Stowe Boyd: Surprise! Twitter Ecosystem Attracting Less Investment

For a piece coming from an analyst firm with the work ‘insight’ in its name, you’d expect a bit more insight offered and not just numbers.

CB Insights has determined that ‘pure play’ twitter start-ups are getting less funding than formerly:

As Twitter’s popularity has grown with users, we wondered if this popularity translated into more investment by venture capitalists and angel investors into pure play Twitter startups? 

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Read the whole piece. I suspected this would happen when Twitter acquired Tweetie and made it a free app of its own. However, my main interest in this whole thing now is what Twitter will actually do next, vis-à-vis Pro accounts and analytics.

Source: cbinsights.com