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Speaking of Twitter acquihire technology, does anyone know whatever happened to do BackType?

They had really great twitter search technology and I was hoping it would be integrated into twitter when they were acquired a while back, but judging from Twitter's search results, it looks like it hasn't.

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Our product was ported and re-skinned inside Twitter's analytics offerings.

On the technology side a lot of our core tech is being used across different teams here. Storm is being used to help power applications for analytics, revenue, content discovery, anti-spam, search and more.

Also we're currently hiring engineers to work specifically on that technology so feel free to reach out to any of us from the BackType crew to get involved.

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