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Twitpic to shut down after failed acquisition

Twitpic users will be able to export their most recent 5,000 images until the shutdown date, after which the pictures will be lost.

By Aileen Graef
Twitpic logo/Twitpic
Twitpic logo/Twitpic

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Twitpic photo sharing service will shut down Oct. 25 after failing to be acquired and thus saved following a trademark complaint from Twitter.

The service originally announced the service would shut down on Sept. 4, but made a second announcement saying it had found someone to acquire the business and would continue to operate. Shortly after the second announcement was made, the deal fell through.

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The portent of shutdown doom began after Twitter accused the service of trademark infringement.

"During the 'published for opposition' phase of the trademark is when Twitter reached out to our counsel and implied we could be denied access to their API if we did not give up our mark," it wrote on its blog.

A little more than a month later, it posted the final death notice in a blog update.

It's with a heavy heart that I announce again that Twitpic will be shutting down on October 25th. We worked through a handful of potential acquirers and exhausted all potential options. We were almost certain we had found a new home for Twitpic (hence our previous tweet), but agreeable terms could not be met. Normally we wouldn't announce something like that prematurely but we were hoping to let our users know as soon as possible that Twitpic was living on.

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I'm sincerely sorry (and embarrassed) for the circumstances leading up to this, from our initial shutdown announcement to an acquisition false alarm.

Twitpic users will be able to export their most recent 5,000 images until the shutdown date, after which the pictures will be lost.

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