Twitter acquires Summize
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The Twitter blog has revealed that Twitter has has acquired Summize—a search tool for twitter. All five Summize engineers will move to San Francisco, CA and take jobs at Twitter, Inc.
Twitter had previously introduced a feature called Track close to a year ago because for filtering - a key component of the Twitter experience. The Summize team significantly improved on the idea of filtering and search. Twitter and Summize met last month to discuss a more formal relationship.
There is an undeniable need to search, filter, and otherwise interact with the volumes of news and information being transmitted to Twitter every second. We will be adding search and its related features to the core offering of Twitter in the very near future.
Details of the deal were not revealed. However, rumors are that Twitter gave away 10% of the company to acquire Summize.
People can start with twitter search at search.twitter.com—there’s no need for a Twitter account!
SOURCE: Twitter
