Sommify buy Twitter, the feed aggregator
Summify is an aggregation service that, through a particular algorithm, is able to extract the most relevant content on Facebook profiles, Twitter and RSS feeds, presenting them in a daily summary email, web, or through an application for the iPhone. The company, of Romanian origin but recently transplanted to Vancouver, has been acquired by the giant Twitter, and all of its functionality will be removed in the coming weeks in light of recent assimilation.
All subscriptions to the service were closed today and its application is no longer available in the American iTunes store. Although the summary will be sent to current subscribers, Summity said that at one point, the entire service will be closed. From that moment forward, users will have to look elsewhere for reaping salient information relating to their different feed because the transfer to Twitter is immediate.
If the user says the future is clearly dysfunctional, is not the same for members of Summify that will become part of the team growth of Twitter in the San Francisco office, to work exclusively on their products. The purpose of this acquisition by Twitter seems to be linked to the will of the popular microblog to “clean” information chaos that inevitably creates within social networks: less noise, more substance.
