Twitter has acquired Spindle, a location-based social discovery engine.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Twitter confirmed its acquisition by tweet:
Welcome! “@spindle: Exciting news: Spindle has been acquired by @Twitter and joins the flock! http://t.co/zJdccsGKto”
— Twitter Comms (@twittercomms) June 19, 2013
Twitter has bought a number of companies like GhostBird, Ubalo, We are Hunted, Summify and Dasient. Lucky sot also added in this list.
Spindle says in a post on its blog:
We’re very proud to announce that Spindle has been acquired by Twitter.
We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: “What’s happening nearby right now?” Every time we’ve experimented and looked beyond local discovery, we’ve been amazed by the breadth and quality of content shared on Twitter. By joining forces with Twitter, we can do so much more to help you find interesting, timely, and useful information about what’s happening around you.
The Spindle team will be relocating and joining the Twitter team in San Francisco. As part of this change, we’ll be sunsetting the Spindle service today to focus on these new and exciting opportunities.
To our users, friends, families, investors, advisors, and everyone else: thank you for your support. It’s been an incredible journey and we couldn’t have gotten here without you.
– The Spindle Team
