Twitter Cuts Ribbon App Shortly After Launch; CEO Goes On Offensive To Competitors' Delight
What would you do if you launched an app capable of processing payments without ever leaving Twitter and it was immediately shut down by Twitter?
Well, if you were the CEO of Ribbon, you’d tell the world about it and make Twitter (collectively speaking) look like a jerk.
And if you were the CEO of Chirpify, a Twitter payment processing competitor, you’d likely grin from ear to ear over this decision.
Hany Rashwan, Co-founder & CEO of Ribbon blogged about the experience, saying (in part) that a little over an hour after it launched and “with no heads up, our integration of Twitter Cards was taken down, and now Ribbon links go back to Ribbon.co
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