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# Before SoundCloud Deal Died, Twitter Considered Acquiring Pandora and Spotify
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/before-soundcloud-deal-died-twitter-considered-acquiring-pandora-and-spotify/
- Published: 2014-06-05T10:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-06-05T10:45:00.000Z
- Description: Twitter certainly is on the hunt for a music strategy. We already knew they'd seriously considered buying SoundCloud. But now comes word that just months after closing #Music, Twitter also. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/06/before-soundcloud-deal-died-twitter-considered-acqu
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Tech, Social Media, Startups & Funding, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:38

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Twitter certainly is on the hunt for a music strategy. We already knew they'd seriously considered buying SoundCloud. But now comes word that just months after closing #Music, Twitter also took a hard look at acquiring Spotify and Pandora. Each deal was “worth billions of dollars,” according to the [Financial Times](%20http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7ad44fd2-ec08-11e3-ab1b-00144feabdc0.html). which would have made either Twitter’s largest acquisition to date.Related articles

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