Twitter has been more aggressive on the acquisition front lately, of course spurred by the massive amounts of cash it obtained from its investors. Another trend has been pull back to its SMS roots by purchasing a start-up. Bring these together and you wind up with Twitter’s recent acquisition, a company called Cloudhopper, which the former says would assist it process the increasing volume of text messages it’s pushing. This is 5th acquisition, once acquiring smaller startups such as Summize, Values of n, Mixer Labs as well as Tweetie maker Atebits.
“Over the last eight months we have been working with a startup called Cloudhopper to become one of the highest volume SMS programs in the world – Twitter processes close to a billion SMS tweets per month and that number is growing around the world from Indonesia to Australia, the UK, the US, and beyond,” Kevin Thau, Twitter’s Director of mobile products and partnerships, wrote.
“To help us further grow and scale our SMS service, we are happy to announce the acquisition of Cloudhopper, a messaging infrastructure company that enables Twitter to connect directly to mobile carrier networks in countries all over the planet,” he announced.
The details are rare on how precisely Twitter will use their new technology. Seeing as both companies have been combining force for a couple months now, Twitter might end up integrating the technology and further developing it. Unfortunately, there is no financial details were revealed, however since this was a two-person company, it likely wasn’t much of a stretch for Twitter.
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