Branch

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Branch was a discussion service that was acquired by Facebook in 2014, and eventually shut down (2015) as predicted by Tantek Çelik in 2013.

Their domain branch.com is non-functional as of 2024 (perhaps longer ago? needs Internet Archive sleuthing).

• 2013-03-14: Tantek Çelik predicted that his reply on his own site will outlast branch: https://web.archive.org/web/20140731143212/http://branch.com/b/why-are-silos-beating-the-light-out-of-an-open-social-web#xFzT_lWxBEQ

  I see what you did there, trolling us to debate silos vs the open social web on a silo.
  
  Point by point reply, blogged:
  
  tantek.com
  
  (where it will likely last longer than this branch post).

  Emphasis added.

Articles

• 2014-01-13 The Verge Facebook acquires link-sharing service Branch for around $15 million

See Also

• site-deaths#Branch
• note: no Wikipedia article (as of 2024-10-20) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/branch.com — so feel free to use this page to document Branch in general until there is enough to create a Wikipedia article that will survive deletionists!
• http://tantek.com/2015/159/t1/branch-replied-my-site-last-longer
  • "@brianoberkirch 2y ago you posted @Branch, I replied on my site “where it will likely last longer”.
    
    It did: http://tantek.com/2013/073/b1/silos-vs-open-social-web
    
    vs.
    
    http://branch.com/b/why-are-silos-beating-the-light-out-of-an-open-social-web
    
    “
    After more than three years of great conversations, our team has decided to shut down Branch.com. Before we go, we want to let you download the full text of all your posts and branches you joined.
    
    ( Sign in with Twitter to Download )
    
    Keep bringing people together, and keep talking to each other. Thanks for all the conversations.
    ”
    
    As reported by TechCrunch:
    * http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/03/bye-branch/
    
    Internet Archive:
    * https://web.archive.org/web/20140731143212/http://branch.com/b/why-are-silos-beating-the-light-out-of-an-open-social-web" @Tantek Çelik June 8, 2015
• https://tantek.com/2015/259/t2/branch-dead-my-post-won-predicted
  • "@kevinmarks will be dead? #Branch funded by @ev @obviousvc *is* dead. My post won, as predicted tantek.com/2015/159/t1/branch-replied-my-site-last-longer" @Tantek Çelik September 16, 2015