Twitter Buys Mixer Labs For Geolocation Services 25
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from the precise-location-of-every-inane-detail dept.
itwbennett writes "In a blog entry Wednesday, a Twitter official wrote that the company has acquired Mixer Labs, maker of GeoAPI, a service that helps developers build geolocation-aware applications for Twitter. 'Software using the service will allow Twitter users to tag the location where a message was written,' Agam Shah writes in an article on ITworld. 'Twitter did not immediately respond to comment on how much it paid for Mixer Labs.'"
How about attaching URLs? (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously (Score:1, Insightful)
Who uses Twitter anyway and why is Biz Stone some sort of genius worshipped in the social media/web 2.0 world?
Getting pwned by Iranians isn't something to be proud of.
So (Score:1, Insightful)
Fascinating.
They should do something about the spam instead (Score:3, Insightful)
That's what is going to kill them.
Where did Twitter get the money? (Score:1, Insightful)
I still don't understand the Twitter business model. Where did they get the money to buy another company?
8 Hours later. (Score:2, Insightful)