortunately for followers of Squad, Twitter might be shutting down the display screen sharing service because it brings the Squad workforce into the fold, the corporate confirmed in an electronic mail.

The Squad acquisition follows a number of current strikes by Twitter to develop the corporate’s options into areas at the moment dominated by different companies. For instance, Twitter just lately launched a messaging format referred to as Fleets that robotically deletes messages after 24 hours and notifies customers if recipients take a screenshot, much like different ephemeral messaging instruments from Snapchat and Instagram. Twitter has additionally experimented with creating audio-sharing areas à la Clubhouse.

Financial phrases of the Squad deal weren’t disclosed.