List of mergers and acquisitions by Twitter
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Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 280 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, Seattle, Boulder, and London.
Acquisitions
Number | Date | Company | Business | Country | Price (USD) | Category | More information about the acquired or merged company | References | |
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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 | ![]() |
Mobile Twitter app (iOS) | [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 | ![]() |
$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 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 | [19] | |||||
20 | August 13, 2012 | Clutch.IO | A/B tester | Design | [20] | ||||
21 | October 9, 2012 | Vine | Video sharing service | $30 million | [21] | ||||
22 | October 16, 2012 | Cabana | Mobile app building software | [22] | |||||
23 | January 28, 2013 | Crashlytics | Crash reporting | $100 million+ | [23] | ||||
24 | February 6, 2013 | Bluefin Labs | Social TV analytics | ![]() |
$80 million | [23] | |||
25 | November 1, 2012 | We Are Hunted | Music service | ![]() |
[24][25] | ||||
26 | May 9, 2013 | Ubalo | Large-scale computing | [26] | |||||
27 | May 13, 2013 | Lucky Sort | Big Data visualization | [27] | |||||
28 | June 19, 2013 | Spindle Labs | Local discovery | ![]() |
[28] | ||||
29 | August 2, 2013 | Locomatix | ![]() |
[29] | |||||
30 | August 13, 2013 | Marakana | Training services | [30] | |||||
31 | August 28, 2013 | Trendrr | Advertising solutions | [31] | |||||
32 | September 9, 2013 | MoPub | Advertising solutions | $350 million | [32] | ||||
33 | March 31, 2014 | Mesagraph | Social TV | ![]() |
[33] | ||||
34 | March 31, 2014 | SecondSync | Social TV | ![]() |
[33] | ||||
35 | April 7, 2014 | Cover | Android lockscreen app | [34] | |||||
36 | April 15, 2014 | Gnip | Data reseller | $134 million | [35][36] | ||||
37 | June 5, 2014 | Namo Media | Native mobile advertising | $50 million | MoPub | [37] | |||
38 | June 5, 2014 | TapCommerce | Mobile app install ads | $100 million | [38] | ||||
39 | June 19, 2014 | SnappyTV | Live clipping service | [39][40] | |||||
40 | July 29, 2014 | CardSpring | Payment application platform | Commerce | [41][42] | ||||
41 | July 17, 2014 | Madbits | Deep learning | ![]() |
Twitter Cortex | [43] | |||
42 | August 1, 2014 | Mitro | Password security | [44] | |||||
43 | October 25, 2014 | Twitpic | Photo-sharing website | [45] | |||||
44 | January 20, 2015 | ZipDial | Mobile marketing and analytics | ![]() |
[46][47][48][49] | ||||
45 | February 11, 2015 | Niche | Advertising and software | [50][51] | |||||
46 | March 9, 2015 | Periscope | Live-video streaming | $50–100 million | [52] | ||||
47 | April 2, 2015 | TenXer | Collaboration platform | under $50 million | [53] | ||||
48 | April 28, 2015 | TellApart | Advertising | $479 million | [54] | ||||
49 | June 17, 2015 | Whetlab | Machine learning | ![]() |
Twitter Cortex | [55] | |||
50 | October 21, 2015 | Fastlane | Deployment services | ![]() |
[56] | ||||
51 | October 21, 2015 | ZeroPush | Push notification services | ![]() |
[57][58] | ||||
52 | April 8, 2016 | Peer | Employee and manager feedback tool | ![]() |
[59] | ||||
53 | June 20, 2016 | Magic Pony Technology | Advanced video upscaling, compression and enhancement | ![]() |
$150 million | [60] | |||
54 | December 1, 2016 | Yes, Inc | Social apps developer | ![]() |
[61] | ||||
55 | June 21, 2018 | Smyte | Spam & fraud prevention service | ![]() |
$65 million | [62] | |||
56 | April 17, 2019 | Highly | Highlight sharing application | [63] | |||||
57 | June 3, 2019 | Fabula AI | Geometric deep learning & fake-news detection | ![]() |
[64] | ||||
58 | November 21, 2019 | Aiden.ai | AI-powered digital marketing | ![]() |
[65] | ||||
59 | February 19, 2020 | Chroma Labs | Visual Stories App | ![]() |
[66] | ||||
60 | May 12, 2020 | CrossInstall | Programmatic interactive mobile ads at scale | ![]() |
[67] | ||||
61 | December 14, 2020 | Squad | Real-time social video | ![]() |
Squad was a technology startup providing live group video calling with cowatching. It was acquired by Twitter in December 2020.[68][69]It was founded by Esther Crawford, Ethan Sutin, who raised $7.2 million in seed funding from investors that included Y Combinator, First Round Capital, and Betaworks.[70] Squad's technology allowed users to view synchronized content during group video calls. Squad's core features will be integrated into the Twitter app. | [71][72] | |||
62 | January 2021 | Breaker | Social podcasting | ![]() |
Twitter Spaces | [73][74][75] | |||
63 | January 6, 2021 | Ueno | Creative agency | [76] | |||||
64 | January 25, 2021 | DriveScale | Storage Technology | ![]() |
[77] | ||||
65 | January 26, 2021 | Revue | Newsletter platform | ![]() |
[78][79] | ||||
66 | October 20, 2021 | Sphere | Group chat | ![]() |
[80] |
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