Twitter Gets Little Sympathy Over Instagram's Pulled Photos
Instagram has pulled its integration with the Twitter “cards” display format, making viewing Instagram photos on the microblogging site much less appealing. The move highlights growing competition between the two networks since Instagram was acquired by Facebook in April. Twitter has played the aggressor in other integration wars, also increasingly pushing for its content to be viewed on its own website, and few tech insiders publicly shed any tears for the company.
Instagram has pulledits integration with the Twitter “cards” display format, making viewing Instagram photos on the microblogging site much less appealing.
The move highlights growing competition between the two networks since Instagram was acquired by Facebook in April. Twitter has played the aggressor in other integration wars — also increasingly pushing for its content to be viewed on its own website — and few tech insiders publicly shed any tears for the company.
Speaking at a conference in Paris, Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom reportedly
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