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Meet-Up App Twist Gets $6M

  • Dow Jones, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:43 AM

Twist just launched version 1.0 of its app with a $6 million in funding from such investors as eBay co-founder Jeff Skoll and Bridgescale Partners. What is Twist? Let’s call it a micro-event manager. Quite simply, the iOS app addresses “the pain point of having to wait on someone, or making someone wait on you,” as The Next Web explains. “Twist is a little bit like Glympse, in that it allows you to tell someone where you are. But instead of just showing them a location on a map, Twist will figure out exactly how long it’s going to take for them to get to the intended destination.”

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