Summify acquired by Twitter

Will they delete all their user data, shut down their service and present this as "Great News!"? /checks. Yes, yes they will.

Good for those guys for living the dream. Too bad that dream didn't also result in job creation in Vancouver, Canada.<p>There is quite a bit of noise in media about the economic benefits of investing in foreign entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, it strikes me that these guys chose the quick win and we will now see those economics benefits move south of the Canadian border.

Well good for them. They used to rent space in our office, and they were a great bunch of guys, quite clever and always focussed on making a good service for their users. Twitter is lucky to have them.

This seems much more like a talent acquisition vs a company being acquired.

Twitter only acquires companies that match /^Summi\w+$/i

I don't get it, why are Twitter shutting it down? Makes little sense to me.<p>I guess there are <i>some</i> cases (like Wordly ----&#62; Google Docs) where that happened and was good in the end?<p>Most seem to mean the product is completely dead.

Users abandoned by Summify should check out our alternative - a newsletter based on reader engagement: <a href="http://www.scoopinion.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.scoopinion.com</a>

not to be confused with Summize. (also taken over by twitter, becoming early incarnation of twitter search back in the day)

How much?

What was the buy-out?