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Finding A Perfect Match
Last month, Twitter had a very special date in New York City. We met with another startup, had lunch at the famous Shake Shack, and spent some quality time together in Union Square. The meeting with this other startup was largely a formality—we had already fallen in love with both the technology and the team.Keeping up with interesting news and people you care about is one dimension of Twitter, but what if you need to find out what’s happening in the world beyond your personal timeline? How do you find out about updates from Mars? What do people think of the new Will Smith movie? Providing tools for filtering all the real-time information coursing through Twitter has long been part of our vision.
We introduced a feature called Track close to a year ago because we recognized filtering as a key component of the Twitter experience. The folks over at Summize discovered Twitter and significantly improved on this idea of filtering and search. Twitter and Summize met last month to discuss a more formal relationship.
CEO Jack Dorsey makes it officialWe’re excited to announce that Twitter has acquired Summize—an extraordinary search tool and an amazing group of engineers. All five Summize engineers will move to San Francisco, CA and take jobs at Twitter, Inc. This is an important step forward in the evolution of Twitter as a service and as a company.
Better Together
Summize is a popular service for searching Twitter and keeping up with emerging trends in real-time. Like Twitter, Summize offers an API so other products and services can filter the constant queue of updates in a variety of ways. The Summize service and API will be merged with our own and integrated under the Twitter brand.
A sketch of search inside TwitterThere is an undeniable need to search, filter, and otherwise interact with the volumes of news and information being transmitted to Twitter every second. We will be adding search and its related features to the core offering of Twitter in the very near future. In the meantime, everyone is welcome to access search.twitter.com—there’s no need for a Twitter account.
Our Commitment
Overall service performance remains our first and foremost priority. Adding five extremely talented engineers to our team serves to further this goal. The addition of search to our existing API creates an opportunity for more diversity within projects developed on the Twitter platform. We will continue to support existing applications built on the Twitter API and look forward to innovative new approaches.
91 Comments:
This sounds great, i cant wait to see where it goes.
So fired up about this. The Summize guys seem awesome.
Congrats and many happy and successful days ahead to the wonderful team. And the twitter users lived happiy ever after.
Congratulations! I'm using it to search for dirty words right now. Works great.
Bravo! Nice reward for loyal fans!
You deserve your success!
Congratulations to everybody involved. This is a great addition and along with the recent performance upgrades, Twitter is looking better every day.
"We introduced a feature called Track close to a year ago because we recognized filtering as a key component of the Twitter experience."
Track hasn't worked for a long time. Any comment on when it's likely to be fixed?
Congrats!!!!
Twitter + Summize = Awesomeness!!!
Congrats! This should add some wonderful depth to the world of twitter without relying on third parties.
You misspelled "Will Smith" (Line 11).
Awesome guys, keep up the great work!
Wow,
Don't give up on uptime and service and this was a great purchase... Forget about uptime and service and this was a last ditch effort to stay on top.
I still have twitterlove!!!
Awesome job, guys! Good luck with integrating this into Twitter.
We all knew it was going to happen but congratulations to both teams!
what will this mean for competing search services?
Sounds exciting! Congratulations! I hope it works out well for you and your users.
Congratulations! Would like to see you do something similar for hashtags as for search.
NOOOOOO!
Now Summize will start to fail, have tons of downtime, and worst of all, will completely drop their previous commitment to add MORE SERVICES to their search! Poor Jaiku, Pownce, and whoever else nobody cared about.
Tweetscan, you just got your lucky break to take over the Twitter & other site search market (they already search Identi.ca!), will you take it?
I think this is a great move. It just makes Twitter that much stronger in this market. Congratulations on such a good move.
What's next?
@dave re track: The good news is, this gives us the infrastructure to enable it again. We'll be working on turning Track back on ASAP.
I love summize. I have several of their search feeds in Google Reader. Great tool, should be a great addition.
Pleased as punch — Congrats, Twitter+Summize!
This is awesome as I have gotten used to using Summize to follow any hot story these days and my mode of finding people with similar tastes as mine. Congratulations!
Big grats to Abdur Chowdhury on the sale.
So you can buy a new service altogether but can't fix the IM service? Great priorities there.
i think this is a great acquisition and really compliment the twitter API and portfolio of products. looking forward to seeing what is coming next and how 'dailytwitter.com' can maybe build of the back of some of this.
dailytwitter
Can't wait to Twitterize (aka search via Twitter using Summize)...Congratulations to both companies...
Wow, that's great. This is a new Twitter emerging, one with cash and acquisition will!
I do video interviews, interested? (Mr Dorsey somewhat knows me, he was a victim of my video producing early days): interview@hyveup.com
@phil the IM service and the Summize purchase are separate efforts. One doesn't really compete with the other inside the company.
Awesome "official news". Can't wait to see what you roll out and how we can continue to use twitter as a great networking and marketing tool.
Congrats. Here's a Ruby wrapper for the Twitter Search API:
http://github.com/dancroak/twitter-search/tree/master
Great News! I just discovered hashtags and summize, and when I had twittered my way through the iPhone line, it was nice to be able to go back and get all of my tweets in one search so I could blog about it proper.
I'm glad that the summize search will be a first class citizen on Twitter.
I'm very excited by this. Summize has been indispensable to me of late. I look forward to seeing more awesome.
@gregpass: nice work dude. Glad to hear you are local @ioubeer.
Are we going to see a cap on the amount of API calls to search.twitter.com? Summize didn't really have a cap before and that's why I used them for things.
Hurray! I've been using Summize for quite a while now, and I'm glad to see the two sites have officially joined together as a team. Congrats. :)
This is really great news. This is what we expected so much as an integral feature of twitter. A wise move IMHO.
Why does Twitter use a Google service to serve their blogs?
Congrats on the big merge!
Perfect. Summize was easily one of the best Twitter services. You should snap up a few others (Like Tweetburner, Twitterfeed and TwitPic) and integrate them.
congrats!
will this also take care of twitter downtimes? :|
So thrilled for my ex-AOL buddies! Really couldn't have happened to a better bunch of guys ... and very much deserved. The media raked Abdur through the coals over the AOL search data thing. Meanwhile, the whole search industry benefits from the data and Abdur emerges as the consummate technologist. Also heartfelt congratulations to Jay and Greg!
This is awesome news.
Good job guys. Can't wait to see fully integrated API.
cool combination..
Congratulations! This is really great news.
the best!
A sketch of search inside Twitter
Wireframe using The summize or Google search.
Congrats to Jay, Abdur, Greg and Sarah! Look forward to seeing you in San Francisco.
outstanding move & we wish you much success!
As others have said, congrats to both teams on the exciting move. In the short term, how does this affect existing Summize API and feed users?
I'm excited about new toys of course...
but it seems like stabilizing Twitters current offerings should be the focus, before you got sticking more stuff into the mix. Perhaps use some of that 'we just bought someone' money to replace failing servers, or pay some overtime to rewrite broken code...
Just a thought, cheers to new search functions!
Flynn @ blackvatican.com
www.blackvatican.com
Mmm, seems a strange purchase to me. Aside from the traffic, i'm sure they could have built it cheaper.
Traffic is now redirecting to http://search.twitter.com/
This is a great match! Congrats to the both teams!
finally!! Nice one ;-)
That's what was missing
awesome feature.. one thing i always missed in twitter ... But now its thr keep it up guys
Abhinav Lal
was wondering, what will happen with the stuff in summize labs?
Congrats from a French guy in London :) I love Twitter, and I started to love Summize a few weeks ago ! This is the perfect match ! Long life to Twitmize ^^
Kisses,
Julien.
Can you buy Quotably too? The fewer flits to other services the better for me.
That is way good news...anything to make my life a little easier is well received. Congrats to all! twitter on my friends!
Awesome! Anything to make Twitter a better experience is cool with me.
congratulations to all you guys. summize is an awesome service -- i only hope that their API doesn't get restricted to the same restriction twitter's current API has (limitted calls within time periods).
I just launched a new site around the elections -- and it really depends on the Summize API: http://www.perspctv.com/
Sure sounds good to me. Moving onwards and upwards!
I would really like to see these developments, twitter is a pioneer on this messaging/microblogging so it is just and proper for it to maintain its leadership on this service. I hope to changes soon.
Congratulations!
Great news, but I think what is more amazing is how you've embraced a company that effectively stole and built on your product.
There are so many companies that would never show the grace or enthusiasm you guys have, or realised the potential of what the two can do together.
It'll make the world a better place. I can't wait.
Paul
http://newcastlecentric.com
Smart, smart, smart!
Yay! Can we focus on IM services now?
Wow, congratulations! Sounds like exciting news. By the way, how YOUNG is Jack?! Awww! ;)
awesome news. The addition of summize will bring some great things to twitter. I can't wait to see what you come up with. And with the API's I can't wait to see what I could think up as a developer :)
Great Match. The last days i really have been enjoying the new features.
I used to be able to use Summize at work, now it's part of Twitter domain I can no longer use it. Because Twitter is banned at work!
yay twitter! Now when you @ 'my name' i can use summize! this rawks
Go twitter go !
the people are behind you.
Congratulations! This is what the online community is all about - collaboration. Good luck.
Sounds great, good luck!
Neil D. Camenker
Yahoo, this is really great!!!
Very cool. Now I got to go and update my ebook :)
I love me some shake shack!
Sounds good friends :)
Great stuff guys. Just need more people to give their predictions now via twitter.
Great job folks, keep it going. Love it already.
I'm glad Twitter is improving each day!
twitter i love u! Congratulations :)
Congratulations! A good operation. Most often these types of transactions involving more benefits to users for owners
I made you a post on my blog :)
I Love Twitter
Hey guys,
I dont want to be a troll because i LOVE twitter and I find more uses everyday. However, before you introduce more traffic to your servers, do you think you could become better equipped for the existing traffic? When a service develops a reputation for downtime, I usually expect that would be their main concern. Please fix your capacity issues!!
Other than that congrats! Summize is a great service!
An even better match would be Twitter and the Yellow Bird Project. They have indie bands who design tshirts for charity. Don't know how it would work, but tweet tweet all the same: http://www.yellowbirdproject.com.
Well Done and All The Best For Your Future. Cheers KiwiKev
I dont think I still understand twitter, and its uses fully.
Summize is by far the most important "conversation gauging" tool out there right now. Keep it straight and simple guys. Good luck!
Good deal. Hope we can see a great integration!
Awesome Sketch! That's where all great ideas start out man. I have a ton of sketches like that. Now to form them with playdough...
I know I'm more than a little late but just want to saw congrats to Jay and team! Every search product you guys work on is worth watching. ~ex-AOLer
Two months ago @ev said "The good news is, this gives us the infrastructure to enable it again. We'll be working on turning Track back on ASAP."
Just wondering what ASAP actually means. It bugs me because track was a feature that I used a lot.
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