Twitter sells developer platform to Google

Fabric, Twitter's development platform, is now owned by Google, as announced on the Fabric blog on January 18 and confirmed by Twitter's product manager Jeff Seibert in a recent message.

Twitter acquired Fabric in 2014. According to the social network, Fabric is “a decoupled mobile platform” designed to help app developers improve the stability, delivery, monetization, and features of their products. Fabric enables everything from embedding Twitter messages into other apps to logging in with Twitter credentials.

Twitter has now sold Fabric to Google. Following the acquisition, Fabric is expected to merge with the US tech giant's Firebase development platform.

"We quickly realized that our missions remain the same: to help teams build better mobile apps, understand their users better, and grow their businesses. Fabric and Firebase power mobile platforms that are uniquely powerful in the market today. And if you're a Fabric customer, don't worry, the platform will continue to operate as usual. You'll just need to agree to the new terms of service," the Fabric management team said in a statement.

For its part, Twitter plans to continue investing in public application programming interfaces (APIs) and platform products for publishers, including Twitter Kit, TweetDeck, the Ads API, MoPub, and Gnip.

However, the company has also begun notifying its e-commerce customers that it will soon remove in-app purchase buttons, moving toward a gradual end to Twitter’s e-commerce operations. However, the company will continue to allow users to donate to charitable causes in the near future.

According to VNN