| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Twitter Makes Big Acquisition, Buys Social TV Analytics Company Bluefin Labs
— Twitter has acquired Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics company that was founded in 2008, sources say. Although we don't know the exact acquisition price, we were told this is Twitter's biggest acquisition to date.
| MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Loses Its Chief Scientist, Summize Co-Founder Abdur Chowdhury
— The turnover continues at Twitter. Following the exit of Biz Stone, the firing of four key product guys, and the departure of a number of early Twitter employees, we've learned that another big name has left the company: Chief Scientist Abdur Chowdhury.
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's First CTO Greg Pass Steps Down
— We're hearing rumors that Twitter CTO Greg Pass has as of today left his post at Twitter, according to a source familiar with the company. — Prior to becoming CTO, Pass held the VP of Engineering position at Twitter, after being CTO and co-founder at Summize …
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| Louis Gray: |
Twitter's Search Engine Is Very, Very, Broken
— Given all the rumors about Google possibly talking to Twitter about search, or the Mountain View giant taking on the world of real-time, you would think that Twitter's dramatic growth and user adoption would see the microblogging company sitting …
| Louis Gray: |
Twazzup Takes On Twitter Search to Make Sense of Real-Time Web
— Twitter's acquisition of Summize in 2008 gained the red-hot status update service arguably the most impactful new entrant into the Web 2.0 space last year, as the company looked to harness the millions of daily tweets flowing through its system and make sense of it all.
| Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: |
Top Search Terms on Twitter Since July 2008: Sleep.fm, Ezinearticles, and GaryVee
— Twitter users clearly love the social alarm clock Sleep.fm, the Vaynerchuk brothers, Chris Knight, and ezinearticles. At least, according to search analytics firm Compete, which aggregated …
| Harrison Hoffman / The Web Services Report: |
Twitter accidentally reveals search integration?
— Twitter Search integration? — (Credit: Twitter on Get Satisfaction) — We've assumed that Twitter would be integrating Twitter Search (formerly Summize) into the main site for awhile now. It seems that Twitter has accidentally confirmed this integration.
| Dan Farber / Outside the Lines: |
Track coming back to Twitter
— A trio of Twitter executives—Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Alex Payne—showed up at the BearHug Camp, held at CNET headquarters in San Francisco, to answer questions about the future of the service, such as when the “track” feature would return.
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