I guess the data mining was the missing ingredient for popularity?
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Maybe they saw it as an acqui-hire moment to get their staff, or at least keep them from going ro a conpetitor.
Of course, that assumes social media owners have clues and strategy; it seems like a lot of them were "we stumbled into vsast success, now what."