Twitter Acquires Summize Search Engine
It turns out the rumors last week about Twitter acquiring Summize were accurate. Micro-blogging site Twitter has acquired Summize—an extraordinary search tool and an amazing group of engineers, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams confirmed.
Summize is a popular service for searching Twitter and keeping up with emerging trends in real-time. Like Twitter, Summize offers an API so other products and services can filter the constant queue of updates in a variety of ways. The Summize service and API will be merged with that of Twitter and integrated under the Twitter brand. So here is a sketch of search inside Twitter:
Twitter will be adding search and its related features to the core offering of Twitter in the very near future. In the meantime, you can access the Twitter Search Engine at search.twitter.com.
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