Twitter Acquires Social Analytics Startup Hotspots.io

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26 points·aritraghosh007··8 comments

With 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.

Am 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.

I thought Backtype now powers search.twitter.com, is that incorrect? But yeah, it's still really limited.

I'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).

When 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.

To 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.

Except it's not just a job, in all likelihood they get a payout from being acquired as well.

Yes. There's even a name for it: It's called an "acqui-hire".

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