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Twitter Acquires Social Analytics Startup Hotspots.io
- paulhauggis 15y agoWhen I see things like this, it makes me feel like some people create startups as a way to get a job at a big companay.
- wtracy 15y agoYes. There's even a name for it: It's called an "acqui-hire".
- Wilya 15y agoTo be completely honest, if all you want is get a job at a big company, directly applying is probably more efficient than creating a startup. You don't get the same welcome package, though.
- oacgnol 15y agoExcept it's not just a job, in all likelihood they get a payout from being acquired as well.
- siavosh 15y agoWith acquisitions like this and backtype, I wonder if Twitter is exploring offering an enterprise service for analytics. It provide a revenue alternative to the (still) annoying in-feed promoted tweets.
- joelrunyon 15y agoAm I the only one a little disappointed backtype disappeared? With twitter's search function as poor as it is + google no longer indexing their database of updates, it's incredibly hard to find any tweet more than a month old or so. I was hoping with the acquisition of backtype, they'd at least integrate the service into the native twitter interface/service.
- bobsil1 15y agoI thought Backtype now powers search.twitter.com, is that incorrect? But yeah, it's still really limited.
- joelrunyon 15y agoI'm not sure that it does. Backtype seemed much more powerful than twitter's search function currently is. I would be surprised if it regressed that much (although, I really don't know).