Twitter Fabric
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Fabric was Twitter's mobile developer platform, launched in 2014 as a modular SDK suite built around Crashlytics (crash reporting) and Answers (mobile analytics), plus Digits for SMS authentication and Fastlane tooling. Aimed at helping app developers build, monitor and monetize mobile apps, it grew to serve apps reaching 2.5 billion active devices built by 580,000 developers. In January 2017, as Twitter slimmed down to refocus on its core service, Google acquired Fabric and folded it into Firebase, its Developer Products Group offering; the Fabric team joined Google, while Twitter retained Digits through the transition.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Launched
Twitter launches Fabric in 2014 as a modular mobile developer SDK.
- Acquired
In January 2017 Google acquires Fabric and folds it into Firebase; financial terms undisclosed.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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