Twitter Acquires Structure Agency Ueno

Twitter has acquired Ueno, a design agency, a weblog article from company CEO and Founder Haraldur Thorleifsson mentioned.

Thorleifsson mentioned in the submit that the firm, which was founded in late 2013, to start with worked with Twitter in 2019, when a mate of his, Dantley Davis, who labored at Twitter, contacted him for support.

“The following number of months we labored to aid build a new vision and item technique for 1 of the cornerstone teams at Twitter,” Thorleifsson explained in the post. “After some early hiccups the project became a huge achievement. So considerably so that a number of hrs right after the govt assessment I received an additional DM from Dantley. This time inquiring if we would look at signing up for Twitter.”

Right after that, Ueno and Twitter ongoing to work on assignments “on a quantity of new streams aiding their product and brand groups,” in accordance to the put up.

Thorleifsson mentioned in the post that the pandemic has afflicted Ueno, and that layoffs took place. He wrote that in excess of the study course of the earlier many months, his dialogue with his friend progressed into eventually just asking about merging with the social media large.

In signing up for with Twitter, Thorleifsson explained he is “proud we are equipped to leave on a high observe. I really feel like we gained the agency video game and there have been no much more items to verify. No a lot more worlds to conquer,” in accordance to the publish.

This isn’t really the only acquisition Twitter has produced a short while ago. Before this 7 days, the corporation announced its obtain of podcast app Breaker. The app is set to shut down Jan. 15 as the founders make their shift to function with Twitter on how it’s facilitating public conversations globally.

Breaker’s founders reported the environment of podcast-web hosting apps had grown so significantly in the time given that it was fashioned four decades back that customers likely would not have a challenging time getting a better choice.

In addition, Twitter bought Squad, an application used to share screens between pals and hang out nearly — a provider probably employed far more because the pandemic commenced.