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 Send to email | Twitter Buys Twitter Search Engine Summize -- Or Not? in General |  By Silicon
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 Twitter has acquired Twitter search engine Summize -- or has it?
The deal was first reported by English blogger Josh Chandler; Path 101 founder Charlie O'Donnell confirms the deal on his blog, but doesn't cite any sources. Meanwhile, a source close to the company tells us it's not true.
So we don't know what to believe, but it sounds plausible -- Summize's real-time Twitter search is a nice feature that Twitter doesn't have. And Summize has helped Twitter out in the past -- when Twitter's "replies" feature went dead a few weeks ago, Twitter officially recommended using Summize as a quick fix.
If true, it's a great start for John Borthwick's Betaworks, which invested in Summize early on. Summize describes itself as a "sentiment mining" startup and is based in Northern Virginia.
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| NY Tech Meetup Preview: A Twofer For Betaworks |  Don't think we've seen this before: Two companies backed by the same ... group of investors* presenting at the same NY Tech Meetup.
Firefly, a cool display app for Websites, and Summize, a Twitter search engine, are two of the 14 companies that have gotten funding from John Borthwick's Betaworks since last fall. We've just started using Summize, and find it to be a pretty good u [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-May-2008 by Silicon in General
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| fav.or.it Founder Fires at Twitter and the Blogosphere, Fixes Twitter for Free |  Call it a modern anomaly, herd mentality or whatever else you want but Twitter seems to continue to grow in popularity as its downtime issues get more pronounced. Amidst recent news of a successful funding round, Twitter’s problems keep getting worse as buzz throughout the blogosphere questions Twitter’s staying power. Is it really that hard [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-May-2008 by Zach Epstein in NetworksServicesdowntimefav.or.itNick HalsteadstabilityTwitter
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| Twitter Mainstream? Not Yet | | "A source close" to Twitter provides TechCrunch with what is supposedly the first realistic assessment of Twitter usage stats. Conclusion: It's a lot more popular than it used to be, but still con [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Apr-2008 by Silicon in General
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| Building Your Twitter Presence Part 3 - TweetBaiting |  Last week in my 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence post John suggested that an additional strategy to grow your follower numbers in Twitter is to target bigger Twitter users for conversation.
The logic behind this is that if you can get them to reply to you and even have a multiple part conversation with [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Social Media
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