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Twitter Buys Mixer Labs For Geolocation Services

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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.'"

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  1. How about attaching URLs? by MBCook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about making it so users can attach a URL with a tweet so people don't have to use URL shorteners?

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  2. Seriously by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  3. So by rantingkitten · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A useless company offering a useless service bought a worthless company that produces a tack-on worthless service to the first company's useless service, using investor's money since they have no revenue of their own and seemingly never will.

    Fascinating.

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  4. They should do something about the spam instead by Snaller · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's what is going to kill them.

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  5. Where did Twitter get the money? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I still don't understand the Twitter business model. Where did they get the money to buy another company?

  6. 8 Hours later. by bertoelcon · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Over eight Hours after this story is posted there is right around 20 comments. Maybe its just Christmas but I don't think anyone on Slashdot cares what Twitter does.

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