Twitter reportedly came close to buying Topsy -- the social analytics startup that Apple just scooped up for more than $200 million. In fact, “Twitter considered buying Topsy a number of times
throughout the company’s six-year history,” AllThingsD reports, citing sources. “Topsy was attractive to Twitter … because in some cases, Topsy’s search technology and
tools were even more effective than Twitter’s own in-house search tools, which have been a weak point for Twitter for years.”
Read the whole story at AllThingsD »
