Re:Twitpic Data Will Stay Alive “For Now” Thanks to an Agree...
by hkmurakami on Sunday October 26, 2014 @12:49AM
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I'm not sure if this is logical or reasonable for me to think this way, but this whole fiasco is evocative of a terrorist threat.
I know that Twitpic "owns" the data and isn't beholden to users or Twitter, but their attitude really reminds me of a hostage situation.
Re:Twitpic Data Will Stay Alive “For Now” Thanks to an Agree...
by jacquesm on Sunday October 26, 2014 @05:46AM
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If you upload your data to a server then that data ceases to be under your control. This is the major downside of any cloud based service and you're going to have to decide before you upload/invest if that's what you want to do.
Terrorist threats hit random bystanders in violent ways, this has 0 to do with any of that, everybody involved should have known what they were getting into.
The will-they-won't-they nature of this shutdown is only being dragged out in an attempt to get an infusion of cash or a small acquisition (that would still be relatively large for the remaining stakeholders).
In other words, there was probably an expectation of acquisition before, it didn't happen, money got scarce and now there's a short sale. I don't know if it will work, but if not it will be a long time before the data is opened up for posterity.