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JUL 8

With Summize, Twitter To Buy a Clue

GigaOM, July 8, 2008 — The big buzz of the evening is that Twitter, a San Francisco-based start-up that allows anyone to post short up to 140 character messages to its platform and thus broadcast them to one or many using different media such as web and mobile, is about to acquire Summize, a Potomac Falls, VA-based start-up that uses the Twitter API to search and find relevant messages on Twitter.

Category: New Media Marketing
Tag: Twitter

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