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Twylah

Killed by the very platform it depended on

platform dependencyRegulatory Kill

Forced closure by regulatory action · Fatal mistake: Built the entire product on Twitter's API without any independent data layer, leaving no defense when Twitter restricted third-party access in 2012.

Founded	2010
Closed	2014
Country	USA
Sector	Social

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2010-01-01

FOUNDING

Twylah launched as a tool to create branded, topic-organized pages from Twitter feeds.

2011-06-01

FUNDING

Twylah received its last known funding and gained recognition in social media marketing circles.

2012-08-01

REGULATORY ACTION

Twitter's new API restrictions dramatically limited what third-party tools could do, crippling Twylah's core functionality.

2014-01-01

SHUTDOWN

Twylah quietly shut down, unable to sustain operations after losing its core value proposition to Twitter's own features.

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Twylah was a social media startup that created branded Twitter pages aggregating users' tweets by topic, positioning itself as a personal branding tool for individuals and businesses. The company's failure was ...

driven primarily by structural changes in Twitter's platform strategy. Around 2012, Twitter implemented API restrictions that significantly limited third-party applications' ability to access and mani

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