Twitter acquires Values of n
From the archive: published Nov 24, 2008, 17 years ago. Details may have changed since.
Twitter has acquired Values of n, the company behind the email tools Skkiit and Sandy.
Twitter head Evan Williams said in a post to the Twitter Blog that the acquisition was part for the intellectual property, part to acquire the services of Values of n’s Rael Dornfest. Dornfest is a former Chief Technology Officer at O’Reilly Media and was an early participant in the emergence of RSS. Dornfest joins the Twitter team as an engineer.
Values of n clients though wont be happy with the deal: Twitter will shut down both Skikit and Sandy December 8. Williams notes that the technology behind the two may be used in future to improve Twitter.