Sophie Blake
Twitter’s head of customer product Jay Sullivan announced Tuesday that the company has acquired OpenBack, a mobile marketing platform helping apps to engage with users through device-side control of push notifications.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
3/ OpenBack and their talented team joining Twitter will help us improve our ability to deliver the right notifications at the right time, in a way that puts people’s privacy first. We’re thrilled to have them join the flock and look forward to seeing their impact. Welcome! 🙌
— Jay Sullivan (@jaysullivan) April 12, 2022
Co-founded in 2015 by David Shackleton, Christian Ryder, and Nicolas Pabion, OpenBack provides a mobile marketing platform that improves how push notifications work, using client-side device-side data, mobile edge computing and machine learning.
We’re so excited about this; @christian_ryder, @theapprocks and I set out 6 years ago to try and make push notifications truly user first for billions of people in a new way, and this opportunity to work with @Twitter fulfils that in so many ways more than we ever imagined. https://t.co/VyKkA97939
— David Shackleton (@dshackleton) April 12, 2022
The OpenBack team will join Twitter and its platform will be shutting down on April 19, 2022.
“We are so grateful to all of our customers and supporters along the way as we’ve worked to make push notifications truly user first. With Twitter’s positive impact on the world, we are very excited to become part of the Twitter team and continuing building the future of notifications there,” OpenBack says in its website.
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