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Twitter

Created in 2006, Twitter is a global real-time communications platform with 400 million monthly visitors to twitter.com, more than 200 million monthly active users around the world.

We see a billion tweets every 2.5 days on every conceivable topic. World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations and entertainment outlets are among the millions of active Twitter accounts through which users can truly get the pulse of the planet.

Recent Milestones

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  Twitter acquired Lucky Sort. (5/13/13)
  Posted 5/13/13 at 6:38pm via dowjones.com
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  Twitter acquired Ubalo. (5/9/13)
  Posted 5/11/13 at 2:42am via techcrunch.com
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  Twitter acquired Bluefin Labs for $80M. (2/4/13)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 4:36am via bostinno.com
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  Twitter added Jeff Seibert as Director of Engineering. (1/28/13)
  Posted 2/3/13 at 11:43am
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  Twitter acquired Crashlytics for $100M. (1/28/13)
  Posted 1/28/13 at 6:58pm via xconomy.com
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  Twitter added Alex Roetter as VP, Engineering. (1/1/13)
  Posted 3/16/13 at 8:34am
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  Twitter added Wayne Chang as General Manager, Crashlytics. (1/1/13)
  Posted 2/24/13 at 8:51am
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  Twitter added Russ Laraway as Director, SMB. (12/3/12)
  Posted 2/28/13 at 10:54am
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  Twitter added Sam Pullara as Advisor-Engineering and Corporate Development. (11/1/12)
  Posted 4/9/13 at 11:32pm
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  Twitter added Ran Enrico Magen as Software Engineer. (10/29/12)
  Posted 3/1/13 at 9:35am
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  Twitter acquired Cabana. (10/18/12)
  Posted 10/18/12 at 11:25pm via finsmes.com
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  Twitter acquired Vine for $30M. (10/9/12)
  Posted 10/9/12 at 7:57pm via allthingsd.com
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  Twitter added Ron Pragides as Director of Engineering. (9/1/12)
  Posted 9/5/12 at 8:35pm
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  Twitter acquired Clutch.io. (8/13/12)
  Posted 8/13/12 at 2:15pm via techcrunch.com
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  Twitter added Menotti Minutillo as Technical Program Manager. (8/13/12)
  Posted 11/15/12 at 4:19pm
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  Twitter added Andrew Seigner as Engineering Manager. (7/1/12)
  Posted 9/17/12 at 10:36pm

Videos

Screenshots

Above: Twitter User Profile Page
Uploaded: 11/8/12

Products

Twicco

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Website	https://twitter.com/advhydrautech
Blog	advancehydrautech.wordpress.com
Stage	In Development
Launch Date	November 4, 2009
Closed Date	July 31, 2009

Twicco.jp is a group and community feature for Twitter (currently available only in Japan). In Loic Le Meur’s demo video you can see it lets users create and follow a group instead of an individual account. Twitter Japan, a joint venture with Digital Garage, was already differentiating itself from the US version with ads in the feeds and therefor a monetization option right from the beginning.

Above: Twicco Homepage
Uploaded: 11/5/08

Videos

Above:

Loic Le Meur demo’s Twicco

Twitter Blocks

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Closed Date	2010
Tags	socialnetworking

Twitter Blocks is a real-time visualization tool for recent updates from a user’s friends and their friends’ network of friends (and their friends’ friends’ network of friends, etc.).

Above: Twitter Blocks Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Sources

1. Twitter Acquires Data-Mining Startup Lucky Sort (pevc.dowjones.com) []
2. Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo (techcrunch.com) []
3. How Twitter Came to Boston: The Story Behind Two Very Different Acquisitions (bostinno.com) []
4. Crashlytics Tops $100M (xconomy.com) []
5. Twitter Acquires Cabana (finsmes.com) []
6. Jack Dorsey Still Has Pull at Twitter. Just Ask the Vine Guys. (allthingsd.com) []
7. Twitter Strengthens Its Mobile Platform: Buys A/B App Tester Clutch.io, Shutting Down Service In November (techcrunch.com) []
8. Twitter Acquires Social Analytics Startup Hotspots.io (techcrunch.com) []
9. What Twitter & LinkedIn’s Recent Acquisitions Tells Us About Their Plans (simplyzesty.com) []
10. Twitter Just Acquired A Huge Anti-Spam Startup (businessinsider.com) []
11. Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Social News Startup Summify (tctechcrunch2011.wordpress.com) []
12. Twitter acquires Android security startup Whisper Systems (venturebeat.com) []
13. Twitter Acquires Julpan, The Startup By The Guy Who Helped Perfect Google Search (techcrunch.com) []
14. Twitter Acquires List Sharing And Discovery Platform Bagcheck, Sam Pullara Joins Engineering Team (techcrunch.com) []
15. Twitter Acquires Social Analytics Platform BackType (techcrunch.com) []
16. Twitter Said To Acquire Adgrok (ibtimes.com) []
17. Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million - $50 Million (techcrunch.com) []
18. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) []
19. Twitter Buys Analytics Startup Smallthought Systems (paidcontent.org) []
20. TechCrunch []
21. Twitter Buys Cloudhopper To Bolster Its SMS Service (techcrunch.com) []
22. Twitter Blog (blog.twitter.com) []
23. Twitter Acquires Mixer Labs To Step Up Geo-Location (techcrunch.com) []
24. Values of n Blog (valuesofn.com) []
25. Twitter Buys Summize For About $15M: Gets Search - And Maybe A Business Model Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/7/twitter-buys-summize-for-about-15m-stock-and-cash (businessinsider.com) []
26. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
27. Twitter Announces Their Funding, Calls Itself A Communication Utility (techcrunch.com) []
28. Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others (techcrunch.com) []
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31. http://www.altassets.net/private-equity-news/article/nz17642.html (altassets.net) []
32. Twitter starts buzz with reported $400M VC round (masshightech.com) []
33. Twitter Closing Its $400M Secondary Offering Tomorrow (techcrunch.com) []
Twitter Fails To Fail, Community Rejoices (techcrunch.com) []
Twitter Partners With Summize to Cover Apple News (techcrunch.com) []
What's Going On? (blog.twitter.com) []
Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers (techcrunch.com) []
VP Lee Mighdoll Out At Twitter, Business Plan Still MIA (techcrunch.com) []
Amateur Hour Over At Twitter? (techcrunch.com) []
Twitter! Japan! Ads! (techcrunch.com) []
Twitter Saves Man From Egyptian Justice (techcrunch.com) []
Introducing John Adams and Rudy (blog.twitter.com) []
Odeo Releases Twttr (techcrunch.com) []
twitter.com []
Twitter has 190 million users and they tweet 65 million times a day. (businessinsider.com) []
Twitter handles 800 million search queries per day, (businessinsider.com) []
Twitter Now Over 145 Million Users, Almost 300,000 Apps (techcrunch.com) []
businessinsider.com []
Twitter Raising New Venture Round at $3 Billion Valuation (techcrunch.com) []
Twitter's Huge New Round Of Funding From Kleiner Perkins Will Close Next Week (businessinsider.com) []
Andreessen Horowitz Invests $80 Million In Twitter (businessinsider.com) []
Twitter's Biz Stone: "We Are Not Valued At $10 Billion" (techcrunch.com) []
Twitter And Mediasift Partner To Resell Firehose Data (techcrunch.com) []
Twitter Close To Acquiring AdGrok (techcrunch.com) []
Twitter Reaches 200 Million Tweets A Day, But How Many Come From Bots? (techcrunch.com) []
Twitter confirms investment from Facebook, Zynga investor DST (venturebeat.com) []
Twitter Reaches New Milestone: 100 Million Users (More Than Half On Mobile) (paidcontent.org) []