Twitter acquires display camouflage-sharing and video chat startup Squad

On Friday, Twitter announced the acquisition of Squad, an app that enables you to half your display camouflage and video chat with mates at the same time. In preserving with TechCrunch, the complete workers, including co-founders Esther Crawford and Ethan Sutin, will join the firm as half of the deal. In a Medium post, Crawford stated Twitter plans to leverage her workers’s expertise in audio and video. The group is “having a survey forward to constructing contemporary formats that enable for relaxing, meaningful and enticing conversations,” she stated. Twitter didn’t expose the terms of the acquisition and didn’t sing if the agreement incorporated Squad’s tech.

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