Twitter just sold its developer platform to Google

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(Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at Twitter Flight 2015Twitter)

Google has purchased Fabric, Twitter's platform for developers to build apps, for an undisclosed sum, according to a blog entry.

Fabric, which encompasses mega-popular tools for building mobile apps like Crashlytics, Answers and Fastlane, will become a part of Google's Developer Tools Division, joining the search giant's similarly-focused Firebase business.

In that blog entry, Twitter says that over 580,000 developers have used Fabric's tools since the platform was introduced in 2014, powering apps on some 2.5 million mobile devices.

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