Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, February 19th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Twitter has acquired Chroma Labs, which makes tools for video and photo

creation, but there's a much more interesting story here. The TLDR is that maybe with this acquisition

Twitter could soon get its own version of stories, maybe. Here's why I'm making that

prediction. John Barnett, Alex Lee and Joshua Harris founded Chroma Labs.

Prior to Chroma, they were at Facebook working on projects such as the launch of

Instagram stories as well as augmented reality camera effects for Oculus.

Chroma's main product has been Chroma Stories, an app which basically gives you

templates to post collages and other things for your

Instagram stories, your Snapchat, and whatever else. Think of Chroma stories as

basically an editing suite to spruce up your posts before posting so you can do

social media really, really well.

Now it sounds like Twitter will be splitting the Chroma Labs team, all seven of them, among its product design and

engineering teams and the Chroma Stories iPhone app will be shutting down

so grab that if you like it. Splitting up the team across the Twitter organization makes it sound like this is an acuhire.

And as Josh Constein puts it, quote,

by snatching some of the smartest talent in visual storytelling,

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