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Was reported that Twitter bought the company Mixer Labs, a certain software package GeoAPI. This geographic service for developers, which is used in the development of add-ons for Twitter.

The acquisition looks very valuable for Twitter. Co-Founder and CEO Mixer Labs Gil Elad (Elad Gil) – a veteran of Google, as well as one of the founding team Google Mobile. Under “About Us” at Mixer Labs identified seven staff members, but this is clearly not an exhaustive list.

According to Evan Williams (Evan Williams), Director General of Twitter, «when you specify a specific location on the map in his mikroblog appears many advanced features – from the news of interest to find friends and Occupation.”

Judging by the enthusiastic speeches leadership, Twitter satisfied with the purchase, and plan to exploit the technology to display the events on the ground full.

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