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"There may have been champagne and celebration at Instagram and Facebook early Monday when their $1 billion acquisition deal was announced. But there was little joy in Twitterville.\nTwitter sentiment analysis firm Crimson Hexagon looked at 200,000 tweets that mentioned the deal \u2014 and found that just 12% of them registered any sort of approval. Some 18% of users were simply in shock. And a whopping 35% were furious, mostly at Facebook. \nWe saw some clues Monday that Instagram users were heading for the exits after the announcement, using services that help you download your Instagram photos before deleting your account. According to this analysis, roughly 40,000 Twitter users declared that they had deleted their account or removed the app from their phone. \n\nWhy all the negativity, man? Well, Twitter is a good place for capturing instant emotional reactions, and a beloved app like Instagram certainly inspires a lot of those. (Mashable entertainment editor Christina Warren yesterday described her \"InstaEmo\" moment; she was by no means alone.)\nBut there's something else going on here. If anyone is likely to lose big from Facebook's purchase of Instagram, it is Twitter users.\nAs regular Instagrammers know, one of the first choices you have to make in sharing your photo \u2014 after you've applied tilt shift and filters \u2014 is which social network you're going to share it with. \nThe two big sharing choices? Twitter and Facebook. No prizes for guessing which of those options may disappear, should Facebook get its way. \nOf course, Facebook has gone out of its way to assure users that sort of thing won't happen. \"We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks,\" wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his blog post announcing the acquisition. \nAnd there's always the chance that Facebook's resources could make Instagram better than before.\nDoes the Instagram purchase herald a new cold war between Twitter and Facebook? Let us know your thoughts in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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