Google buys Twitter’s developer platform Fabric

Google is acquiring Twitter’s app development platform Fabric, along with its developer team. Not just this, the search engine company is also taking over Twitter’s Crashlytics crash reporting system, Answers mobile app analytics, Digits SMS login system and FastLane development automation system. Financial details of the deals have not been disclosed.

Fabric was launched in 2014 to allow developers to pick and choose different tools to improve their apps, and it now serves apps reaching 2.5 billion users built by 580,000 developers.

“Today we enter the next chapter for Fabric and are pleased to announce that we’ve signed an agreement for Fabric to be acquired by Google and for our team to join Google’s Developer Products Group, working with the Firebase team,” said the Fabric team about the acquisition.

Crashlytics will become Firebase’s main crash reporting tool. Founded in 2011, Twitter acquired Crashlytics in 2013 for $38.2 million in common stock plus stock options that reportedly made the deal worth over $100 million. The service’s Co-founder Jeff Seibert, who joined Twitter after its acquisition of the service, will finally be leaving Crashlytics, which will be headed by Twitter’s VP of engineering Rich Paret.

Fabric’s sale to Google shows that Twitter is seriously streamlining its business. The company announced last year that it would double down on a few key initiatives while discontinuing others. Soon after, it announced the closure of Vine, which shut down earlier this week.