List of mergers and acquisitions by Twitter

This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information.

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters. Registered users can read and post tweets but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City, Boston, and San Antonio.

Acquisitions

Number Acquisition date Company Business Country Price Used as or integrated with Ref(s).
1 July 15, 2008 Summize Social search [1]
2 November 24, 2008 Values of n Social software development [2]
3 December 23, 2009 Mixer labs Location information engine 5.17 million (in stock)[3] [4]
4 April 9, 2010 Atebits Tweetie [5]
5 April 23, 2010 Cloudhopper Mobile messaging [6]
6 June 10, 2010 Smallthought Systems Databases and analytics Analytics tools [7]
7 December 21, 2010 Fluther Q&A service [8]
8 May 25, 2011 TweetDeck Web and desktop client US$40 million [9]
9 June 1, 2011 AdGrok Advertising [10]
10 July 5, 2011 BackType Social analytics [11]
11 August 8, 2011 Bagcheck Social sharing and discovery [12]
12 September 21, 2011 Julpan Real-time social search engine [13]
13 November 28, 2011 Whisper Systems Mobile privacy and security [14]
14 January 19, 2012 Summify Social news [15]
15 January 24, 2012 Dasient Internet security "Revenue engineering" team [16]
16 March 12, 2012 Posterous Blogging platform [17]
17 April 16, 2012 Hotspots.io Social media intelligence "Revenue engineering" team [18]
18 May 10, 2012 RestEngine Personalized email marketing [19]
19 June 4, 2012 Nclud Boutique design agency Design [20]
20 October 9, 2012 Vine [21]
21 October 16, 2012 Cabana Mobile app building software [22]
22 January 28, 2013 Crashlytics Crash reporting US$100 million [23]
23 February 6, 2013 Bluefin Labs Social TV analytics  USA US$80 million [24][25]
24 May 9, 2013 Ubalo Large-scale computing [26]
25 May 13, 2013 Lucky Sort Big Data visualization [27]
26 June 19, 2013 Spindle Labs  USA [28]
27 August 2, 2013 Locomatix  USA [29]
28 August 13, 2013 Marakana Training services [30]
29 August 28, 2013 Trendrr Advertising solutions [31]
30 September 9, 2013 MoPub Advertising solutions US$350 million [32]
31 April 15, 2014 Gnip Data reseller
32 June 5, 2014 Namo Media Native mobile advertising US$50 million MoPub [33]
33 June 5, 2014 TapCommerce Mobile app install ads [34]
34 July 17, 2014 CardSpring Payment application platform [35][36]
35 August 1, 2014 Mitro Password security [37]
36 January 20, 2015 ZipDial Mobile marketing and analytics  India [38][39][40]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Confirmed: Twitter Acquires Summize Search Engine". TechCrunch. 2008-07-15. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  2. ↑ "Twitter Buys Start-up's Assets; Hires Founder Rael Dornfest". WashingtonPost.com. 2008-11-24. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  3. ↑ Gannes, Liz. "Looks Like Twitter Paid Mixer Labs $5.17M in Stock". Giga Om. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Twitter Buys Startup To Help With Geolocation". Business Insider. 2009-12-23. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  5. ↑ "Twitter Acquires Tweetie". TechCrunch. 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  6. ↑ Thau, Kevin (2010-04-23). "Cloudhopping". Twitter. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  7. ↑ Van, Jennifer (2010-06-10). "Twitter Acquires Smallthought Systems to Integrate Analytics Tools". Mashable.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  8. ↑ "Fluther Flocks to Twitter". Twitter. 2010-12-21. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  9. ↑ Costolo, Dick (2011-05-25). "All Decked Out". Twitter. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  10. ↑ "Twitter buys AdGrok to build its monetization platform | VentureBeat | Social | by Tom Cheredar". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  11. ↑ "Twitter Acquires Social Analytics Platform BackType". TechCrunch. 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  12. ↑ "Down forever". BagCheck. 2013-09-24. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  13. ↑ "Twitter Acquires Julpan, The Startup By The Guy Who Helped Perfect Google Search". TechCrunch. AOL. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  14. ↑ McCarty, Brad (2011-11-28). "Twitter Acquires Whisper Systems". TheNextWeb.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  15. ↑ "Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Social News Startup Summify". TechCrunch. 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  16. ↑ Panzarino, Matthew (2012-01-24). "Twitter Acquires Internet Security Company Dasient". Thenextweb.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  17. ↑ "Welcoming the Posterous team to the flock". Twitter. 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  18. ↑ Rowley, Jason (2012-04-16). "Twitter Acquires Hotspots.io". Techli. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  19. ↑ "Twitter Buys Personalized Email Marketer RestEngine To Deliver Best Tweet Digests". TechCrunch. 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  20. ↑ "Twitter Acquires Nclud for International Facelift". WebProNews. 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  21. ↑ Ingrid Lunden (2012-10-16). "Twitter Acqui-Hires Mobile App Development Platform Cabana, Shuts It Down". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2014-10-22.
  22. ↑ Peter Kafka and Mike Isaac (2012-10-09). "Twitter Buys Vine, a Video Clip Company That Never Launched". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  23. ↑ "Twitter's Boston Acquisitions: Crashlytics Tops $100M, Bluefin Labs Close Behind". Xconomy. 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  24. ↑ "Twitter Makes Big Acquisition, Buys Social TV Analytics Company Bluefin Labs". Business Insider. 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  25. ↑ Rowghani, Ali (2013-02-05). "Welcoming Bluefin Labs to the Flock". Twitter. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  26. ↑ "Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo". TechCrunch. 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  27. ↑ "Twitter Acquires Data-Mining Startup Lucky Sort". DowJones.com. 2013-05-13. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  28. ↑ "Twitter to Acquire U.W.-Madison Start-Up Locomatix". Retrieved 2014-03-27.
  29. ↑ "Twitter buys Boston startup, Spindle Labs, its third local acquisition this year". Boston.com. 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  30. ↑ "Twitter Buys Open Source Training Company Marakana To Power New "Twitter University" For Engineers". TechCrunch. 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  31. ↑ "With Trendrr Acquisition, Twitter Continues To Beef Up Its Social TV Efforts". TechCrunch. 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  32. ↑ "Twitter Buys MoPub For $350M To Up The Ante In Mobile Advertising". TechCrunch. 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  33. ↑ "Twitter Buys Mobile Native Ad Startup Namo Media For Around $50M". TechCrunch. 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2014-07-05.
  34. ↑ "Twitter Acquires TapCommerce as It Rolls Out Mobile-App Install Ads". Wall Street Journal. 2013-06-30. Retrieved 2014-07-06.
  35. ↑ "Twitter Acquires Payment Startup CardSpring For Real-Time Commerce". Business Insider. 2014-07-17. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  36. ↑ "Welcoming CardSpring to the Twitter team". Twitter. 2014-07-17. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
  37. ↑ "Mitro is joining Twitter and is now open source". Mitro Labs. 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  38. ↑ "Twitter acquires Indian mobile platform startup ZipDial". The Next Web. January 20, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  39. ↑ Yuthika Bhargava. "Twitter acquires Indian start-up ZipDial". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  40. ↑ Saritha Rai (20 January 2015). "Twitter Acquires India-Based 'Missed Call' Startup ZipDial". Forbes. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

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