Acquisitions

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Posterous: what happens to a publishing community after an acquisition | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: How Posterous made blogging as simple as sending an email, why the Twitter acquisition turned out to be the end of the platform, and what its writers were able to carry out when it shut down in 2013.

Platform acquisitions that remove meaningful alternatives | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: An acquisition can preserve a rival, improve it, absorb it, or shut it down; the competitive effect depends on what actually happens to the product and its users afterward.