On August 20, Hot Potato the microblogging service announced that it will be shutting down since it has been bought by Facebook. It has been long rumored that Facebook would be acquiring them and now it has happened. Hot Potato was a micro-blogging service based on events and only events. You could really write anything else unlike Twitter. Facebook usually acquires companies like this because of talent within them. When I used Hot Potato in the short time it was around, it did grow on me but it never really integrated itself into my daily life. There was no app my phone so I could post on the go. It was an interesting site but not really one that was commonly used. It was just another failed startup in my opinion. so I guess we could say that it's good that they were acquired by Facebook. But I'll miss being able to say that I was watching Saturday Night Live at one o'clock in the morning. Goodbye Hot Potato, I barely knew ye.
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